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Despite a tentative ceasefire and truce negotiations being discussed by groups across Syria, terrorist groups not party to the ceasefire continued their attacks on Saturday, primarily aimed at civilians.
Although the Russian-US negotiated ceasefire largely held on its first day, a series of blasts occurred across Syria by terrorist groups not party to the negotiations.
In Damascus, the Jaysh al-Islam group, linked to al-Nusra Front and not subject to the ceasefire, shelled residential areas. Another group not subject to the ceasefire, Ahrar al-Sham, is also active in the area.
"Terrorists in the Jobar and Duma neighborhoods fired mortars at Damascus residential areas. There have been no reports of dead or wounded among the civilian population," a military source told RIA Novosti.
A military source speaking to Syrian television also urged area residents to pressure the terrorist groups responsible to prevent them from ending the ceasefire.
Daesh Attacks ContinueThe
Daesh terrorist group not subject to the ceasefire also continued assaults in the Hama province and the eastern Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor.
In the city of Deir ez-Zor, mortar shelling of two neighborhoods by Daesh killed three children, with another 12 persons injured.In the Hama province, Daesh suicide bombings killed a total of six people, including two soldiers killed by a car bomb at a military checkpoint. Another suicide bombing carried out on a motorbike killed four people, and a suicide attack on a highway injured one person.
In northern Syria, Daesh attacked a town held by the majority-Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces. The attack, near the Turkish border, was repelled by the Kurdish self-defense forces (YPG) with the aid of US-led coalition attacks on Daesh positions.
Comment: The peace and quiet in Syria, though very much deserved, was short-lived thanks to these psychopaths. But of course this is exactly what was expected. As a Syrian officer
stated, "In some areas there may be a ceasefire, but
in most of Aleppo and surrounding countryside, it's Al-Nusra and ISIS, and we won't stop fighting until we get rid of them."
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"The militants opened mortar fire in the Sheikh, Ashrafiyeh and Kurdish neighbourhoods of Aleppo. The shelling was conducted from the Bin Ziyad area, which is where groups that do not agree with the truce are located. Shelling from their side started right after midnight," the source said, adding that in Homs "militants opened fire on [Syrian] army positions."
According to the source, the militants are from the Liwa al-Sultan Murad group which has refused to comply with the ceasefire because of its alliance with al-Nusra Front. Liwa al-Sultan Murad controls one of Aleppo's central areas called Bustan al-Pasha.
Militants Affiliated With Al-Nusra Front Open Fire Amid Syria Ceasefire
The Syria truce coordinating center has detected shelling of residential areas in Damascus carried out by terror groups, said Sergey Kuralenko, the head of the center launched by Moscow at Khemim airbase earlier in the week. Over 20 blasts were registered earlier Saturday over a period of five hours, Kuralenko said. The information on the shelling was immediately passed to the US coordination center in Amman, the military said, RIA Novosti reported. There were no immediate reports of any casualties, according to SANA news agency.
The Syrian capital came under shelling just a few hours after a nationwide ceasefire was introduced.
Over 20 blasts in Damascus as 'terrorists shell residential areas' - Russian military
Comment: The peace and quiet in Syria, though very much deserved, was short-lived thanks to these psychopaths. But of course this is exactly what was expected. As a Syrian officer stated, "In some areas there may be a ceasefire, but in most of Aleppo and surrounding countryside, it's Al-Nusra and ISIS, and we won't stop fighting until we get rid of them."
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