A Ceasefire in Syria?
Why has it been so difficult to find peace in Syria, and what are the complicating factors which are getting in the way of a deal?
In early September the US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced a new agreement to reduce hostilities in Syria - the second attempt this year to initiate a ceasefire in a 5 year long civil war which has so far cost around half a million lives and displaced millions more people.
Within a week of the announcement, the US had bombed President Assad's troops - an accident, it says - and Russia was accused of blowing up an…
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