Confliction

But overriding all of that, she said, was ensuring that humanitarian workers could deliver aid safely and were protected by the normal rules of de-confliction.

Thus, Israel was able to sustain a de-confliction channel with the Russian commanders in Syria; and the Russians have an active interest in restraining Iran’s use of Syrian territory.

I am sure you are one of hundreds on our campus that tussle with this confliction.

The fact that there has been no exchange of fire between these formations suggests that the US and Russians have coordinated their respective withdrawals and advances as part of their ‘de-confliction’ process.