Kerry said the “bedrock” of the new deal was an agreement that the Syrian government would not fly combat missions in an agreed area on the pretext of hunting fighters from the banned Nusra Front, an Al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria.
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Recent government gains in Ramousah have reopened the main route into the government-held west, and let forces backing President Bashar al-Assad encircle the city’s rebel-held east.
But the commander and other rebel leaders stopped short of fully rejecting the agreement’s interim cease-fire, which is slated to come into effect in stages beginning on Monday at sunset.
The Observatory and the LCC reported airstrikes in other parts of the country including the northern province of Aleppo that has been the center of violence in recent weeks.
A barrage of air strikes on rebel-held areas in Syria killed scores of people just hours after Assad’s government approved the truce deal on Saturday.
Some of Saturday’s air strikes are believed to have hit the towns of Anadan and Hreitan near Aleppo, Syria’s second city.
A Jabhat Fatah al-Sham official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, said that if the group is hit by Russians and Americans, it will strike back “immediately”.
Four more people have died of injuries sustained in airstrikes on a marketplace in Idlib in north-western Syria, bringing the death toll to 62 civilians, a monitoring group says.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran has always welcomed the establishment of ceasefire in Syria and easier access to the humanitarian aid for the whole people of the country”, Qasemi said.
Washington has said indiscriminate bombing of civilians by the Syrian army would have to end under an enforceable deal.
A Syrian civil defence member and a volunteer carry a little girl rescued a reported air strike on the rebel-held Salihin neighbourhood in Aleppo.
The violence were a serious blow to US efforts to end the fighting with its new plan, which US Secretary of State John Kerry said was “an arrangement we think has the capability of sticking”.
Insurgents are reportedly planning a counter-offensive.
Kerry added that this accord will help access to humanitarian aid to afflicted areas, such as Aleppo.
“A violation by the regime should be met with a perhaps military response”.
If the truce holds from tomorrow, Russian Federation and the United States will begin seven days of preparatory work to set up a “joint implementation center”, where they will share information to distinguish territory controlled by Nusra from that held by other rebel groups.
Rebel factions in Syria are prepared to honor a U.S. -Russian-brokered cease-fire while communicating deep reservations about its terms, according to a leader in the powerful Ahrar al-Sham militia.
Then, the USA and Russian Federation would begin intelligence sharing and targeting coordination, while Assad’s air and ground forces would no longer be permitted to target the al-Qaida-linked militant group of Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, formerly known as the Nusra Front.
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The HNC’s Kodmani said the opposition would “do our part” to see that rebel groups break ranks with the jihadists if the truce held. Fighting on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights was the source of an errant artillery shell falling inside of Israeli territory.
