“There are no warplanes in the sky and airstrikes have stopped.” Syria Russia UN
Displaced Syrians demonstrate along the border with Turkey near the town of Atme in the northwestern Idlib province on August 30, 2019 demanding Ankara help stop a deadly Damascus regime offensive in the region. – Demonstrations on the Syrian side of the border in Idlib province came shortly before Damascus’ ally Russia announced a ceasefire for the region of some three million people, to take effect from the following morning.
Russia-backed regime forces have been pressing an offensive against the major opposition stronghold in Idlib despite a deal with rebel backer Turkey in September last year to protect the area. The head of the Observatory said air strikes had stopped since the agreement went into effect at 6:00 am .Clashes between regime loyalists and insurgents on the edges of the anti-government bastion have also ceased, he said.–
Only a few hours before it went into effect, the Observatory reported a Russian airstrike on a health facility in Aleppo’s western countryside. “The attacks we have seen on health facilities, educational facilities and water points is one of the highest in the world,” Panos Moumtzis, the UN’s Syria humanitarian chief, told AFP on Friday.The flare-up has emptied entire towns and villages in northern Hama and southern Idlib of their residents, according to the UN.“The average family in Idlib has been displaced five times,” Moumtzis said, adding that displacement is among the largest recorded by the UN during Syria’s war.
But that deal was never fully implemented as jihadists refused to withdraw from the planned demilitarised cordon.
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