Syria's Phoney Ceasefire Gives Way To Its Phoney War -- Richard Spencer, The Telegraph
It wasn't the biggest fight of the war, but it was typical. The four tank shells thumped into the rebels' position one by one. Its occupants were safe, though, having already fled fifty metres back down the road.
The next day a fighter jet came in and finished the job.
"The regime's troops had been there three days ago," said Mohanad standing next to the remnants of the three houses in Karem Jabal, a district Aleppo. "Then we pushed them out." This was the regime's response.
No deaths, no injuries, just another street reduced to dust and shattered breeze blocks, another family in tears as their home followed so many others. It was not much of a battle, but then this was not much of a ceasefire, either.
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