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Monday 29 Feb 2016 - 12:53 Makkah mean time-20-5-1437
Aleppo, (IINA) - At least 15 people were killed in Syria on Saturday, the first day of a cessation of hostilities agreement between the Assad regime and opposition forces, Anadolu Agency reported citing a UK-based monitoring group.
In a statement issued on Sunday, the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said it had documented 14 violations by regime forces on the first day of the deal, noting that 15 people were killed, including 13 opposition fighters.
According to the SNHR, regime forces backed by Russian warplanes stepped up attacks in the northern Aleppo province ahead of the truce, which came into effect at midnight Friday local time.
The watchdog went on to urge the U.S and Russia, both of which helped broker the agreement, to investigate reported agreement breaches.
Syria has remained locked in a vicious civil war since early 2011, when the Assad regime cracked down on pro-democracy protests with unexpected ferocity.
Since then, the civil war resulted in more than 470,000 casualties and made the country the world’s single largest source of refugees and displaced persons, according to figures from The Syrian Center for Policy Research.
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