Russia has begun negotiations with militant groups operating in Syria on implementing a planned ceasefire in five Syrian provinces, the defense ministry says.
The Kremlin said that Putin also held a telephone conversation with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud to present in detail the proposals contained in a joint US-Russian agreement on ceasefire in Syria.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has assured his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin of Damascus’ readiness to facilitate the establishment of a recently brokered ceasefire in the war-torn Arab country.
Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has announced that its ceasefire with Ankara has lost all its meaning after Turkey’s warplanes and artillery fire struck their bases in northern Iraq, Al-Alam News Network reports.
Two Turkish soldiers were killed and four wounded in a car bomb attack on their convoy in the mainly Kurdish southeast of the country, the local governor's office said Sunday.
Syrian rebels and local government officials have agreed to a truce in the last opposition-held area of the central city of Homs.
The Palestinian leadership proposed to Egypt a plan for a Gaza ceasefire to be followed by five days of negotiations to stop fighting between Palestinians and Israel, Palestinian official Azzam al-Ahmed told reporters in Cairo on Tuesday.
Israeli tank fire hit a house in southern Gaza on Thursday, killing three people, minutes before a five-hour truce went into effect, medics said.
Syrian army forces and opposition insurgents have agreed to call a truce in a militant-held area near the central city of Homs, activists say.
Syria's army and militants have clinched truces in key flashpoints around Damascus in recent weeks, most recently in war-ravaged Babbila.
Syrian militants in the northern Damascus district of Barzeh on Sunday agreed a local ceasefire with President Bashar al-Assad's government after nearly a year of fighting, activists said.