The morning after the United States and Russia agreed on a cease-fire plan for Syria ’s nearly five-year-old war, a dozen Syrians huddled at the border gate here on Friday delivered a unanimous verdict. Asked if the bombing would stop, they jerked their heads up and back in unison: Syrian for “No way.” Waiting in a cold drizzle, the men, who had come to Turkey to earn money, were trying to cross the border back into Syria to bring their families out to safety. But they found themselves locked out, just as tens of thousands of civilians fleeing the most intense bombing of the war are locked in. Forces backing President Bashar al-Assad continue to push north to the border, helped by Russian airstrikes. Western and Arab backers of insurgent groups are declining to increase military support. Turkey refuses to open the border. So the deal […]