PARIS — The United States said Monday that a new agreement with Russia would replace localized, piecemeal cease-fires in Syria with a revived, nationwide truce, as world leaders struggled to get faltering peace talks back on track.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, in Paris for meetings on the Syria crisis, said Russia had also committed to limiting the Syrian government’s ability to fly over civilian areas. The Syrian opposition accuses President Bashar Assad’s military of violating the truce the U.S. and Russia brokered in February by bombing those areas. Kerry said the U.S. and Russia had shared their announcement with …read more
Source: PBS
