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Here are all the places Russia is accused of bombing since agreeing to 'cease hostilities' in Syria

Mar 2, 2016, 00:04 IST

Men rescue a boy from under the rubble after what activists said was explosive barrels dropped by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad in Al-Shaar neighbourhood of AleppoREUTERS/Hosam Katan

A cessation of hostilities agreement in Syria, brokered by the US and Russia, officially came into effect last Saturday.

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Though violence has not stopped, it has "plummeted," according to AFP's Beirut correspondent Maya Gebeily. The number of airstrikes has also reportedly dropped from around 100 to about six to eight per day, Reuters reported, citing a Western diplomat.

Russia, which launched a bombing campaign on behalf of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad back in September, said it would halt airstrikes for 24 hours. It was meant to ensure that no groups included in the agreement - which applies to most moderate, anti-Assad rebel factions - were accidentally targeted.

But opposition activists in rebel-held areas say Russia is still bombing them, despite Moscow's claim that it would only target areas controlled by Al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State - jihadist groups excluded from the peace plan and considered fair game for airstrikes.

The Saudi-backed High Negotiations Committee (HNC), an umbrella group encompassing many of Syria's more mainstream rebel groups, compiled a list of all of the suspected violations and sent it out in a press release on Tuesday.

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The Committee claims that regime forces and/or Russian warplanes have attacked rebel-held positions in Homs, Hama, Damascus, Quneitra, Daraa and Idlib since Saturday.

The Institute for the Study of War mapped Russia's airstrikes before and after the agreement took effect. The maps showed that while Russia's bombing campaign has slowed, its warplanes have continued to aggressively target rebel-held positions northwest of Syria's largest city, Aleppo.

View the maps below:

Institute for the Study of War

The recent push by Assad's forces - backed by Russian air cover and Iran-backed Shi'ite militias - to cut off rebel supply lines from Turkey into Aleppo has resulted in some of the most significant battlefield gains for the regime since the Syrian civil war war erupted in 2011.

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