“Everyone should understand that this cease-fire is valid for Syria, for the parties fighting against each other in Syria”.
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Feb 24, 2016- The bomber behind a deadly blast in the Turkish capital Ankara was Turkish-born, security officials say, not from Syria as the government initially said. The following day Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu laid the blame for the incident on a Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) fighter, Salih Necar, hailing from the northeastern Syrian city of Hasakah.
The United States and Russian Federation have announced plans for a cessation of hostilities in Syria to take effect starting on Saturday.
De Mistura spoke to reporters Thursday in Geneva. Turkey’s insistence that the PYD and YPG are the Syrian branch of the PKK has provoked a rare rift with its North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ally the United States. The Syrian government has accepted the terms on condition that military efforts against Daesh and al-Nusra front group continue. Islamic State “doesn’t live in a vacuum, ” she added, saying that the militants have been receiving support not only from countries in the region, but also “political support of the United States and the West”.
Last week’s bombing killed 29 people, at least 20 of them military personnel.
SANA says that during the call with Putin on Wednesday, the Syrian president confirmed Damascus’ readiness to support the implementation of the agreement for a “cessation of hostilities” in Syria. They urged a resumption of U.N.-sponsored negotiations as soon as possible.
“This is a critical situation at the present moment with millions of people in need and the objective of course of this trip is to scale up our operations and to bring as good as we can more help to Syrian people”, Maurer said.
Laerke said by phone Tuesday that the deliveries follow on similar convoys last week to five other besieged towns. It is hoped it will allow for further aid to be delivered to desperate Syrians.
Agit claimed Turkey has “outright hostility against the Kurdish nation”, reiterating that relations between the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and Turkey “serve the Turkish state not the (Kurdish) national interests; it will even damage it”.
“It’s only [when] the Russian forces came to Syria that the oil trucks that were going to Turkey were attacked”.
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman, Maj.-Gen.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, have held a telephone conversation to discuss issues connected with the proposed upcoming cease-fire in Syria.
“The regime and Russian Federation did not respect the decisions taken before”, Cavusoglu said. The cease-fire will not cover the Islamic State group or the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front. An industry source said security forces are clearing mines in the Sirnak area through which the pipeline runs.
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The Islamic State group has captured an important town in northern Syria, cutting supply lines for government forces between the northern city of Aleppo and central and western Syria.
