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Five fighters killed in NW Syria clashes despite truce

March 18, 2020 03:07 AM


Clashes in northwestern Syria killed four government fighters and a rebel on Tuesday despite a 12-day-old truce, a war monitor said.

According to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the clashes occurred in the south of Syria’s last rebel bastion of Idlib, a region covered by a ceasefire that entered into force on March 6.

Before dawn on the truce’s first day, an exchange of fire killed six regime fighters and nine jihadists, but belligerents have largely respected it since.

Despite Tuesday’s clashes, regime and Russian aircraft remained absent from the skies over the region, Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman said.

The ceasefire agreed by regime ally Russia and rebel backer Turkey had raised hopes it would stem a months-long government assault on the rebel bastion, which is home to some three million people.

The Moscow-backed military offensive on the jihadist-dominated region had killed around 500 civilians and displaced almost one million people since December.

Residents have said they are sceptical about the ceasefire holding however, especially as Damascus has repeatedly said it would eventually bring all of Syria back under its control.

Syria’s civil war has killed more than 380,000 people and displaced millions since starting nine years ago with the brutal repression of anti-government protests.

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