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Vladimir Putin’s Syria cease-fire is a trick

By Tom Rogan
Published February 26, 2018 6:22pm ET
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Vladimir Putin’s Syria cease-fire is a trick
Members of the Syrian Civil Defense group help residents during airstrikes and shelling by Syrian government forces, in Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus, Syria. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP) | Uncredited

Don’t be relieved by Vladimir Putin’s cease-fire in Syria’s eastern Damascus suburb of Ghouta.

The cease-fire, which goes into effect on Tuesday, will last five hours each day and will supposedly operate alongside a humanitarian corridor for civilian evacuation.

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