latest newsAssad Army in Syria’s army says it will abide by a two-day ceasefire in the city of Aleppo agreed between the United States and Russia. A statement from Damascus’s army command said, the truce will be in place for 48 hours from 1:00 am today. Washington and Moscow agreed earlier yesterday to work with Syria’s warring parties to extend a shaky truce to Aleppo, which has seen more than 280 civilians killed in fighting since April 22.

Last week, Washington and Moscow agreed to monitor a truce between President Bashar al-Assad’s loyalist forces and opposition in rebels in Latakia and Eastern Ghouta. But the divided city of Aleppo, a major commercial centre in the north of the country, was excluded from their efforts and fierce fighting continued there.