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25 ceasefire violations reported in Syria on Christmas Eve: Russian MoD
2016-12-26
[ALMASDARNEWS] A total of 25 ceasefire violations by gangs were reported during the day in Syria, including 17 in the province of Damascus, six in the province of Aleppo, and two in the province of Hama, the Russian Center for reconciliation of the warring parties in Syria said in its regular daily bulletin posted on the Russian Defense Ministry’s official website on Friday.

"In the province of Damascus, gangs of the Jaish al-Islam
...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful...
organization which affiliates itself with the opposition shelled from mortars and firearms the settlements of Jobar, Kabun, Mazraad Mahmoud, Maydaa, Kafer Batna, Buzayna and Barza, the Al Abasyyin stadium, the Ibn al-Walid hospital and the Al Wafidin camp," the reconciliation center said. "Ahrar al-Sham
...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014...
gangs shelled from firearms Aleppo’s districts of Hayi al-Antari."

In the province of Hama, faceless myrmidons shelled the settlements of Maharda and Kornaz.

No air strikes were delivered by the Russian air group and the Syrian air force at armed opposition groups that have declared cessation of hostilities and informed the Russian or US reconciliation centers about their locations, as follows from the bulletin.

Reconciliation of the warring parties
No new reconciliation agreements were signed with representatives of Syrian settlements in the past day, with their number currently standing at 1,074, the Russian center said.

Talks on joining the regime of cessation of hostilities were continued with field commanders of illegal gangs in the settlement of Muaddamiyet al-Shih in the province of Damascus and commanders of armed opposition groups in the provinces of Homs, Hama, Aleppo and Quneitra. The number of illegal gangs that declared their commitment to the ceasefire terms remains unchanged ― 94, the bulletin says.
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