Posted on 07/08/2017 9:40:49 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
A day before a new ceasefire deal takes effect in southwestern Syria, the concerned areas are relatively calm with the exception of sporadic strikes by the Syrian regime, a monitoring group have said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday, the Syrian regime shelled two villages in the northern countryside of Daraa, one of three provinces affected by the ceasefire.
The Observatory said at least one person was killed and a total of 16 such bombs were dropped in the area, wounding several.
The US-Russian-Jordanian brokered deal is to be enforced by midday on Sunday, in the provinces of Daraa, Sweida and Quneitra in the southwest, along the Jordanian border.
The agreement was the result of a two-hour – first of a kind – meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart, Donald Trump, on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg on Friday.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had said that Russian military police in the area would monitor the ceasefire.
The deal is separate from an agreement that Russia, Turkey and Iran struck earlier this year to try to establish “de-escalation zones” in Syria.
The US, wary of Iran’s involvement, stayed away from that effort. Follow-up talks this week in Kazakhstan were unable to produce agreement on finalising a cease-fire in those zones.
A new round of UN-sponsored peace talks is to be held in Geneva on Monday. Those talks, aimed at forming a transitional government and ‘combatting terrorism’, have made little progress since they resumed earlier this year.
Turkey? Who knows? Erdogan did not look happy at G20 meetings.
Syria Ping
good job Trump !
Yep, he is full of surprises. And CNN and the press is destroying themselves trying to make him look bad.
Trump is totally killing them.
Turkey's Presidential Guards were Not Allowed At the G-20 Summit in reaction to what Erdogan's security detail did during his visit to Washington...Germany told Erdogan they were not welcomed.......also they denied Erdogan's request to hold a rally of his supporters on the sidelines during the Summit that he requested .........Furthermore His bosom buddy Obama wasn't there to coddle with as before....
Remember this display!
When do the Syrians go back?
Oh I don’t think that will be for sometime....although some not happy in the EU have returned. But if here you know darn well they’ll never leave here.
That was my first thought too. As soon as this is really over; when do all the Syrian refugees in the US and Europe go back home where they are needed to rebuild their country; especially since most of them are fighting/working age men. Exactly the people needed to do the hard work of rebuilding.
Can they start packing right now?
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
SOROS
I did not know that, thanks.
Kurdistan would only be viable, long-term, if they had their own access to the sea. Currently, they control a narrow corridor along Syria's north to the sea. If Assad is smart, he would let them keep that, and have the Kurds serve as a buffer between him and Turkey.
I think Obama was there, just not part of the meeting.
This said it all
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DEOofsJXgAEphTT.jpg:large
If you look at the map of secured territory , one fact meets the eye.
The kurds presently occupy more territory than Assad/Syria
https://isis.liveuamap.com/en/time/06.06.2017
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