It wouldn't end all the violence that's torn at Syria for years now, but two key parties — President Bashar Assad's government and a main opposition group — have agreed to a truce, according to a joint statement by the U.S. and Russia. Despite its potential landmark status, the "cessation of hostilities" agreement is being met with skepticism, in part because it doesn't include two powerful jihadist groups, ISIS (known as Daesh in Syria) and Jabhat al-Nusra, and also because Assad recently said he reserves the right "to attack factions he calls terrorists," as NPR's Parallels blog has noted. The truce is set to begin at midnight Saturday (Damascus time); it was arranged by the U.N.-sponsored ...
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