Syria truce: UN hails 'significant drop' in violence
Source: Al Jazeera
The UN hails significant reduction in violence over the first 24 hours of a new ceasefire brokered by the US and Russia.
Aid convoys are waiting at the Turkish-Syrian border for the government in Damascus to give authorisation to enter Syria, the UN has said, as a fragile ceasefire that came into effect at sundown on Monday appeared to be largely holding across the country.
The UN envoy for Syria on Tuesday applauded the "significant drop in violence", more than 24 hours after the declaration of a truce deal brokered by US and Russia.
"Today, calm appears to have prevailed across Hama, Latakia, Aleppo city and rural Aleppo and Idlib, with only some allegations of sporadic and geographically isolated incidents," Staffan de Mistura told a news conference in Geneva.
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Meanwhile, Assad says he will "liberate" all of Syria. 
Kerry talks of maybe the last chance for a "united Syria." But who would condemn children to go back to living out their lives in a "united Syria" still ruled by the regime that killed and maimed their family and friends with barrel bombs? 
Partition it already. Fuck Assad and Putin.
