Syria war seethes despite cease-fire
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BEIRUT—Syria's fronts are on fire despite a cease-fire reached in December between rebels and the government.
Though the two sides sat face-to-face in the Kazakh capital of Astana a month later, the government has pressed offensives against rebels around the capital, Damascus, and recently escalated its air campaigns in Homs and Idlib.
The war's January toll—some 2,000 dead, about a third of them civilians, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group—is the lowest it has been in four years. But that may be because the government wrapped up operations for Aleppo, the country's largest city, last year.
