Hezbollah’s media arm known as the Military Media says the “allies of Syria” abide by whatever the Syrian government decides.
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“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.
The group vowed to repel any attack its members are subjected to during the truce.
Russian Federation and Iran are both providing crucial military support to President Assad against rebels and jihadi fighters in Syria’s civil war.
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 Nusra Front, an al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria which has recently changed its name to Jabhat Fateh al-Sham.
Key to the deal is the delivery of desperately needed aid to civilians in rebel-held areas of Syria’s second city Aleppo, which are under siege by government forces. -Russian agreement was reached to try and end the violence in Syria.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 58 people were killed in raids on various neighbourhoods of Idlib city, including a market, but it was not immediately clear who carried out the strikes.
Contrasting casualty figures are common in the aftermath of large attacks in Syria.
The United States and Russian Federation, backing opposing sides in the war, announced a deal in the early hours of Saturday including a nationwide ceasefire effective from sundown on Monday, improved aid access and joint targeting of banned militant Islamist groups.
It was the third such incident in six days, and came soon after Russian Federation and the United States announced a deal on a new Syrian ceasefire, set to come into force on Monday.
The Geneva negotiating session, which lasted more than 13 hours, underscored the complexity of a conflict that includes myriad terror groups, shifting alliances and the rival interests of the USA and Russia, Saudi Arabia and Iran, and Turkey and the Kurds.
In the capital, Damascus, the government endorsed the deal, the state news agency Sana reported.
Sep 11, 2016- Air strikes on rebel-held areas of Syria reportedly killed at least 100 people hours after the U.S. and Russian Federation announced plans for a truce.
Aleppo, a major battleground in the conflict, has seen intensified fighting between government forces and the opposition in recent months, worsening the humanitarian situation there.
It added the agreement is “critical” for ending the fighting throughout Syria, and specifically Aleppo.
“It is profoundly in the interests of the United States to target al Qaeda, to target al Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria, which is Nusra, an organisation that is opposed to a peaceful transition, an organisation that is an enemy of the legitimate opposition, an organisation that is now plotting attacks beyond Syria’s borders, including against the United States”.
Previous peace efforts have crumbled within weeks, with the United States accusing Assad’s forces of attacking opposition groups and civilians.
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Moscow supports President Bashar al-Assad and Washington supports the opposition, saying Assad must go.
