President Barack Obama’s administration tried for months to broker a durable cease-fire in blood-soaked Syria, practically begging Russia to come to terms but ruling out the possibility of using U.S. military force against the Syrian regime to back up its diplomatic pressure.
Early Friday, a truce was set to take hold in Syria, but the United States was left out of the process that led to it. Instead, Russia, working with Turkey, took the lead, not long after its warplanes helped the Syrian regime of Bashar Assad crush rebels in the northern city of Aleppo.
Russian President Vladimir Putin himself has warned …read more
Source: European Voice
