BEIRUT: A ceasefire in Syria brokered by Russia and the United States is due to begin at sundown on Monday, after scores of civilians were killed in a bloody weekend of strikes.

The truce, announced after marathon talks by the Russian and US foreign ministers, has been billed as the best chance yet to end Syria’s five-year civil war estimated to have killed more than 290,000 people.

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