{Chief peace negotiator of main opposition bloc Mohammad Alloush resigns over failure of peace talks to end Syria war.}<\/p>\n
The chief peace negotiator of Syria’s main opposition bloc said on Sunday he was resigning over the failure of the UN-backed Geneva peace talks to bring a political settlement to the Syria crisis.<\/p>\n
Mohammad Alloush, who is also the representative of the powerful Jaish al-Islam rebel faction in the Saudi-based High Negotiations Committee, told Al Jazeera that the peace talks failed to secure the release of thousands of prisoners languishing in regime custody.<\/p>\n
“The peace talks failed to stop the bloodshed of our people, failed to secure the release of thousands of detainees or to push Syria towards a political transition without [Bashar] al-Assad and his criminal gang,” he said.<\/p>\n
“The Internbational Community need to put serious pressure on Russia and Assad to stop the killing of our people.”<\/p>\n
The UN-backed parties have not set a date for the resumption of the peace talks after the High Negotiations Committee suspended their participation over intensifying of regime air strikes in recent weeks.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Syrian rebels have taken two villages from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) as they fought to undo gains made by the group in a surprise offensive days earlier, activists have said.<\/p>\n
Rebels retook the villages of Kafr Shoush and Braghida on Sunday, expanding their buffer around the rebel-held town of Azaz, home to tens of thousands of people displaced by war, according to the Local Coordination Committees, an activist network inside the country.<\/p>\n
ISIL, also known as ISIS, took Syrian rebels by surprise on Sunday when they launched an offensive that threatened to seize Azaz and isolate Marea, another rebel-held town north of the contested city of Aleppo.<\/p>\n
More than 160,000 civilians have been trapped by the fighting. The international medical organisation, Doctors Without Borders (MSF), evacuated one of the few remaining hospitals in the area.<\/p>\n
The rebel pocket around Azaz, which connects to the Turkish border, is surrounded by ISIL to one side and the predominantly Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to the other.<\/p>\n
The ISIL advance prompted a rare deal between the SDF and rebels on Saturday, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group.<\/p>\n
It said that the rebels surrendered control of a village near Marea to an SDF division in exchange for allowing 6,000 civilians to evacuate to areas under Kurdish control.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere in Aleppo, government air strikes targeted the neighbourhood of Sakhour on Saturday and killed at least six people, including five children, the Observatory said.<\/p>\n
Fighting continued between government forces, rebels and ISIL in other parts of the country on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Government forces shelled an opposition neighbourhood of Homs, Syria’s third largest city, the observatory said on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The strikes on the al-Waer neighbourhood killed at least seven people and injured 17, including four children, according to the Observatory.<\/p>\n
Al-Waer has been under government siege since 2013, according to the monitoring group Siege Watch. The UN says nearly half a million people are trapped in sieges in the Syria war. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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