US negotiates cease-fire to Turkish invasion Trump approved earlier this month
Vice President Mike Pence announced a solution to a crisis Donald Trump started.
Vice President Mike Pence says that Turkey has agreed to a cease-fire in Syria.
Pence spoke after a high-level delegation of U.S. officials met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, Turkey.
Pence says there will “a pause in military operations for 120 hours” to allow the U.S.-allied Syrian Kurds to withdraw.
The vice president says the U.S. and Turkey have “mutually committed to peaceful resolution and future for the safe zone.”
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