Car bombing against Syrian rebels kills 18, says monitor
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Monitors from the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported at least 18 people were killed in a car bomb on Wednesday (March 2)which they say targeted a base of Jabhat Thuwwar Souria, a group linked to the Free Syrian Army.

Video footage purporting to show the aftermath of the blast in Syria’s southern province of Quneitra on Wednesday has been uploaded onto social media.

Ceasefire violations

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday that the ceasefire agreement in Syria has been violated 31 times over the past three days.

She did not say who had broken the tentative truce between Syrian government forces and opposition rebels.

The cessation of hostilities drawn up by Washington and Moscow faced “complete nullification” because Syrian government attacks were violating the agreement, the official of the Saudi-backed opposition High Negotiations Committee said.

The cessation of hostilities, the first of its kind since th