The Syrian military has
declared a 72-hour “regime of calm” covering all of Syria from 1am. on
Wednesday 6th (1800 EDT Tuesday), a military source told Reuters.
The military high
command said in a statement that “a regime of calm will be implemented across
all territory of the Syrian Arab Republic for a period of 72 hours from 1 a.m.
on July 6 until 2400 on July 8, 2016”.
The Syrian government
uses the term “regime of calm” to denote a temporary ceasefire.
The truce covers the
three-day Eid al-Fitr holiday celebrated by Muslims to mark the end of the
fasting month of Ramadan. There was no indication that it had been agreed with
any of the myriad groups opposing the government.
A ceasefire brokered by
foreign powers in February to facilitate talks to end the five-year civil war
has mostly unraveled in areas where it took effect in the west of the country.
That truce was agreed
with many opposition militias, but did not include the al-Qaeda affiliated
Nusra Front or Islamic State.
The truce was the first to be declared across
the whole country since one brokered by foreign powers in February to
facilitate talks to end the five-year-old civil war. That truce has mostly
unraveled, and the escalating violence caused talks to break down. Wednesday’s
ceasefire covers the three-day Eid al-Fitr holiday celebrated by Muslims to
mark the end of the fasting month of Ramadan. But opposition groups and a
monitoring organization said little had actually changed on the ground.
"The regime announced the ceasefire, but
they did not commit to it. There has been a lot of shelling and bombing on
Douma and Daraya (rebel-held towns near Damascus)," a spokeswoman for the
Syrian opposition delegation to Geneva peace talks said. Syria's military high
command said in a statement that "a regime of calm will be implemented
across all territory of the Syrian Arab Republic for a period of 72 hours from
1 a.m. on July 6 until 2400 on July 8, 2016". The Syrian government uses
the term "regime of calm" to denote a temporary ceasefire. The Free
Syrian Army (FSA) rebel alliance later said it would respect the Eid holiday
ceasefire, but only if government forces also abided by it. "We, the armed
revolutionary groups in Syria, welcome any effort towards a ceasefire for the
happy Eid al-Fitr period. We declare we will abide by it so long as the other
side does the same," an FSA statement said. "Until now, (the
government) has not abides by what it has announced, in that it has launched a
number of attacks in various areas today," the statement added.
Since then, the Syrian
army and the Russian military, which supports Syrian President Bashar al-Assad,
have announced a number of temporary local truces in areas of intense fighting,
for example in the city of Aleppo or near the capital Damascus. But air strikes
and fighting have often continued in spite of the declarations.
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