Nagorno Karabakh Defence Ministry reports that during the Vienna-hosted meeting between Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents Azerbaijan took steps to destabilizing the situation on the on the contact line.

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Rebels seized a village from government forces near Aleppo overnight, a monitoring group and rebel sources said on Friday, gaining important ground near the Syrian city where the United States and Russia are trying to de-escalate the war.

BBC - Relief agencies have been evacuating 500 wounded people from four besieged Syrian towns, in what has been described as the largest such operation so far in the five-year conflict.

On the night of April 6-7, the Azerbaijani forces initiated a subversive attack in the north-eastern direction (Talish) of the contact line. Having identified the advancement of the adversary groups, Karabakh defensive troops took measures to throw the enemy back to their positions, reports the spokesman of Armenian Defense Ministry, Artsrun Hovhannisyan.

BBC - The UN is poised to begin delivering aid to people living in besieged areas of Syria making use of a truce brokered by the US and Russia.

BBC - The first major truce in Syria's five-year civil war has come into effect.

Euronews - The Syrian government said on Tuesday that it accepted a halt to “combat operations” in line with a US-Russian plan, and said it would coordinate with Moscow to decide which groups and areas would be included.

BBC - The US and Russia have announced that a planned cessation of hostilities in Syria will come into effect at midnight on 27 February.

Euronews - More than 150 people in total are said to have been killed in bomb attacks in the Syrian cities of Damascus and Homs.

BBC - World powers have agreed to seek a nationwide "cessation of hostilities" in Syria to begin in a week's time, after talks in Munich, Germany.