Syrian cease-fire
A cease-fire in Syria, brokered by Turkey and Russia, is set to take effect on Friday. Earlier truces have not held for long in the Syrian civil war, which is nearly six years old. Holly Williams reports from Istanbul.
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A cease-fire in Syria, brokered by Turkey and Russia, is set to take effect on Friday. Earlier truces have not held for long in the Syrian civil war, which is nearly six years old. Holly Williams reports from Istanbul.
Aid workers at the Al Kamuna refugee camp in northern Syria are setting up new tents after thousands of civilians evacuated Aleppo in recent days. CBS News correspondent Holly Williams visited the camp Monday, finding refugee families in despair as the war rages.
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Rebel forces reached a cease-fire deal Tuesday to evacuate the city of Aleppo, effectively surrendering to the Syrian government. The New Yorker contributor Ben Taub has been covering the war in Syria and he joins CBSN with more on the fall of Aleppo.
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Syria's largest city, Aleppo, has been devastated by the country's civil war. Syrian and Russian forces appear poised to reclaim the city from U.S.-backed rebels while residents continue to flee. Debora Patta has more on the fall of the city.
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In Syria, the Assad regime, with the help of Russia, is systematically destroying much of its largest city. Rebel-held eastern Aleppo is staggering under the worst bombing of the civil war, now in its sixth year. Elizabeth Palmer reports.
Rebel shelling killed eight school children in Aleppo on Sunday, while a barrel bomb launched by regime forces killed a family of six. The number of civilians caught in the crossfire in war-torn Syria continues to grow as hospitals have become targets. Jonathan Vigliotti has more.
In eastern Aleppo, 275,000 civilians are under attack from Syrian and Russian bombers and cut off from all aid according to the United Nations. As Elizabeth Palmer reports, the bombing looks like a deliberate campaign of terror to force civilians to flee.
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The cease-fire in Syria's civil war seems to be holding, but two convoys of aid for the besieged city of Aleppo are stuck just inside the Turkish border. U.N. officials say disagreements and security concerns are holding them up. Elizabeth Palmer reports, as she and her crew travel to Aleppo.
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The United States and Russia are unlikely wartime allies and their joint plan of attack against jihadists in war-torn Syria will unfold in two phases meant to test if a marriage on the battlefield is even viable. The first phase begins Monday at sundown - the time when the Russian-backed Assad regime and the U.S.-backed rebels agreed to a reduction in violence, specifically airstrikes. Jonathan Vigliotti has the latest from our London Bureau.
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Until now, the U.S. has merely backed Kurdish troops fighting against the Assad regime's forces in Syria's civil war. But as fighting heats up, American forces may be pulled directly into the fray. Holly Williams has more.
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GOP Sen. John Curtis of Utah asked a Senate panel to subpoena Trump Jr. and Hunter Biden for testimony as part of a probe into the "use of presidential family relationships" for private financial benefit.
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