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February 23, 2015

U.N. Envoy Visits Damascus in Effort to Reach Aleppo Truce 
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The top U.N. envoy on Syria is in Damascus today in a bid to halt the
government's bombing of Aleppo. Staffan de Mistura said last week he had
received assurances from the regime of Bashar al-Assad to stop attacks
on Aleppo for up to six weeks. If implemented, it could be one of the
most significant diplomatic breakthroughs of Syria's four-year civil
war. Mistura will go on to Turkey in a bid to secure an agreement with
opposition leaders, who have not yet signed on. Over the weekend,
Turkish forces carried out a raid inside Syria to rescue a group of its
soldiers guarding an ancient tomb.

 

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