Air raids in Syria as shaky truce enters second day

A damaged car is pictured in Kafr Hamra village, northern Aleppo countryside, Syria. REUTERS

Several air strikes hit central and northern Syria on Sunday, a monitor said, but the first major ceasefire of the war appeared to be broadly intact on its second day. Warplanes, believed to be either Syrian or Russian, bombed seven villages in the provinces of Aleppo and Hama, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Rami Abdel Rahman, the head of the Britain-based monitor, said one person was killed in Aleppo province. It was unclear if the raids hit areas covered by the truce. The agreement does not include territory held by the jihadist group and Al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Nusra Front, which together control more than half of Syrian land.