This morning, the always-unsettled Middle East became a little less unsettled. But, it seems, only a little. On Saturday morning, the U.S. envoy to Syria, Tom Barrack, announced that a cease-fire agreement had been reached between Israel and Syria.
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U.S. envoy to Syria Tom Barrack said early Saturday that Israel and Syria had agreed to a ceasefire following Israel’s intervention this week in fighting between Syrian government forces and rival armed groups.
A cease-fire between Israel and Syria – but the other elements in this conflict, the local Bedouin clans in Syria and the Syrian Druze minority, apparently don’t feel bound by any such agreement.
The announcement came as renewed clashes erupted between Druze groups and Bedouin clans and Syria’s president said he would send troops back in to quell the fighting, which has left tens of thousands of people displaced in a worsening humanitarian crisis.
Barrack said in a