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Experts Doubt Aleppo "Regime of Calm"

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Posted: May 6th, 2016

Strikes and continuous violence have strained the fresh Aleppo cease-fire the United States and Russia brokered this week, leaving experts doubtful any cessation of hostilities will hold.

The U.S. on Wednesday announced the “regime of calm” had been extended to the city of Aleppo and its surrounding districts, where a surge in fierce violence over the past two weeks has killed some 300 people. Although the U.S. had hoped it would be “open-ended,” in the words of State Department spokesman Mark Toner on Thursday, Bashar al-Assad’s regime said the truce in Aleppo would last just 48 hours.

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