Baladi - Agencies
Reuters News Agency reported that Russian air strikes against rebels in southwest Syria resumed on Wednesday, residents and a war monitor said, after a rebel said talks to restore government rule there peacefully had failed.
The air strikes targeted the towns of Tafas, northwest of the provincial capital Deraa, and Saida, to its east, according to the agency.
Rebels have been negotiating with Russia since Saturday, seeking a deal to end fighting by accepting the return of state sovereignty, but they have not been able to agree terms.
“The talks with the Russian enemy in Bosra al-Sham have failed because of their insistence on handing over heavy weapons,” Abu Shaima, a spokesman of the central operations room representing main Free Syrian Army factions negotiating with the Russians told Reuters.
The fighting in southwest Syria has caused an estimated 270,000 people to flee their homes, the United Nations said on Monday.