“We are closely following this agreement and are waiting for its details to know the conditions of its implementation”, Kodmani said by telephone.
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The deal does not, however, address the inherent contradictions that have scuttled past efforts to end the fighting – including the question of why Assad’s government would cooperate with a process that the United States insists is meant to lead to his departure, or whether Russian Federation supports that goal. The Military Media said late Saturday that the truce is an opportunity that everyone should take for the interest of the Syrian people.
At least 90 civilians were killed in a series of airstrikes on rebel-held areas in the provinces of Aleppo in northern Syria and Idlib in the northwest, a monitoring group reported.
Around 100 people were killed in air strikes in rebel held areas of Idlib and Aleppo on Saturday (10 September), hours after the USA and Russian Federation announced a 10-day truce – beginning on 12 September – to ease the suffering of civilians.
Insurgents are reportedly planning a counter-offensive.
The attacks, which killed more than 80 people in the rebel-held cities of Idlib and Aleppo, compounded skepticism expressed by the opposition that this deal will work where others have failed to end the war.
US Secretary of State John Kerry (left) and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov shake hands at the end of a press conference closing meetings to discuss the Syrian crisis on September 9, 2016, in Geneva.
The ceasefire begins at sundown tomorrow, Kerry said, coinciding with the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday.
Activist Yasin Abu Raed, who is based in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, said the situation inside the local hospitals there is “miserable”.
Fresh bombardment also hit the battleground city of Aleppo on Sunday, the Observatory said, a day after 12 civilians were killed in unidentified raids there.
Syrian state media, quoting what it called private sources, indicated that President Bashar al Assad’s government backed the U.S. -Russia deal that will see a week-long cease-fire come into effect Monday but sources indicated that fighting had not yet abated.
“We hope there will be a ceasefire so that civilians can get a break”.
Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group, which is fighting for the embattled regime in Syria’s civil war, says it supports the recently announced cease-fire agreement, but vowed to continue fighting against the Islamic State group and al-Qaida’s affiliate.
The Iranian spokesman, however, underlined that the ceasefire does not apply to the terrorist groups, including Daesh (ISIL), al-Nusra Front or other newly-born offshoots, calling on the worldwide community to keep battling against the Takfiri extremists seriously, without any consideration and incessantly.
The Syrian government in Damascus endorsed the deal, state news agency Sana reported.
The new ceasefire, agreed as part of a landmark deal brokered by Russian Federation and the U.S., was set to begin on Monday.
“If the ceasefire is successfully implemented nationwide, then this is a real, new chance for the humanitarian access so urgently required for hundreds of thousands of people in need”, Steinmeier said.
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“It requires unimpeded and sustained humanitarian access to all of the besieged and hard-to-reach areas including Aleppo”.
