Alwaght- The Syrian army has declared a 72-hour truce across the entire territory of the country starting Wednesday on the occasion of Eid ul Fitr celebrations.
The General Command of the Army and Armed Forces announced on Wednesday that a truce (regime of silence) is enforced across Syria for 72 hours," SANA reported.
According to SANA, the General Command said in a statement that "the truce will last from 1:00 am, July 6th until midnight, July 8th."
The truce is the first to be declared across the whole country since the one brokered by foreign powers in February to facilitate talks to end the five-year-old civil war. This truce has been violated several times by foreign-backed terrorist groups or the so called 'moderate' militants.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad performed Eid al-Fitr prayers on Wednesday in the western city of Homs.
Local media reported that Assad attended Eid al-Fitr prayers at al-Safa Mosque in Akrama neighborhood in Homs.
Large parts of Homs were once under the control of insurgents fighting the Syrian government, but since May 2014 they have been confined to a single neighborhood in the city's outskirts.
State television broadcast footage of the president in the congregation alongside Islamic Endowments Minister Mohammad Abdel-Sattar Sayyed and Grand Mufti Sheikh Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun.
Eid al-Fitr is a Muslim religious holiday that marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan.
Syria has been gripped by a deadly insurgency since March 2011 and the Damascus government blames the Israeli regime and its Western and regional allies mainly Turkey, Qatar and the Saudi regime for aiding foreign Takfiri terrorist groups operating inside the Arab country.
