Ceasefire deal on Syria? - A welcome step

Sometimes it is necessary to clutch at straws, and even if yesterday’s announcement from US secretary of state John Kerry, that he and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov have reached a provisional agreement on Syria, falls into that category, it must be welcomed and supported.

Every age seems to have its catastrophe, one that shows humanity at its worst and most destructive.

The anarchy destroying so much of the Middle East is the platform for today’s catastrophe, a catastrophe animated by the barbarism of Islamic State and driven by the innumerable factions trying to dominate their particular regions.