{"id":4496,"date":"2016-09-11T11:54:14","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T11:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=4496"},"modified":"2016-09-11T12:12:41","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T12:12:41","slug":"airstrikes-in-syria-kill-at-least-100-hours-after-u-s-russia-ceasefire-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/airstrikes-in-syria-kill-at-least-100-hours-after-u-s-russia-ceasefire-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Airstrikes in Syria kill at least 100, hours after U.S.-Russia ceasefire deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>At least 100 people died in bombing raids on rebel-held parts of Aleppo and Idlib just hours after US and Russia agree ceasefire deal<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Air strikes on rebel-held areas of Syria reportedly killed at least 100 people hours after the US and Russia announced plans for a truce.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An air strike on a market in Idlib killed up to 60 people while at least 45 died in strikes on Aleppo province, opposition activists say.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">As shoppers queued for Eid (biggest holiday), Regime airstrike hit central market. No words. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Syriaceasefire?src=hash\">#Syriaceasefire<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Pe72iZqofo\">pic.twitter.com\/Pe72iZqofo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The White Helmets (@SyriaCivilDef) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SyriaCivilDef\/status\/774637052700876800\">September 10, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The raids on Idlib and Aleppo were believed to have been carried out by Syrian army fighter jets, or those of its main ally Russia.<br \/>\n<script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Aleppo, a major battleground in the conflict, has seen intensified fighting between government forces and the opposition in recent months, worsening the humanitarian situation there.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Syria?src=hash\">#Syria<\/a>: pictures from the market of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Idlib?src=hash\">#Idlib<\/a> today after it was struck by warplanes of the regimr <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tNoexjzvhH\">pic.twitter.com\/tNoexjzvhH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Thomas van Linge (@arabthomness) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/arabthomness\/status\/774590845991395329\">September 10, 2016<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The surge in violence came hours after the US and Russia&#8217;s top diplomats announced the ceasefire agreement after 13 hours of talks in the Swiss city of Geneva.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The agreement, announced in Geneva by Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov after months of haggling over details, was hailed as a breakthrough in the quest to bring about a negotiated settlement to the five-year-old war which has killed as many as 500,000 people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The accord included a truce to start across Syria at sunset Monday, the first day of the Muslim Eid al-Adha festival. The agreement also paved the way for joint US-Russian raids against armed groups in Syria, including the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A 10-day truce is meant to start on Monday, followed by co-ordinated air strikes against jihadist militants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Syria&#8217;s state news agency, SANA, said that the Geneva agreement had been reached &#8220;with full knowledge&#8221; of the Syrian government, which has approved it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The deal goes further than a more limited one that collapsed earlier this year because it places U.S.-Russian military cooperation in the fight against terrorism at the center of the effort to end Syria\u2019s war.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/ihs-conflict.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-4497\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/ihs-conflict.png?resize=505%2C470\" alt=\"Syria conflict map\" width=\"505\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/ihs-conflict.png?w=624&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/ihs-conflict.png?resize=300%2C279&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 100 people died in bombing raids on rebel-held parts of Aleppo and Idlib just hours [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44,1],"tags":[16,214,75,356,20,13,7],"class_list":["post-4496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","tag-airstrike","tag-bombing","tag-conflict","tag-middle-east","tag-russia","tag-syria","tag-u-s"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/syria-10sept2016attack.jpg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-1aw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4496"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4504,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4496\/revisions\/4504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}