The United States and Russia agreed that the Syrian cessation of hostilities should be extended for another 48 hours, the US State Department said on Wednesday.
The cessation of hostilities, brokered by US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday, went into effect on Monday night.
State Department spokesman Mark Toner said Kerry and Lavrov had spoken by telephone earlier on Wednesday and agreed it was worth extending the truce.
"As part of the conversation they agreed to extend the cessation for another 48 hours," Reuters cited him as saying.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the Syrian conflict through contacts on the ground, said no deaths from fighting had been reported in the first 48 hours of the truce.
