What is to yet to see, is if the agreement will hold or not.
Turkey and Russia have agreed on a proposal for a ceasefire in Syria. Any ceasefire would exclude groups labeled as terrorists by the two countries, allowing attacks to continue against Islamic State and others. Turkey’s ultimate goal is unclear, and is made more complex by the imminent arrival of the US president-elect, Donald Trump, who has yet to formulate a coherent Syria policy. Prabir Purkayastha talks about the role of America in the future of Syria, seeing how this is the first agreement without U.S.