In a sharp deterioration of relations, the United States followed through on Secretary of State John Kerry’s threat to suspend bilateral contacts with Russia about Syria:
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The cease-fire agreement, which Kerry negotiated with Russia, collapsed after a few days as Syria and its Russian ally intensively bombed rebel-held parts of Aleppo, the northern Syrian city that has become a focus of the war in Syria.
According to the New York Times article, Roughly 275,000 civilians are trapped in those areas, including an estimated 100,000 children. Hundreds of people there have been killed in the past week.
The suspension occurred after Russia, decided to send more war planes to Syria, warned the U.S. not to attack the Syrian regime and halted cooperation on a joint U.S.-Russia program for disposal of weapons-grade plutonium.
The U.S. will withdraw personnel that it had dispatched to take part in the creation of a joint U.S.-Russia center that was to have coordinated military cooperation and intelligence had the cease-fire taken hold. The suspension will not affect communications between the two countries aimed at “de-conflicting” air operations over Syria
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