{"id":45862,"date":"2017-08-03T16:54:52","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T16:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2017\/08\/03\/truce-goes-into-effect-in-another-syria-safe-zone\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T03:42:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T03:42:20","slug":"truce-goes-into-effect-in-another-syria-safe-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/flashpoints\/2017\/08\/03\/truce-goes-into-effect-in-another-syria-safe-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"Truce goes into effect in another Syria &#8216;safe zone&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BEIRUT \u2014 Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry announced a cease-fire for a third safe zone in war-torn Syria on Thursday, paving the way for the delivery of sorely needed humanitarian relief to rebel-held areas north of the city of Homs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Military Spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said Russia would deploy military police in the area on Friday and set up two checkpoints and three observation points around its borders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s important that people can live again,\u201d said Mustapha Khaled, an opposition activist working for a media center for the town of Talbisah, in north Homs province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is the third of four planned cease-fires reached in recent months under an agreement brokered by Russia, Iran, and Turkey in May that aims to \u201cde-escalate\u201d the violent and prolonged Syrian civil war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russia and Iran are providing military support to President Bashar Assad, while Turkey sponsors some of the opposition forces arrayed against him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pro-government forces have besieged the enclave north of Homs for years, but have been unable to capture it from the opposition even as it recovered territory elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shelling and air strikes against the enclave have eased since the May agreement was signed, said Khaled. Residents will now be expecting further relief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The agreement, according to notes leaked by the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group, follows the model of another cease-fire zone for the suburbs of Damascus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both truces were negotiated in Cairo between Russia and what the Ministry of Defense described as the \u201cmoderate opposition.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aid will be expected to flow again to north Homs, and Russia will man checkpoints around the enclave to facilitate the movement of civilians in and out of the enclave to revitalize the economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The agreement also prescribes the release of political prisoners, long a demand of the opposition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.N. has long pleaded with the sides in Syria to allow relief to flow to besieged areas. It says the parties are using food and other basic goods as a weapon of war. Pro-government forces have been responsible for most of the obstructionism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The north Homs enclave holds 147,000 people, according to the military media arm of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, a participant in the conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The government\u2019s air force has cut back its attacks on the four \u201cde-escalation zones\u201d designated in the May agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are still loopholes for fighting however, characteristic of the cease-fires that have come and gone throughout the war. The government has pounded parts of the Damascus suburbs nominally covered under the cease-fire there, on the grounds that it is targeting al-Qaida-linked militants, as permissible in the agreements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"560\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-825575814.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-83921\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-825575814.jpg.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-825575814.jpg.jpg?resize=300,164 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-825575814.jpg.jpg?resize=768,420 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A picture taken on August 2, 2017, during a tour guided by the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah movement shows journalists and TV crews standing next to a Syrian government forces&#8217; artillery gun at a position in a mountainous area around the Syrian town of Flita near the border with Lebanon.Louai Beshara\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Observatory says 170 people have been killed in the 12 days since the cease-fire there went into effect, calling the truce a \u201cfailure.\u201d Other such cease-fires have crumbled under the strain of these attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also Thursday, a 113-bus convoy from Lebanon carrying thousands of refugees and al-Qaida-linked militants arrived at a transfer point in the western Syrian province of Hama, en route to the rebel-held Idlib province in northwest Syria. Idlib is dominated by a Syrian affiliate of al-Qaida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By the afternoon, some of the buses moved toward the north in staggered groups as the militants in Idlib released three of the five prisoners, captured in Syria last year, from the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, which is fighting in support of Assad\u2019s government in Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The remaining buses will be allowed to move north as the remaining two Hezbollah fighters are freed later Thursday, according to Hezbollah\u2019s Al-Manar TV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The swap is part of an agreement struck this week to provide al-Qaida-linked militants with safe passage out of Lebanon. Some 6,000 Syrians elected to leave Lebanon with the fighters. 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