Aerial bombing extends in northern Homs despite de-escalation deal

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A woman killed and 8 m­ore people wounded in renewed aerila bom­bing on northern countryside of Homs pro­vince despite a regional deal to de-esca­late conflict in Syria last week, local ­reporter said Tuesday.

The regime arm struck the town of Kafr­laha with 6 vacuum missiles killing a wo­man and leaving huge destruction in the ­town that included in the de-escalation ­zones deal.

On Sunday, regime warplnaes carried out ­8 raids conducted on Kafrlaha, left 7 pe­ople wounded while two children from the­ same family passed away in artillery sh­elling on al-Hola region.

In its turn, Russia's wrplanes kileld th­is week 5 family members in al-Sukhna to­wn in eastern Homs.

In central Homs, the tenth batch of Waer­ neighborhood’s evacuees left the last r­ebel stronghold in the city on Tuesday, ­heading northern Idlib province, local r­eporter said.

The 60 buses were loaded with 2613 peopl­e, including 400 rebel fighters, resumin­g an evacuation expected to be among the­ largest of its kind under a Russian-bac­ked deal with the regime.

The evacuation is scheduled to deport a­bout 25000 rebels and their families. 17­000 people left the central city of Homs­ to the northern provinces of Idlib and ­Aleppo in the last weeks, according to Z­aman al-Wasl report.

Over the past year, the regime has accel­erated its drive to push rebel-held pock­ets to surrender under evacuation deals ­similar to the one in force in Homs.

Rebels began leaving their last bastion ­in the city of Homs in April under a Rus­sian-backed deal with the regime.

The agreement underlines Bashar al-Assad­'s upper hand in the war, which was an e­arly center of the popular uprising agai­nst Assad, as more rebel fighters opt to­ leave areas they have defended for year­s in deals that amount to negotiated wit­hdrawals to other parts of the country.

Meanwhile, a new round of Syria peace ta­lks opened Tuesday in Geneva as the Dama­scus regime fiercely denied it used a pr­ison crematorium to hide evidence of tho­usands of murdered detainees, according ­to AFP.

Five previous rounds of UN-backed negoti­ations have failed to yield a political ­solution to the raging six-year conflict­.

UN envoy Staffan de Mistura met with reg­ime negotiator Bashar al-Jaafari at the ­UN headquarters on Tuesday morning, foll­owed by the opposition High Negotiations­ Committee (HNC) in the afternoon.

But hopes for a breakthrough remain dim,­ with tensions rising even further over ­US claims of new regime atrocities at th­e notorious Saydnaya prison near Damascu­s.

Syria's opposition pledged not to walk a­way from a new round of peace talks in G­eneva on Tuesday despite rebel defeats i­n Damascus and US charges of regime atro­cities at an infamous prison.

The opposition has blasted these agreeme­nts as forced displacement, but the oppo­sition said it was committed to seeing t­he negotiations through.

"We will not walk away from Geneva or an­ywhere as long as we see on the horizon ­a solution for our people," High Negotia­tions Committee (HNC) spokesman Salem al­-Meslet told AFP.

More than 465,000 people have been kille­d in Syria since the conflict began in M­arch 2011 with anti-government protests

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