![]() is if (any) incidents will be quickly brought under control and contained," De Mistura said, adding that "a military response should be. Moscow and Washington, co-chairs of the task force that backs opposing sides in Syria, have set up rival offices to monitor the truce along with a UN operation centre and would be first to deal with any infractions. "I plan to reconvene the suspended Intra-Syrian Talks in Geneva on 7 March" - UN Syria Envoy Staffan de Mistura /HFE3zLN9dy- UN Geneva February 27, 2016 United Nations envoy Staffan de Mistura said peace talks would resume on March 7 if the agreement holds and more aid is delivered - a key sticking point in negotiations for a truce.įighting appears to have "calmed down", he told reporters shortly after midnight, adding that a special task force would meet in Geneva on Saturday to monitor the ceasefire. "If it continues like this, maybe we can go home." ![]() "I can't hide the fact that I'm happy the war has stopped, even for a few minutes," 24-year-old regime soldier Abdel Rahman Issa said from a battlefield on the eastern outskirts of Damascus. The nationwide cessation of hostilities is the first pause in five years of a civil war that has claimed more than 270,000 lives. "For the first time in years, calm prevails." Early reports after Syria truce begins /1C3PPONbqT- AJE News February 27, 2016 Monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was quiet in the north of Latakia province and in the central provinces of Homs and Hama. On the stroke of midnight, firing stopped in suburbs around the capital and the devastated northern city of Aleppo, AFP correspondents said, after a day of intense Russian air strikes on rebel bastions across the country. This is a moving account of the reality of war and the terrible personal cost to a 17-year-old recruit.DAMASCUS - A landmark UN-backed ceasefire came into effect in Syria on Saturday as a special task force led by rivals Moscow and Washington prepared to begin monitoring the fledgling truce. The graphic content and strong language make it unsuitable for younger children, which is a shame. I would highly recommend this book to older readers. His letters home to his sister Floss are scattered through the narrative and are carefully cheerful and full of wry observations. The poets add their sombre voices to Jack’s earthy, plain speech. The story is all the more extraordinary because it is true.Įach chapter begins with an excerpt from a war poem. Jack and his comrades share a brief friendship with the German soldiers and gifts of cake, cigarettes, German sausage and chocolate are exchanged. The British and German soldiers called a truce for a few wintery hours, to sing carols and play football in No Man’s Land. The story ends with the extraordinary events which happened on Christmas Day 1914, when peace broke out on the battlefield. ![]() The book does not tackle the wider sweep of the war or its politics but focuses on Jack and his friends, and packs a much greater punch because of it. The graphic details of death and the squalid conditions in the trenches are harrowing, and Riordan does not spare us the full horror of the soldiers’ often brutally short lives. It is told in a colloquial style, and some of the language is strong. ![]() His very personal and moving story covers the early months of the war. ![]() While there, Jack recalls how, as a 17-year-old soldier, he is sent to fight in the trenches. Jack Loveless, veteran and war hero, takes his grandson to visit the allied cemeteries in Northern France, 50 years after the end of the First World War. ![]()
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