The cautious calm is still prevailing in the northern countryside of Homs and the Russian – Egyptian truce enters its fifth day

Homs province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:: The cautious calm has been prevailing in the northern countryside of Homs since midnight on Sunday – Monday, until now, while the truce which is implemented since Thursday noon the 3rd of August under Egyptian – Russian agreement in the northern countryside of Homs, have been ongoing, amidst fears of resumption of heavy targeting by the regime forces or clashes in the area, and the SOHR monitored yesterday night intensive targeting included missile shelling and fire of heavy machine guns by the regime forces on factions-held areas in al-Houla, that was followed by targeting by the factions with machine guns and missiles on Qormus, Mrymin checkpoints and other points of the regime forces in the northern countryside, and there was no information about casualties until the moment.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 5th of August that the Russian-Egyptian truce continues for the third day in a row in the northern countryside of Homs since its implementation on the afternoon of Thursday the 3rd of August 2017, and the calm is prevailing in the northern countryside of Homs since Friday’s night, after the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the regime forces targeting with missiles places in the area of al-Houla in the northern countryside, and no information on casualties.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 3rd of August that it documented several breaches on Thursday night, where the regime forces targeted with their heavy machine guns, places in al-Taybah 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-Farhaniyah and the town of TeirMa’alah, in conjunction with the opening of their heavy fire on the outskirts of Al-Houla area. The regime forces also targeted the outskirts of TeirMa’alah town by heavy machine guns, amid shelling and fire shooting of heavy machine guns that targeted the village of Om Sharshuh 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 Hosh Tasnin and Jabburin 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, where the Russian forces deployed tens of its military police members on the contact lines between the areas controlled by the Islamic and rebel 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.