In Syria, a tenuous ceasefire brokered between the U.S. and Russia appears to be holding, although some violations have been reported. The ceasefire, however, has opened up a rift between Secretary of State John Kerry and the Pentagon, which is pushing back on Kerry’s plan to share information with Russia in the campaign against ISIS in Syria. Meanwhile, U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein slammed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for a wide range of human rights abuses on Tuesday.

Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein: “This is a state led by a medical doctor, and yet is believed to have gassed its own people, has attacked hospitals and bombed civilian neighborhoods with indiscriminate explosive weapons, and maintains tens of thousands of detainees in inhuman conditions. Words cannot convey how profoundly I condemn this situation. The government which is responsible for some of the gravest violations on record in the history of this council has regularly sent notes verbales to my office reporting abuses by armed groups, but it offers no possibility whatsoever for independent scrutiny.”