Turkey and Russia announced a ceasefire in northwest Syria, agreeing to establish a security corridor with joint patrols
The announcement came after a nearly six hour long meeting between the two countries' leaders in Moscow. The ceasefire begins at midnight local time and freezes an advance by the Syrian government that has triggered a humanitarian crisis.Children bearing the brunt of latest escalation in Syrian civil warThe security corridor will be six kilometers to the north and to the south of the strategic M4 highway running through Idlib province.
A regime attack killed at least 33 Turkish soldiers last week.At least 14 people including children were killed earlier on Thursday in a"double tap airstrike" on a chicken farm housing internally displaced families, according to medical groups on the ground in northwest Syria.
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