Syria ceasefire
The cessation of hostilities in Syria that came into effect at sunset on Monday is holding well into its first day, reports suggest.UK-based monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it had recorded no civilian deaths in the first 15 hours of the truce. Residents in the embattled northern city of Aleppo reported calm. Separately, Israel denied on Monday that Syria had shot down one of its jets over the Syrian Golan Heights. The Israeli military said in a statement that it had attacked Syrian positions after a mortar bomb struck the Israeli-controlled area of the Golan Heights, but that two Syrian surface-to-air missiles missed its aircraft. The truce in Syria was broken by sporadic attacks carried out by both government forces and rebels after the ceasefire had come into effect.
The Syrian army has said armed groups will apply the truce throughout Syria for seven days; however that it reserves the right to respond decisively to any violation. Humanitarian groups are hoping to make aid deliveries to the worst hit areas, especially the war-torn city of Aleppo. If the truce holds for seven days, the US and Russia will carry out co-ordinated air strikes on militant groups – including so-called Islamic State and Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, known until recently as the Nusra Front. The conflict in Syria, which began with an uprising against Assad, has raged for five years and claimed the lives of more than a quarter of a million people. More than 4.8 million have fled abroad, and an estimated 6.5 million others have been displaced within the country
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