‘Air strikes, clashes persist on third day of Syrian truce’

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BEIRUT: Syrian government warplanes carried out several air strikes and low-level clashes persisted in some areas yesterday, but a Russian and Turkish-backed ceasefire largely held in other areas on its third day, a monitoring group and rebels said.

Jets bombed the villages of Kafr Kar, Mintar and around the town of Banan in the southern Aleppo countryside, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Government forces also advanced overnight against rebels in the Eastern

Ghouta area near Damascus, seizing 10 farms close to the town of Douma, the monitor added. — AFP