Syria regime allies breached truce 52 times on Tuesday: NGO

3/2/2016 6:48:14 PM

(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) >The Assad regime and its allies carried out 52 truce violations on Tuesday four days after a cessation-of-hostilities agreement went into effect in war-torn Syria the Syrian Network for Human Rights said in a report.

In its report issued on Wednesday the U.K.-based NGO said that the 52 violations had included "19 armed clashes [with enemy forces] and 32 detentions by regime forces".

According to the report regime forces prevented a humanitarian aid convoy from entering the town of Muadamiyat al-Sham in the Rif Dimashq province and engaged in 15 incidents of ground fighting.

"The total number of truce violations now stands at 145 since the truce went into effect on Feb. 27" the NGO asserted.

According to the report the violations were committed in Syria’s Hama Homs Idlib Rif Dimashq and Daraa provinces.

Russian forces meanwhile committed two violations -- one in Idlib and another in Hama -- while Syrian Kurdish forces committed a violation in Raqqa province the NGO said.

Wednesday’s report did not cover violations committed in areas held by the Daesh terrorist group.

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