(Zaman Al Wasl)-
At least 57 civilians have been killed on Tuesday in regime air strikes
on two marketplaces in northern Idlib province, activists told Zaman
al-Wasl.
A least 42 people have been killed and dozens more people wounded in Maaret Nu'man town when regime's warplanes fired 4 vacuum missiles into a crowded vegetable market.
The second air strike targeted the local marketplace of Kafranbel town, leaving at least 15 dead and dozen wounded, Hammoud Junaid, local activist, said.
"We have more than 20 cars that have been moving dead and injured to hospitals in the area," said Ahmad Sheikho, a member of the civil defense corps, a rescue service operating in opposition-held territory.
Ahmed al-Seoud, head of the 13th Division, a foreign-backed faction fighting under the umbrella of the Free Syrian Army, told Reuters the air strikes hit the main vegetable market, killing 42 people and wounding around 100.
Bashar al-Assad's regime has been accused of more than 2,000 violations since the 'cessation of hostilities' ceasefire deal went into effect on Feb.27.
State-run media said rockets were fired by rebels had killed three children in nearby Kefraya, a Shi'ite town loyal to the government in Idlib province. The dead were members of one family.
Meanwhile, the opposition's High Negotiations Committee said it is pulling out of formal mediation citing a worsening situation in Syria.
The latest interruption to the on-off peace talks, brokered by the United Nations, follows worsening violence in northern Syria - especially around Aleppo - where a seven-week-old ceasefire has effectively collapsed.
Announcing Monday it was suspending its "formal participation in the Syrian peace talks," the opposition High Negotiations Committee (HNC) spokesman Salem Al Meslet said the group "remains fully committed to the political process and establishing peace through diplomacy."
The team would "remain in Geneva ready to engage in serious talks," Meslet added.
But earlier the group said it was "unacceptable" for negotiations to continue while President Bashar al-Assad's government continued to "bombard and starve civilians," claiming that regime truce violations in the north numbered more than 2,000.
In his turn, The Syrian regime's chief negotiator Bashar Ja'afari said his team was pushing for an expanded government led by President Bashar al-Assad at U.N.-led peace talks, and Assad's own future was not up for negotiation.
Bashar Ja'afari told Lebanese TV news channel al Maydeen the larger government they wanted would preserve all the country's existing institutions.
"In Geneva we have one mandate only to arrive at an expanded national government only, this is our mandate ... this is the goal we strive to achieve in the Geneva peace talks," Ja'afari said in comments broadcast overnight. (With agencies)
A least 42 people have been killed and dozens more people wounded in Maaret Nu'man town when regime's warplanes fired 4 vacuum missiles into a crowded vegetable market.
The second air strike targeted the local marketplace of Kafranbel town, leaving at least 15 dead and dozen wounded, Hammoud Junaid, local activist, said.
"We have more than 20 cars that have been moving dead and injured to hospitals in the area," said Ahmad Sheikho, a member of the civil defense corps, a rescue service operating in opposition-held territory.
Ahmed al-Seoud, head of the 13th Division, a foreign-backed faction fighting under the umbrella of the Free Syrian Army, told Reuters the air strikes hit the main vegetable market, killing 42 people and wounding around 100.
Bashar al-Assad's regime has been accused of more than 2,000 violations since the 'cessation of hostilities' ceasefire deal went into effect on Feb.27.
State-run media said rockets were fired by rebels had killed three children in nearby Kefraya, a Shi'ite town loyal to the government in Idlib province. The dead were members of one family.
Meanwhile, the opposition's High Negotiations Committee said it is pulling out of formal mediation citing a worsening situation in Syria.
The latest interruption to the on-off peace talks, brokered by the United Nations, follows worsening violence in northern Syria - especially around Aleppo - where a seven-week-old ceasefire has effectively collapsed.
Announcing Monday it was suspending its "formal participation in the Syrian peace talks," the opposition High Negotiations Committee (HNC) spokesman Salem Al Meslet said the group "remains fully committed to the political process and establishing peace through diplomacy."
The team would "remain in Geneva ready to engage in serious talks," Meslet added.
But earlier the group said it was "unacceptable" for negotiations to continue while President Bashar al-Assad's government continued to "bombard and starve civilians," claiming that regime truce violations in the north numbered more than 2,000.
In his turn, The Syrian regime's chief negotiator Bashar Ja'afari said his team was pushing for an expanded government led by President Bashar al-Assad at U.N.-led peace talks, and Assad's own future was not up for negotiation.
Bashar Ja'afari told Lebanese TV news channel al Maydeen the larger government they wanted would preserve all the country's existing institutions.
"In Geneva we have one mandate only to arrive at an expanded national government only, this is our mandate ... this is the goal we strive to achieve in the Geneva peace talks," Ja'afari said in comments broadcast overnight. (With agencies)
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