“The stakes are enormous. More than 250,000 people have died in Syria in the past five years. Half the country has been uprooted and fled. And unless drastic changes happen soon, the death and destruction will continue unabated. Midnight Friday could be a game-changing point in the Syrian civil war. That’s when a ‘cessation of hostilities’ is set to go into effect.”
Source: Syria’s cessation of hostilities, explained – CNN.com