(Zaman Al Wasl)- At leats 5 people have killed and 18 more wounded in Russian and regime air strikes on Homs province, medics said on Saturday.
The strikes hit Talbiseh town in the northern countryside due to cluster bomb explosion, medical sources in the town's main hospital said.
Director of Homs northern countryside observatory, Khaled al-Rashid, said the Russian warplanes have also struck residential neighborhood in Tayir Malaa town and eastern farms of Rastan and Gharanta village with vacuum missiles and Napalm bombs which caused huge destruction and fire.
Al-Rashid added to Zaman al-Wasl that regime warplanes targeted al-Ghantou town with C5k missiles in conjunction with clashes in Oum Sharshouh village during regime attempt to infiltrate backed up by aerial coverage and shelling with heavy gun-machines on al-Ghantou, confirming that who waits for a truce by the Russian and American gets a truce of Napalm taste and cluster and C5k missiles.
Regime jets and helicopters targeted Friday al-Mashou and Jawalk towns and al-Zara and Harbenfseh villages with vacuum missiles and explosive barrels in Hama southern countryside.
Meanwhile, Russia and armed oppostion have casted doubt over the prospects for an increasingly shaky five-day-old ceasefire on Saturday, with Moscow saying the situation was worsening and a senior insurgent warning that the truce "will not hold out".
The ceasefire is the result of an agreement between Russia, which backs Bashar al-Assad with air power, and the United States, which supports some rebel groups. It has reduced the fighting since coming into effect on Monday.
However, some violence has persisted across Syria, and promised aid deliveries to besieged areas remain blocked, with both sides accusing the other of bad faith.
Russia's Defence Ministry said conditions in Syria were deteriorating, adding that it believed the ceasefire had been breached 199 times by rebels and saying the United States would be responsible if it were to collapse.
Earlier on Saturday, Russian President Vladimir Putin cast doubt over Washington's commitment to the deal, but also said he believed that securing a ceasefire was a common goal for the two countries, which both agreed to extend it on Friday.
Rebels say they only reluctantly accepted the initial deal, which they believe is skewed against them, because it could relieve the dire humanitarian situation in besieged areas they control, and blamed Russia for undermining the truce.
"The truce, as we have warned, and we told the (U.S.) State Department - will not hold out," the rebel official said, pointing to the continued presence of a U.N. aid convoy at the Turkish border awaiting permission to travel to Aleppo.
"It is not possible for the party (Russia) that wages war against a people to strive to achieve a truce, as it is also not possible for it to be a sponsor of this agreement while it bombs night and day, while on the other side, the other party - America - has the role of spectator," he said.
The five-year-old civil war has killed 500,000 and displaced half the country's population, drawing in global and regional powers, causing an international refugee crisis and inspiring jihadist attacks around the world. (With Reuters)
The strikes hit Talbiseh town in the northern countryside due to cluster bomb explosion, medical sources in the town's main hospital said.
Director of Homs northern countryside observatory, Khaled al-Rashid, said the Russian warplanes have also struck residential neighborhood in Tayir Malaa town and eastern farms of Rastan and Gharanta village with vacuum missiles and Napalm bombs which caused huge destruction and fire.
Al-Rashid added to Zaman al-Wasl that regime warplanes targeted al-Ghantou town with C5k missiles in conjunction with clashes in Oum Sharshouh village during regime attempt to infiltrate backed up by aerial coverage and shelling with heavy gun-machines on al-Ghantou, confirming that who waits for a truce by the Russian and American gets a truce of Napalm taste and cluster and C5k missiles.
Regime jets and helicopters targeted Friday al-Mashou and Jawalk towns and al-Zara and Harbenfseh villages with vacuum missiles and explosive barrels in Hama southern countryside.
Meanwhile, Russia and armed oppostion have casted doubt over the prospects for an increasingly shaky five-day-old ceasefire on Saturday, with Moscow saying the situation was worsening and a senior insurgent warning that the truce "will not hold out".
The ceasefire is the result of an agreement between Russia, which backs Bashar al-Assad with air power, and the United States, which supports some rebel groups. It has reduced the fighting since coming into effect on Monday.
However, some violence has persisted across Syria, and promised aid deliveries to besieged areas remain blocked, with both sides accusing the other of bad faith.
Russia's Defence Ministry said conditions in Syria were deteriorating, adding that it believed the ceasefire had been breached 199 times by rebels and saying the United States would be responsible if it were to collapse.
Earlier on Saturday, Russian President Vladimir Putin cast doubt over Washington's commitment to the deal, but also said he believed that securing a ceasefire was a common goal for the two countries, which both agreed to extend it on Friday.
Rebels say they only reluctantly accepted the initial deal, which they believe is skewed against them, because it could relieve the dire humanitarian situation in besieged areas they control, and blamed Russia for undermining the truce.
"The truce, as we have warned, and we told the (U.S.) State Department - will not hold out," the rebel official said, pointing to the continued presence of a U.N. aid convoy at the Turkish border awaiting permission to travel to Aleppo.
"It is not possible for the party (Russia) that wages war against a people to strive to achieve a truce, as it is also not possible for it to be a sponsor of this agreement while it bombs night and day, while on the other side, the other party - America - has the role of spectator," he said.
The five-year-old civil war has killed 500,000 and displaced half the country's population, drawing in global and regional powers, causing an international refugee crisis and inspiring jihadist attacks around the world. (With Reuters)
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