U.S. Secretary of State <a gi-track='captionPersonalityLinkClicked' href=/galleries/search?phrase=John+Kerry&family=editorial&specificpeople=154885 ng-click='$event.stopPropagation()'>John Kerry</a> talks to reporters in the Treaty Room at the State Department May 4, 2016 in Washington, DC. Kerry announced that the United States and Russia have agreed to extend the Syria truce to Aleppo and said that President Bashar al-Assad should start a political transition by August 1 to leave office and end the 5-year-old civil war.