Russia, Iran and Turkey set up a three-way mechanism to ensure compliance of all sides.
Philip Issa - Associated Press
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Syrian government cuts water supply to its own capital after battle with rebels
The cut-off is a major challenge to the government’s effort throughout the nearly 6-year-old civil war to keep the capital as insulated as possible.
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Evacuation begins in eastern Aleppo
Syrian TV showed live footage of a long convoy of ambulances and green buses driving out of Aleppo.
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An Aleppo cease-fire collapses and with it, hope of evacuation
Activists and fighters trapped in the opposition’s last sliver of territory in Aleppo said pro-government forces had struck their district with dozens of rockets since mid-morning.
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Peace still possible in Syria, says Foreign Minister
“What Russia is sponsoring and doing is not counter-terrorism, it’s barbarism,” said U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power.
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The latest move to bring peace to Syria involves a weeklong ceasefire
Monitoring groups and state media reported clashes up until the final minutes, and the most powerful rebel groups having yet to commit to the truce.
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Haunting image of Syrian boy rescued after an air strike reminds the world of Aleppo’s misery
The image of the stunned and weary-looking boy, covered in dust and with blood on his face, encapsulates the horrors inflicted on the war-ravaged northern city.
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Iraqi, Lebanese militias deploy to Syria’s Aleppo
The reinforcements will shore up Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces as fighting over control of the city intensifies.
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No food in first aid convoy to reach Syrian town since 2012
British ambassador to the U.N. said the aid was “too little, too late.”
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Syrian Kurds say they will declare federal region in Syria
Salih Muslim, the co-president of the PYD, said the only way forward was a decentralized Syria—any formula for that would be acceptable to the Kurds.