OSLO, Dhu-AlQa'dah 19, 1437, August 22, 2016, SPA -- The Philippine government and Maoist-led guerrillas opened peace talks in Oslo on Monday to try and end nearly five decades of conflict, Reuters reported. Both sides, who agreed a truce over the weekend, sat facing each other in the Holmenkollen Park Hotel's "Nobel" room, named after the Nobel Peace Prize, with photographs of former winners including the Dalai Lama on the walls. "This is a conflict that has been lasting for far too long," Norwegian Foreign Minister Boerge Brende told the meeting, saying there now seemed to be a "historic momentum" building to end the conflict. --SPA 11:43 LOCAL TIME 08:43 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w