Ahlul Bayt News Agency - A ceasefire in northwest Syria, part of a wider deal that included cessation of hostilities in the area as well as in a town near the Lebanese border, has been broken after just one day, according to an activist monitoring group.
Shells apparently fired by pro-al Qaeda militants hit the Shiite village of Fuaa in the province of Idlib on Saturday, the so-called UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has said, after rebels claimed some dropping barrel bombs may be by pro government forces on an area nearby.
Warring sides, including Hezbollah, had agreed on Friday a ceasefire in Fuaa and next-door Kafraya, two Shiite villages held by pro-government forces and besieged by terrorists, as well as in the town of Zabadani near the Lebanese border, where fighters are holed up and surrounded by government forces.
But shelling of Fuaa resumed, the so-called observatory said, with no immediate casualties reported.
The shelling came after an online statement purportedly from militants in the area that blamed the government for alleged violating the ceasefire by dropping barrel bombs on the nearby village Taftanaz.
The statement said fighters retaliated by firing at Fuaa and Kefraya.
Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Lebanese Shia group Hezbollah, which backs Syrian government forces, had confirmed on Friday that a long-term ceasefire deal had been reached which would include the withdrawal of rebel militants from Zabadani in exchange for the evacuation of civilians from Fuaa and Kefraya.
The deal had been reached in talks backed by Iran.
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