Russia reports Turkish shelling of Syrian Kurds

The remarks came after fighting subsided across much of Syria as the first major ceasefire of the devastating five-year war appeared to broadly hold despite sporadic breaches in parts of the battle-scarred country.

It was always unlikely that all guns would fall silent after five years of a war that has killed more than a quarter of a million people and created a refugee crisis straining Europe’s borders. Still, both sides have said they will continue to abide by the truce.

“This really worries us because we don’t know how to deal with any violations and what are the areas that should not be targeted”, he said, adding it was unclear how violations would be punished. The two superpowers are responsible for deciding whether some attacks on either Islamic State (Isis) or the al-Nusra Front, two jihadi organisations excluded from the deal, are permissible.

Officials say the agreement has been breached at least 9 times in 24 hours.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad.

He also said that there had been an attack by Hizbullah in the town of Zabadani.

Several groups are pointing fingers after some reported airstrikes were launched in Syria – and on just the second day of a temporary truce.

They said overall the ceasefire is holding up, but some of the violations were attributed to the rebels.

Warplanes attacked six towns in Syria’s northern Aleppo province early on Sunday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, a day after a cease-fire agreement took effect.

A Saudi-based opposition umbrella group, the High Negotiations Committee, reported 26 Russian airstrikes on Sunday against rebel factions supposedly covered by the truce.

Meanwhile, Russian military officials said they contacted a U.S.-operated coordination center in Jordan’s capital, Amman, on February 28 for clarification about what the Kremlin says were artillery attacks on Syrian territory from Turkey.

In the city of Aleppo, people went about their usual routines on Sunday, the start of week in Syria, as most have grown accustomed to regular bombardments. Clashes in western Latakia province between regime forces backed by Russian officers and Shiite militiamen and rebels were ongoing, activists said.

The attacks by the Syrian regime have included barrel bombs and rockets, Meslet said. The cessation of hostilities does not apply to designated terrorist organizations operating in Syria, including Islamic State (IS) and the Nusra Front, a group affiliated with al-Qaeda.

Iran, Russia and Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement are propping up the Alawite-led Assad government, while Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar back the more moderate Sunni-dominated opposition, along with the US, UK and France.

The truce is the culmination of new diplomatic efforts that reflect a battlefield dramatically changed since Russian Federation joined the war in September with air strikes to prop up Assad.