--- description: Clashes between rebels and Syrian government forces took place less than two hours after a ceasefire took effect on Friday. title: Clashes Violate Syria Ceasefire Soon After It Starts image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Syria](/tag/syria/) ## Syria Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Clashes Violate Syria Ceasefire Less Than Two Hours After It Starts by [Reuters](/author/reuters/) ## Reuters Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 30, 2016 2:06 AM CUT by [Reuters](/author/reuters/) ## Reuters Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 30, 2016 2:06 AM CUT (BEIRUT) — Clashes between rebels and Syrian government forces took place less than two hours after a ceasefire took effect on Friday, a monitoring group and a rebel official said, in the first violations of a deal backed by Russia and Turkey. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said rebels had violated the truce deal and taken over a position in Hama province. Mohammed Rasheed, a spokesman for the Jaish al-Nasr rebel group, said government forces had violated the truce, shelling areas in Atshan and Skeik villages in Idlib province, which borders Hama. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4619740/syria-ceasefire-violate-russia-turkey/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4619740/syria-ceasefire-violate-russia-turkey/"},"headline":"Clashes Violate Syria Ceasefire Less Than Two Hours After It Starts","datePublished":"2016-12-30T02:06:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T02:30:07.678Z","description":"The ceasefire has been backed by Russia and Turkey","url":"https://time.com/4619740/syria-ceasefire-violate-russia-turkey/","keywords":["Syria"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Reuters","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/reuters/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/syria/","name":"Syria"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4619740/syria-ceasefire-violate-russia-turkey/","name":"Clashes Violate Syria Ceasefire Less Than Two Hours After It Starts"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Turkey and Russia Agree on Syria Cease-Fire Plan, Turkish State News Agency Says","description":"'Terror groups' are not part of the agreement, however","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/HK61ENvI/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2016-12-29T15:58:13.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/HK61ENvI.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4619740/syria-ceasefire-violate-russia-turkey/","duration":"PT1M2S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4619740/syria-ceasefire-violate-russia-turkey/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```