| Saladin and Richard certainly knew about truce and parley in one era of technological equivalence between their two civilisations. |
| Both sides accuse each other of violating the truce agreement signed last year. |
| With the frontline safe, regimental staff officers come up on visits and the truce continues through Boxing Day. |
| A truce with a leading militant group a few months ago ran into trouble, with hopes of peace receding in South Asia's most troubled area. |
| A smile, a white flag of truce on a stick, and an unarmed handshake for the first official he met. |
| But the truce has been severely strained by nightly fighting between the two sides. |
