UN Security Council adopts Syria ceasefire resolution
(CNN)Not long after the UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution calling for a 30-day ceasefire in Syria, regime military aircraft hit targets in the besieged Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta, activists said Saturday night.
"Warplanes carried out airstrikes targeting areas in the town of Shifouniya in Eastern Ghouta," the UK- based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said without giving details on casualties or damage.
There was no immediate mention of airstrikes on the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency. CNN has not verified the occurrence and timing of the airstrikes.
Earlier, after the ceasefire vote, Syrian UN Ambassador Bashar Ja'afari said the regime would continue to go after what it deemed terrorist groups.
"We practice a sovereign right of self-defense, and we will continue to fight terrorism wherever it is found on Syrian soil," he said, according to SANA.
A truce would allow for the delivery of emergency aid and the evacuation of the wounded in some of Syria's hardest-hit areas, including Eastern Ghouta.
Diplomats said Saturday's vote ended up being a bit of a showdown between Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nations, and her Russian counterpart, Vassily Nebenzia, over the timing of a ceasefire.
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Moscow remains a staunch advocate of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
The diplomats said the United States fought to keep language in the resolution that called for an immediate start to the ceasefire and unfettered humanitarian access without delay. The Russians kept trying to water it down to delay implementation, the diplomats said.
In the end the Russians relented and the language on an immediate ceasefire and humanitarian access were retained, the diplomats said. They said they are skeptical the Syrian regime will comply but are hopeful the resolution could be a turning point.
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A boy waits to receive medical treatment at a field hospital on February 19.
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Injured children are treated at a hospital in Douma.
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A wounded boy receives treatment in Douma following airstrikes on the village of Mesraba.
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A man carries an infant he rescued from the rubble in Hamouria on February 19.
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Injured children are treated at a hospital in Douma.
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Ghaith, a wounded 12-year-old boy, cries as he waits for treatment -- and news of his mother in the operating room -- at a makeshift hospital in Kafr Batna. They were hurt in airstrikes on the town of Jisreen.
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Children cry at a makeshift hospital in Douma.
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A man weeps over his child, who was killed in the Mesraba airstrikes.
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Medics tend to a baby as a child cries next to them at a makeshift clinic in Douma, Syria, on Thursday, February 23. More than 400 civilians have been killed this week in Syria's rebel-held Eastern Ghouta region, according to the head of the region's health department on Friday, February 23. Syrian regime forces have been pounding Eastern Ghouta with shells, mortars and bombs.
