U.S. and Russia reach Syria cease-fire deal

Secretary of State John Kerry announces a Syria cease-fire deal with Russia
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The United States and Russia reached a cease-fire agreement over the conflict in Syria early Saturday morning, a deal made after days of intense negotiations between U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

"Today the United States and Russia are announcing a plan which we hope will reduce violence, ease suffering, and resume movement toward a negotiated peace and a political transition in Syria," Kerry said. "We are announcing an arrangement that we think has the capability of sticking, but it is dependent on people's choices."

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.