Today thousands of civilians worldwide are maimed or killed each year by these indiscriminate weapons of war.

While it has long been a gleam in the Russian eye, it has been a thorn for Western diplomacy.

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The truce does not include the Islamic State group or al-Qaida's branch in Syria. Several previous ceasefires all collapsed, some of them in a matter of days.