They announced that they would suspend, as of midnight Thursday, attacks on most nonmilitary targets.

But they pointedly said they would not yet suspend attacks on electrical transmission lines, which have constituted a major form of economic sabotage.

US and Iraqi troops suspend attacks for 24 hours.

Armed supporters of the demonstrators said on Saturday that they have suspended attacks on security forces while the monitors are in Syria.

The rebels last week offered to suspend attacks on Government officials as part of a peace proposal.

He hopes to gain strength as Israel makes concessions, and for now, the main Palestinian factions have voluntarily suspended attacks.

We hope that the Palestinian militant groups that say they are suspending attacks on Israel for a while actually do so.

Hamas and Islamic Jihad announced in June they were suspending attacks for three months.

The pullback followed declarations by the leading Palestinian factions that they were suspending attacks against Israelis.

They were freed after the group said it would abide by the factions' decision to suspend attacks.