President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin have agreed to intensify diplomatic and military cooperation to implement a ceasefire and aid delivery in Syria, the Kremlin said early Sunday.<br />A statement from Putin’s office said that Obama initiated a telephone conversation between the two, but did not say when it had occured.<br />The White House made no initial comment.<br />The statement came amid unconfirmed reports that an initial shipment of humanitarian aid had reached the rebel-held Douma area, east of the Syrian capital of Damascus, which has been cut off by government troops since 2013.<br />International powers supporting the two sides of Syria’s civil war agreed Friday on a ceasefire and aid delivery to besieged areas.<br />The Syrian government news agency, SANA, said that the Syrian Red Crescent had delivered medicine and food.
