{"id":26896,"date":"2016-07-14T03:12:04","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T03:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/deadly-air-strikes-across-syria-as-ceasefire\/"},"modified":"2016-07-14T03:12:36","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T03:12:36","slug":"deadly-air-strikes-across-syria-as-ceasefire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/deadly-air-strikes-across-syria-as-ceasefire\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly air strikes across Syria as ceasefire dissolves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Fighting intensifies across Syria as air strikes hit a market place in Idlib and shells pound Homs.}<\/p>\n<p>A series of air strikes on a market place in Syria&#8217;s Idlib and shelling and bombings in the central Homs province have killed dozens of Syrians, according to a rights group.<\/p>\n<p>At least 12 people, including three children and a woman, were killed in strikes on Wednesday in the Idlib town of Ariha, the United Kingdom-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.<\/p>\n<p>The group added that &#8220;the death toll is expected to rise&#8221; because several people are in a critical condition. <\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Adham Abu Hossam, reporting from Ariha, said the war planes &#8220;launched four consecutive air strikes on main areas in the town&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Three of these air strikes targeted main markets inside the town,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Many shopkeepers have been killed, and many families are left without providers.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear if the war planes were the Syrian government&#8217;s or Russian. <\/p>\n<p>An estimated 20 people were killed by government forces&#8217; shelling and air strikes on Rastan, a city in the Homs province of central Syria.<\/p>\n<p>The Syrian Observatory group also reported clashes in Quneitra, as well as air strikes in the southern Damascus countryside and elsewhere. <\/p>\n<p>SANA, the Syrian government&#8217;s state news agency, said at least one person was killed by rebel shelling and 20 others injured in the government-controlled part of Aleppo on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the Syrian government unilaterally extended a 72-hour ceasefire. On the ground, however, fighting continued without pause in many parts of the country. <\/p>\n<p>Syria&#8217;s uprising started with mostly unarmed protests against President Bashar al-Assad in March 2011, but it quickly grew into a full-scale civil war between rebels and government forces. <\/p>\n<p>An estimated 280,000 have been killed in the five years of bloodshed, according to the Syrian Observatory. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-13516 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/83a5e1cc5c4a47edb3048582c3347158_18.jpg\" alt=\"Air strikes hit a popular market in the rebel-controlled town of Ariha in Idlib Province \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Fighting intensifies across Syria as air strikes hit a market place in Idlib and shells pound Homs.} A series of air strikes on a market place in Syria&#8217;s Idlib and shelling and bombings in the central Homs province have killed dozens of Syrians, according to a rights group. 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