One of the main rebel groups in eastern Ghouta said Moscow, which had agreed to a "de-escalation zone" in the enclave, would accept only accepting a rebel capitulation.
For another, according to BuzzFeed News, the Pentagon hasn't been told much of anything about keeping tabs on the three provinces of the new "de-escalation zone" in southwest Syria, Daraa, Sweida, and Quneitra, to make sure the ceasefire is actually being honored.
For another, according to Buzzfeed News, the Pentagon hasn't been told much of anything about keeping tabs on the three provinces of the new "de-escalation zone" in Southwest Syria, Daraa, Sweida and Quneitra, to make sure the ceasefire is actually being honored.
Russia and Turkey agreed to support the formation of "de-escalation zones" in Syria, saying they both wanted to bolster the fragile truce in the war-ravaged country.
Eastern Ghouta, the site of a deadly sarin attack by the Assad regime in 2013, is supposed to be one of the "de-escalation zones" under a peace plan agreed to by Russia, Turkey and Iran in May last year.
"These reports are extremely troubling and make a mockery of the so-called 'de-escalation zones' intended to protect civilians from such bombardment," said the commission's chair Paulo Pinheiro in a statement, referring to promises made by Russia to reduce violence in opposition-held areas including Idlib and Eastern Ghouta.
"These reports are extremely troubling and make a mockery of the so-called 'de-escalation zones' intended to protect civilians from such bombardment," said the commission's chair Paulo Pinheiro in a statement, referring to promises Russia made to reduce violence in opposition-held areas including Idlib and Eastern Ghouta.
The agreement to create de-escalation zones in the southwest, announced following the July 7 Trump-Putin meeting at the G-20 summit in Hamburg, has been hailed by Trump as a positive start to the tentative new cooperation with Russia in the conflict.
The sell-off was sparked by an escalation in the euro zone sovereign debt crisis, fears the United Statescould be heading for a recession and the loss of the world's biggest economy's triple-A debt rating.
The escalation of the euro-zone crisis in the autumn made firms more cautious.The audacity of hopeGrowing confidence about the world economy might persuade firms to loosen their purse-strings.
This brings up several unanswered questions for Clinton or any of the candidates who have called for military action against Assad, and are also now blindly calling for a no-fly zone and an escalation of the already tragic war.
