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Reuters: Jordan confident Russia will preserve southern Syria truce

Published May 28, 2018 at 8:10 pm

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Jordan is confident that Russia will not allow President Bashar al-Assad’s government to wreck a ceasefire in southern Syria, a Jordanian official said on Monday, days after Washington said it feared that the Syrian government plans an offensive there.

With Syrian government forces now in their strongest position since the early months of the seven-year civil war, the southwest is one of the few parts of the country still in the hands of enemies of President Bashar al-Assad.