With the continued calm in the northern countryside of Homs after the first breaches of the truce, the Russian forces deploy their military police on the contact lines between the regime forces and the factions

The calm still prevails since yesterday night until now, in the northern countryside of Homs, following the breaches of the truce, where the Russian-Egyptian truce for “de-escalating tension and military operations” in the northern countryside of Homs ended about 24 hours since its implementation at yesterday’s noon the 3rd of August. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented several breaches on Thursday night, where the regime forces targeted with their heavy machine guns, places in al-Taybeh area in the northern countryside of Homs, in conjunction with the targeting by several shells on areas in the village of Ghernata by the regime forces in the same countryside, and there were also an exchange of targeting between the regime forces and the factions in the northern countryside of Homs, where the regime forces targeted with several artillery shells areas in the villages of Al-Farahaniya and the town of Tirma’lah, in conjunction with the opening of their heavy fire on the outskirts of Al-Houla area. The regime forces also targeted the outskirts of Tirma’lah town by heavy machine guns, amid shelling and fire shooting of heavy machine guns that targeted the village of Om Sharshouh near Talbisa city in the northern countryside of Homs, causing material damage, and no information about casualties so far, while the factions targeted by shells and heavy machine guns areas in the villages of Housh Tasnin and Jabourin and other places controlled by the regime forces in the northern countryside  of Homs. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also documented that a fighter from an Islamic movement who died in shelling by the regime forces on areas west of Talbisa city in the northern countryside of Homs, while others were injured, and this is considered the first person to be killed since the implementation of the truce in the northern countryside of Homs.

This continued truce, came in conjunction with the deployment of Russian troops within the Russian –Egyptian agreement which ended its first day of implementation in the northern countryside of Homs, where the Russian forces deployed tens of its military police members on the contact lines between the areas controlled by the Islamic and repel factions on one hand, and the areas controlled by the regime forces and their allied militiamen on the other, amid fears prevailed since the implementation of the truce, that the agreement applied in the northern countryside of Homs, might be similar to the Eastern Ghouta Agreement, which began on the 22nd of July 2017, which did not withstand the breaches carried out by the regime forces on daily basis, and included artillery and missile shelling, believed to be ground-to-ground, and the shelling of the warplanes, which caused tens of causalities and injured civilians, in addition to the clashes that took place in areas in the Eastern Ghouta and its outskirts between the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them against the Islamic factions.