Clashes between regime forces and opposition and rebel groups kill at least eight civilians in the latest wave of violence in Syria - war monitors
Smoke rises after Assad regime forces strike residential areas in Syria’s de-escalation zones on April 30, 2019 in Idlib.
Several deadly skirmishes have occurred since the deal was reached in Russia but the last few weeks have seen an uptick in violence inside the planned buffer zone. Some parts of the region of some three million people are under the control of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham , a group dominated by fighters from a former Al Qaeda affiliate Nusra Front, in one of the last parts of Syria regime of Bashar al Assad has yet to take back.
Rebels also fired rockets at a Russian air base in the region but were repelled, with the attack causing no casualties or damage, the Russian defence ministry said in a statement.Twenty-nine members of HTS and of the Turkistan Islamic Party, a Uighur-dominated militant group were also killed. UN chief Antonio Guterres has called "for an urgent de-escalation of the situation as the holy month of Ramadan begins" and urged "the parties to recommit fully to the ceasefire arrangements of the memorandum signed on 17 September 2018."
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