The cease-fire is set to take effect July 9 at noon Damascus time. Word of the cease-fire has emerged as President Donald Trump is meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The officials weren’t authorized to discuss the cease-fire publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
The deal marks a new level of involvement for the U.S. in trying to resolve Syria’s civil war.
A separate deal to create “de-escalation zones” was brokered Russia, Turkey and Iran, but not the U.S. Follow-up talks this week in Kazakhstan to finalize a cease-fire in those zones failed to reach a deal.
The U.S. and Russia have been backing opposing sides in Syria’s war.
This is nothing new in case anyone was deluding themselves into believing it is. There have been several ceasefires, all obviously broken to continue the fighting and all accompanying finger-pointing and blame. I’m not impressed with this. This is peanuts…but tRump will think he did a big thing here. It wasn’t tRump. This was Putin’s freebie. After that, tRump is on his own, unless sanctions are lifted for Russia, per Putin’s request.
My Question: What did Trump give up to Russia to accomplish this? /cynicism
Did anybody in Syria agree to this ceasefire?
Once you’ve agreed on a ceasefire, don’t forget to tell the people who are actually holding the guns.