Cease-fires bring patchy peace to Damascus neighborhoods
Syrian opposition sources says rebels are only agreeing to regime-led local cease-fires because the alternative is starvation./ Abu Fahed’s home is rubble and one of his sons languishes in jail, but the fighting that tore his Damascus neighborhood apart has stopped. A shaky local truce between the Syrian government and rebels is on./ “We hope that it will get better, that people from both sides can live together again,” he says. It’s a hope, but a faint one. Many of the truces established in flashpoint areas around Damascus in the last few ...
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