Erbil (CNN)The US and Turkey announced a five-day break in fighting in Northern Syria today.
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The draft calls for a two-week break in fighting to allow aid into the besieged country.
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A break in fighting has given residents a chance to share their thoughts, and their doubts, about the country's future.
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The United Nations has called for an international humanitarian operation to relieve areas under attack, involving a 48-hour break in fighting agreed to by all parties.
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HAPPENING LATER Syria ceasefire ends The five-day break in fighting in Northern Syria ends today as Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recip Tayyip Erdogan meet to discuss the region's future.
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Syria's cessation of hostilities explained CNN senior international correspondent Clarissa Ward traveled to rebel-held territory around Aleppo days ahead of the agreed break in fighting to witness the impact it had once it was implemented Friday.
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If the cease-fire actually goes into effect—and there are plenty of things that could happen in the next week to prevent that from happening—it will be the first break in fighting since the Syrian civil war began in 2011.
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The announcement came shortly before the United Kingdom introduced a draft resolution on Yemen at the UN Security Council on Monday in which it calls for a ceasefire in Yemen and a two-week break in fighting to allow aid into the besieged country.
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On 8 July, de Valera met General Nevil Macready, the British commander in chief in Ireland and agreed terms. The IRA was to retain its arms and the British Army was to remain in barracks for the duration of peace negotiations. Many IRA officers interpreted the truce only as a temporary break in fighting.
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Kizirian ordered that flares should be fired at irregular intervals to would illuminate the scene and distract the enemy. The idea proved successful and the newly arrived Marines soon had the situation under control. During a break in fighting at Okinawa, Kizirian was photographed by a member of the press. The picture that later appeared on the cover of the June 24, 1945 issue of The New York Times Sunday Magazine.
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' The civil war lasted until the Abuja Accords of August 1996. The AFL was confined to an enclave around the capital during the conflict, and did not play a significant part in the fighting. Elections in July 1997 finally brought Taylor to power. Under the accords, which led to a break in fighting in 1996 and the Liberian general election, 1997, ECOMOG was to retrain a new national army based on fair ethnic and geographical representation.
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The Prussian port of Emden was also recaptured, securing supply from Britain. In fact, the British government, which had previously been opposed to any direct involvement on the continent, took the opportunity of the 1758–59 winter break in fighting to send nine thousand British troops to reinforce Ferdinand.Dull p.119-123 The French crown also sent a reinforcing army, under Contades, hoping this would help to secure a decisive victory, swiftly concluding the costly war, and forcing the Allies to accept the peace terms France was seeking.
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While scholars continue to debate whether or not the tune was original or based on an earlier melody, few researchers doubt that Butterfield is responsible for the current tune. Another, perhaps more historically verifiable, account of "Taps" first being used in the context of a military funeral involves John C. Tidball, a Union artillery captain who during a break in fighting ordered the tune sounded for a deceased soldier in lieu of the more traditional—and much less discreet—three volley tribute. Army Col. James A. Moss, in an Officer's Manual initially published in 1911, reports the following: > During the Peninsula Campaign in 1862, a soldier of Tidball's Battery A of > the 2nd Artillery was buried at a time when the battery occupied an advanced > position concealed in the woods.
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