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Ceasefire backed by Russia, Turkey takes effect
[Al Jazeera] A ceasefire across Syria has gone into effect after the government and some armed opposition groups accepted a truce agreement brokered by Russia and ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... Thursday's ceasefire began at 12am local time (22:00 GMT), and, if it holds, will be followed by peace negotiations in Kazakhstan's capital Astana within one month. Turkey and Russia have pledged to act as guarantors to the cessation of hostilities. Previous UN-backed attempts to end the Syrian civil war, which started as a largely unarmed uprising against  Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... in March 2011, have failed and often led to fierce fighting. The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) group and Jabhat Fateh al-Sham ...formerly al-Nusra, the current false nose and mustache of al-Qaeda in the Levant... group [formerly al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front] have been excluded from the ceasefire, according to reports. Posted by: Fred 2016-12-30 |
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