War monitors, civil defence say Syrian regime shelling in Hama and Idlib violates reported Moscow-Ankara ceasefire
Syria has been locked in a vicious civil war since early 2011 when the Assad regime cracked down on pro-democracy protests with unexpected ferocity.
Russian news agencies cited the Russian military as saying on Wednesday that Russia and Turkey brokered a complete ceasefire in Syria’s Idlib province between Syrian regime leader Bashar al Assad's forces and the opposition. Aerial strikes on Monday killed at least 25 people, mostly civilians, in northwestern Syria in the sixth week of a Russian-led military offensive that has so far killed hundreds of civilians, according to residents and civil rescuers.Plumes of smoke rise following reported Syrian regime forces' bombardment on the town of Khan Shaykhun in the southern countryside of the opposition-held Idlib province.
Turkey had complained to Moscow, which backs the Assad regime, while Russia had said the onus was on Ankara to rein in the opposition.In September 2018, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in Sochi, Russia signed a memorandum of understanding creating a demilitarised zone between rebels and regime forces along Idlib’s border.
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