Syrian Kurdish regional interior minister Canaan Barakat, speaking in Qamishli on Sunday to announce the terms of the truce, said 17 civilians, 7 Asayish members and 3 YPG members had been killed in the clashes.
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Also on Friday, a government plane crashed southeast of Damascus, and the Islamic State (IS) group said its fighters downed the plane and captured the Syrian pilot. Regional Kurdish security forces and pro-Syrian government forces declared a ceasefire in Qamashli, northeastern Syria, on Friday after a three-day outbreak of violence killed 26 people.
Hope does not loom on the horizon, especially with the government talking about a new attack against the areas of Aleppo under anti-government forces control.
“The ceasefire ended when the first bomb hit the city”, Muhammed Mashhad, a civil defence volunteer, said. “The regime is intensifying its air strikes, which have reached around 20 a day”.
France’s foreign minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault, warned that the negotiations over Syria’s political future have entered a “danger zone”.
DAMASCUS ــ At least 13 people were killed after army forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad pounded the city of Duma in the eastern suburbs of Damascus in southern Syria with heavy artillery, local sources reported on Saturday. The Observatory said all the dead were civilians. The deal excludes al-Nusra Front and Daesh.
Violence dropped across the country, including in Aleppo city, where residents cautiously began shopping in open-air markets and taking their children to parks.
But Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said Saturday the truce had effectively collapsed. “What’s on many people’s minds is the border crossing with Turkey”, he said. The government delegation is nonetheless set to meet with United Nations envoy Staffan De Mistura Monday.
“The key to ending these attacks, and to making progress in the talks, lies in Moscow”, said Meslet.
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Today after the conflict, some 300,000 are estimated to live in rebel-held areas that have sustained heavy casualties and massive destruction because of government bombardment that has already pushed many to flee.
