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Back to school jitters in Syria's Ghouta
More than 4 million Syrian students are heading back to school this month in areas under government control across the country, the education ministry says.
The aid comes after an agreement between President Emmanuel Macron and Russian leader Vladimir Putin following talks since May.
Earlier, state television said successive blasts were heard in rural Hama province and that authorities were investigating the cause.
In a statement, the OPCW said it would now evaluate and consider whether the team needs to make a second visit to Douma.
A timeline of the Syrian conflict, from protests in March 2011 to the collapse of rebel groups in Eastern Ghouta in March 2018.
A war monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the Syrian military had resumed artillery bombardment of Douma, where blasts were heard.
The opposition accuses Assad of moving his opponents out of Syria’s main towns and cities to the border with Turkey in what it calls a systematic policy of “demographic change”.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was the highest 48-hour death toll in the Syria conflict since a 2013 chemical attack on eastern Ghouta.
A spokeswoman for the prime minister said Trump had thanked May for her support following last week’s US military action in Syria.
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has trapped Raqqa in a shrinking pocket of territory on the northern bank of the Euphrates.
The Syrian and Russian military have carried out many air strikes in Idlib and Aleppo provinces during the war.
The Jabhat Fateh al-Sham jihadist group launched an attack on a number of FSA groups in north-western Syria on Tuesday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the evacuation of the villages near Idlib had been postponed as a result of the incident.
In a statement calling for the truce, the rebels made no mention of evacuating the several thousand fighters.
The president-elect has signalled opposition to US support for the rebels, and an overhaul of policy on Syria.
The Hazzm movement was once central to a covert CIA operation to arm Syrian rebels.
Officials said the election was a sign Assad was unwilling to seek a political solution to the conflict.
Several Syrian soldiers were killed after Turkish forces fought to protect its borders.
Syria calls up former soldiers from the reserves to assist in the country’s ongoing revolt.