8: Regional Powers React to Tenuous Gaza Ceasefire and Hostage Deal. Bill Roggio and Husain Haqqani discuss how the Gaza agreement is viewed regionally as a tenuous ceasefire and hostage deal, not a path to peace. Saudi Arabia was displeased, seeking a long-
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🗓️ 21 October 2025
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| 0:23.8 | I'm John Batchel with my good colleagues, Bill Rajo, Senior Fellow Foundation for |
| 0:27.8 | Defense of Democracy. He keeps a long war journal in the San Antonio, a senior fellow at the Hudson |
| 0:32.7 | Institute, former ambassador from Pakistan to the United States. Bill, the ceasefire from last weekend |
| 0:39.5 | along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, a wide, wide ceasefire with mountainous terrain, with flat |
| 0:46.1 | terrain, very rocky, from what I can see from pictures. Has it held together of there |
| 0:51.6 | been incidents in the last week? the ceasefire which hussein rightfully |
| 0:56.3 | noted was brokered by turkey and kutter i completely agree with hussein these are the two new |
| 1:01.9 | problem makers for supporting the islamists in the middle east i mean you know if anyone would |
| 1:06.6 | it and it used to be the saudi's were the prime issue, at least on the Sunni side of the jihadi |
| 1:12.6 | coin. |
| 1:13.2 | And now Turkey and Qatar have replaced them. |
| 1:15.6 | The ceasefire is held. |
| 1:17.8 | But what hasn't stopped is the attacks. |
| 1:21.5 | Remember, the fighting has taken place between Afghanistan and Pakistan because the movement |
| 1:27.1 | of the Taliban in Pakistan |
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