According to UN Special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, the Syrian government and the largest rebel faction, the Free Syrian Army (FSA), have both agreed to a temporary ceasefire for the duration of the Eid al-Adha holiday, meaning the potential for a multi-day pause in the civil war.
Brahimi has expressed hopes that the temporary truce will gave both sides time to consider the value of negotiation, and that it might lead to a new round of settlement talks, though whether or not that happens remains to be seen.
It may be hard to even keep the ceasefire going for the Eid, as the al-Nusra faction, one of the more aggressive Islamist blocs in the civil war, has rejected the idea of a ceasefire, and has promised to continue its offensive.
That could make it difficult for the other factions to sustain their ceasefires, as the Syrian military will inevitably retaliate against al-Nusra attacks, and potentially draw other rebel blocs, which were respecting the ceasefire, into the battle as well.
Hillary Clinton will never allow this!
They are not split, they are fighting what they think is their enemy, while their real enemy giving them all kind of weapon to fight the Syrian people. Religiously however they are split, that part of the story is correct, yet if the side that is talking about democracy understood what democracy is then they wouldn't started the war to begin with, they wouldn't asked the Saudis or Qatari brutal, a stone aged regimes for help and would have negotiated in a democratic way when it was offered by the Syrian government, signed by the Syrian people, in that regard if there ever was a thought about democracy in State US Department and its leaders, they wouldn't want to have a nation building or changing a legitimate governments anywhere, nor they would helped the tyrants as Saudis or Qatari or any other tyranny in the region for the turmoil in Libya and now Syria. We are heading for a more police and dictatorial states, state department with its bureaucrats and hypocrites are the core of this social problem facing people everywhere, so is the most of Democratic party hand in hand with Neo Liberal Fascism in Europe, especially the new comer, Swedish government.
Rebel factions? You mean all those foreigners?
The truce may not held… According to this opinion, Turkey will strike before the US election since Mr. Obama wants to position himself as a decisive leader.