The US and Russia agreed on Friday to establish a cease-fire in southern Syria, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson announced at the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany. Media reported that the cease-fire, which begins Sunday at noon local time, marks the nations’ first joint effort under the Donald Trump administration to curb the violence in Syria’s ongoing, six-year civil war. Tillerson said President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin reached the “defined agreement” during a lengthy two-hour conversation for which both he and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov were present. This comes as previous ceasefires in Syria have collapsed or failed to reduce violence for long, and it was unclear whether this deal would fare any better.
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