Renewed violations target the areas of the Russian – Turkish truce along with the continuation of the field situation to mark time in the demilitarized zone

Violations continue to the Russian – Turkish truce applied in the 4 provinces, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the regime forces targeting by mortar and artillery shells, areas in the agricultural lands of Al-Lataminah town in the northern countryside of Hama, within the demilitarized zone, which caused material damage, amid the failure by the truce’s guarantors in restrain such violations, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published today morning, that the cautious calm returned to areas of the Turkish – Russian truce in Latakia, Idlib, Aleppo, and Hama since after midnight of yesterday until now, where hours of calm prevail only to be interrupted by violations by parties of the conflict whether by shelling, targeting, or clashes, and at the same time, the agreement of the Russian president Vladimir Putin and the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has entered its 7th consecutive day without any changes in the map of the demilitarized area, where Turkish intelligence continues trying to persuade the “jihadis” to withdraw from the demilitarized area, stretching from the northeastern mountains of Latakia, passing through the countryside of Idlib and Hama, until the northwestern suburbs of Aleppo city, after failing in previous times to persuade them.

The Syrian Observatory published last night that the agreement between Erdogan and Putin completes its 6th consecutive day within the demilitarized zone stretched from the north-eastern mountains of Lattakia, to the north-western suburbs of Aleppo city passing through both Hama and Idlib, with more violation within the areas of the supposed truce between the Russians and the Turks, where the Syrian Observatory monitored today the 20th of October 2018, the fall of several shells fired by the regime forces on places in Kafr Nabudah town in Hama countryside within the demilitarized zone, without information about injuries so far, and the Syrian Observatory published hours ago, that it monitored targeting by the regime forces by heavy machineguns to places in the outskirts of Al-Lataminah town in the northern countryside of Hama, also one of the jihadist factions targeted a heavy machinegun of the regime forces in the area of Abu Ali Hill on Jabal Al-Turkman in the northern countryside of Lattakia, which damaged it, without information about human losses, in renewed violations to the truce between the Russians and the Turks, within the demilitarized zone, agreed upon between the Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Receb Tayyip Erdogan, where it is stretched from the north-eastern mountains of Lattakia, to the north-western suburbs of Aleppo city passing through both Hama and Idlib, and the Syrian Observatory published hours ago, that it monitored new violations today morning, the 20th of October 2018, within the agreed demilitarized area, where renewed targeting took place using heavy and medium machineguns as well as exchange of shelling for the second consecutive day in the southeastern countryside of Idlib, between the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them against the factions operating in the area, where the targeting concentrated in the areas of al-Khwyn and al-Zarzour, but no information about casualties yet, in the same context, activists of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights did not monitor until the moment any withdrawals of jihadi groups and factions from the demilitarized area, which extends from the northeastern mountains of Latakia, passes through Idlib and Hama countryside, until the northwestern suburbs of Aleppo city.