The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Calm prevails the first half hour of the 3rd ceasefire in Syria during the year 2016

The provinces of Damascus, Rif Dimashq, Aleppo, Homs, Hama, Daraa, Quneitra, Latakia and other areas in Syria are witnessing a calm atmosphere since the start of the ceasefire, which took effect at exactly midnight of Thursday – Friday the 30th of December 2016, and that is during the first half hour of the start of the truce, according to the Russian – Turkish agreement, where no violations were documented by the activists of the Syrian Observatory for human rights in the first half hour in all of the monitored areas.

A Russian – American cease-fire took place in most of the areas of Syria and continued since 7 in the evening of the 12th of September 2016 and until 7 in the evening of the 19th of September 2016, and also it was preceded by a truce and a cease-fire in Syria in the 27th of February 2016, but the agreement fell apart in the last third of April 2016, and the military machines re-started the killing and the escalation of bombing on most areas of Syria.