Turkey warns Kurds against threats during truce

Daesh and Al-Qaeda’s Syria affiliate, the Nusra Front, along with other unspecified groups designated terrorist organizations by the UN Security Council, are not included in the agreement.

“The decisive fight against them will, without doubt, be continued”, he added.

The task force, created by the 17-nation International Syria Support Group, would meet to “monitor and check” what has been happening on the ground, De Mistura said. Asked what, if anything, the Syrian regime can do to stop an attack, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says Assad “could turn over every single bit of his chemical weapons to the global community in the next week”.

Guns have fallen silent across Syria after a cessation of hostilities backed by the United Nations came into effect.

But success requires adherence by multiple armed factions – and the truce is made more fragile because it allows fighting to continue against the Islamic State group and Nusra Front, which could easily re-ignite broader warfare.

He also said he is concerned that Russian Federation will continue to hit Syrian civilians and moderate opposition groups during the upcoming cease-fire in Syria.

News agency AP, says the town of Talbiseh, in Homs, was shelled by government artillery at a 10.15pm – but fighting died out soon after. But it warned the government and Russian Federation not to target it under the pretense of attacking terrorist groups such as ISIS and al-Nusra Front.

But the DNA report suggested the attack was carried out by Abdulbaki Somer, born in the eastern Turkish city of Van, said the security official and the state-run Anadolu news agency, which cited prosecution sources.

The cease-fire for Syria is set to take effect at midnight Friday local time.

“We will destroy this barbaric terrorist organisation and continue to stand with those around the world who seek a better, safer future”, he said in his weekly address.

It said there were clashes between regime forces and rebels in Latakia, and other incidents of violence between government forces and ISIS fighters in Aleppo.

The next day, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu blamed a Syrian Kurdish YPG militia fighter working with Kurdish militants inside Turkey for the attack, naming him as Salih Necar, born in 1992, and from the Hasakah region of northern Syria.

The deal – which excludes the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group and other extremists – marks the biggest diplomatic push yet to help end Syria’s violence.

“Ankara is the only place that decides actions regarding Turkey’s security”, he said.

It was unclear if any groups had refused to sign up.

The U.N. envoy for Syria says the situation after the first day of a USA and Russian-brokered cease-fire is “quite reassuring”.

Jan Egeland, a special advisor to De Mistura, said that more than 180 trucks filled with aid had reached six areas under siege from different sides in the past two weeks. Obama noted the only way to deal IS a lasting defeat is to end the civil war and chaos in Syria upon which it thrives.

Indirect peace talks between the Syrian government and HNC collapsed on February 3, because of a large-scale government offensive.