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A tense Russia-Turkey truce in Syria halts bombing campaign

by Associated Press
| March 6, 2020 3:31 AM

BEIRUT (AP) — Idlib's skies were completely free of Russian and Syrian government warplanes for the first time in weeks Friday, and residents reported a relative but tense calm as a cease-fire deal brokered by Turkey and Russia took hold in Syria's northwestern province.

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