BEIRUT: At least 12 people were killed in air strikes on the rebel-held western Syrian town of Rastan on Wednesday, a local doctor and a monitoring group said, despite a government-declared nationwide temporary truce.
The British-based monitoring group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, also said a**ther 12 people were killed in rebel-controlled Ariha, **rth of Rastan, including three children. Pictures from Ariha showed "White Helmet" rescue workers lifting slabs of broken grey concrete as they searched for survivors in the crumbled wreckage of a building.
Syrian government forces, backed by Russia’s air force and President Bashar al-Assad’s regional allies, said they had extended a nationwide "regime of calm" until just before midnight on Thursday.
07-14-2016, 04:27 AM
Air strikes kill 24 in rebel-held Syrian towns
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