Despite a pervading sense of scepticism, the Syria truce agreement has held for 24 hours after it was imposed on all players in the war by US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov.
No deaths were reported from February 27 to 28, which is a major breakthrough after five years of war and a daily death toll of anywhere between 30 to 100.
As it is, the truce remains shaky and legally non-binding, and it excludes powerful players like Jabhat Al Nusra, the Al Qaida branch in Syria, and Daesh.
The US-Russian-brokered “cessation of hostilities” in the Syrian battlefield has survived its first day rather impressively.