Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Thursday in Ankara, Turkey, that the U.S. and Turkey had agreed to an immediate cease-fire in Syria that would allow Kurdish forces to withdraw from the border.
Pence added that the cease-fire meant that the U.S. would not place further economic sanctions on Turkey, and that it would remove existing sanctions once the cease-fire was implemented.
President Trump, hailing the agreement in advance, called it “great news” and said “millions of lives” would be saved: