Cessation of hostilities agreement violated six more times by terrorists

Lattakia – The Russian coordination center said that the cessation of hostilities agreement has been violated six times by terrorist groups, raising the total number of violations to 813 since the agreement came into effect on 27 February, SANA reported.

The Russian center, based in Hmeimim airbase in Lattakia, added in a statement that the so-called Jaish al-Islam has violated the agreement six times during the past 24 hours by targeting a number of towns in the countryside of Damascus and Jobar neighborhood with mortar and rocket shells.

The statement said that the ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists continued their attempts to foil the agreement through targeting al-Sheikh Maqsoud and al-Zahra residential neighborhoods, al-Nairab Airport and Tal Jabaqjaqa area in the countryside of Aleppo in addition to targeting Brouma village in Lattakia countryside.

The cessation of hostilities agreement does not cover ISIS, Jabhat al-Nusra and other groups designated as terrorist organizations by the UN Security Council.