Syria’s government carried out air raids on one of the last rebel strongholds near Damascus on Sunday a day after it declared a ceasefire in parts of the besieged enclave, a monitor said. The Syrian army on Saturday announced a halt in fighting for parts of Eastern Ghouta, a rebel-held region on the outskirts of the capital that has been ravaged in the six-year conflict. “Regime warplanes targeted the area of Ain Terma with at least six strikes since early morning, and two raids were carried out on and around the city of Douma,” the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said. Media reported that government shelling also hit the outskirts of the town of Jisreen on Sunday, the Observatory said, after artillery and rocket fire on areas including AinTerma and the town of Harasta on Saturday after the ceasefire started.
More than 330,000 people have been killed in Syria since civil war eruped in March 2011 with anti-government protests.
