Should US back UN plan for cease-fire in Aleppo?

UN Syria envoy says that "assurances will not be enough" to end fighting; Turkey’s border a "strategic problem" in anti-Islamic State campaign.
Rebel fighters of al-Jabha al-Shamiya (the Shamiya Front) sit in an armoured vehicle along a main road between Raitan and Bashkuwi villages, north of Aleppo February 19, 2015. Battles in and around the Syrian city of Aleppo have killed at least 70 pro-government fighters and more than 80 insurgents after the army launched an offensive there, a monitoring group said on Wednesday. REUTERS/Rami Zayat (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT MILITARY) - RTR4Q8LA
Rebel fighters of al-Jabha al-Shamiya (the Shamiya Front) sit in an armored vehicle along a main road between Raitan and Bashkuwi villages, north of Aleppo, Feb. 19, 2015. Battles in and around the Syrian city of Aleppo have killed at least 70 pro-government fighters and more than 80 insurgents after the army launched an offensive there, a monitoring group said. - REUTERS/Rami Zayat
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De Mistura: "no illusions" about challenges ahead

UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura told the UN Security Council on Feb. 17 that there was a “glimmer of hope” as the Syrian government said it would be willing to halt aerial bombing and artillery shelling of Aleppo for a period of six weeks.

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