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
