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Published time: 6 Aug, 2017 16:50 An inaugural event to curb murders in one of America’s most violent cities was interrupted by the killings of two men on Saturday, though organisers insist that the ‘Baltimore ceasefire’ has not ended. Community leaders had called for a 72-hour ceasefire in the crime ravaged Maryland city, hoping to […]
Thomson Reuters A confidential U.S.-Russian cease-fire agreement for southwest Syria that went into effect Sunday calls for barring Iranian-backed foreign fighters from a strategic stretch of Syrian territory near the borders of Israel and Jordan, according to three diplomatic sources. President Trump hailed it as an important agreement that would serve to save lives. But […]
Published time: 9 Jul, 2017 20:20 As the ceasefire agreed by Russia, the US and Jordan takes effect in southwestern Syria, people in the Quneitra province have shared their hopes of peace and normality finally prevailing. However, they fear the militants could violate the truce “every second.” “We hope the truce will hold and peace […]
Published time: 9 Jul, 2017 09:54 Edited time: 9 Jul, 2017 10:02 A major ceasefire deal agreed upon earlier by Russia, the United States, and Jordan has taken effect in the southwestern part of Syria. The truce to end hostilities and deliver aid to war-torn areas will be enforced by the three countries’ militaries. Read […]
REUTERS/Hosam Katan The United States, Russia and Jordan reached a ceasefire and “de-escalation agreement” for southwestern Syria on Friday, as the US government under President Donald Trump made its first attempt at peacemaking in the country’s six-year-old civil war. The ceasefire, due to start at noon Damascus time (0900 GMT) on Sunday, was announced after […]
UN Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura has praised the joint efforts of Russia and Turkey to broker peace in Syria, and has urged the international community to support it. “The ceasefire is holding more than previous ones,” de Mistura said at the Munich Security Conference, “and in my modest opinion has, if we all look […]
The violent escalation of the Ukrainian conflict in recent days has led to thousands of truce violations and “indiscriminate” shellings by both sides, Alexander Hug, the principal deputy chief monitor of the OSCE mission in Ukraine, told RT. The mission has registered an “uptick in violence starting from the early morning hours on Sunday”, January […]
Ukrainian forces are using heavy artillery to shell Donetsk residential areas in a clear violation of the Minsk agreements, the Russian Foreign Ministry has said, adding that Kiev seems to favor a military resolution of the Ukrainian conflict. The recent escalation in the Ukrainian South East is a “direct consequence of Ukraine [Kiev] breaking its […]
