Shelling, clashes in demilitarized area

NEWS DESK

Violations continue in the demilitarized area, according to Turkey and Russia, the sponsors of the agreement signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recap Tayyip Erdogan on September 17, 2018..

In this context, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored bombardments by the regime forces on areas in the towns and villages of Latamna, Hsaraya, Kfarnaboda, and Kafarzita in the northern sector of the Hama countryside.

The regime also targeted areas in the towns of Hibit and al-Sikkik in the southern countryside of Idlib, coinciding with targeting areas in the abandoned battalion area, in the eastern sector of the Idlib countryside.

The Observatory also monitored clashes between the regime's forces and the mercenary groups of Turkey on axes in and around al-Malah area in the northern countryside of Aleppo, amid mutual attacks on the battle's axis.

For its part, SANA agency of the Syrian regime said that "an army unit carried out this morning artillery strikes focused on axes of terrorist groups moved in the center of al-Arbin village in response to the attacks by sniping at the military points and safe areas in Meherda countryside."

The agency pointed out that the bombing resulted in "killing of a number of terrorists and wounding others and the destruction of weapons and sites for them."

According to the agreement between Putin and Erdogan, Turkey had to withdraw heavy weapons from the demilitarized area in four Syrian provinces of Idlib, Aleppo, Hama, and Latakia, until 10 October and the withdrawal of mercenaries from that region until the 15th of the same month, but Turkey did not apply the agreement.

On the contrary, Turkey has opened the way for mercenaries of Jabhat al-Nusra to control new areas in the region, despite the fact that there are 12 Turkish points that they say are observation points.

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