Syria truce in tatters as jets bomb capital The violence came on the third day of what was meant to be a four-day truce to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha. The ceasefire began on Friday morning, but failed to take hold from the start. According to a British based monitoring group, Syrian warplanes struck the eastern Damascus suburbs of Arbeen, Harasta and Zamalka yesterday to try to drive out rebels. Harasta is a key supply route for the rebel-held suburb of Douma on the northern outskirts. Reports suggested eight people were killed in the capital. Meanwhile in Douma itself, rebels wrested three positions from regime forces, including an unfinished high-rise building used by regime snipers. Intense fighting continues in the suburbs, with the government claiming repeated bombings by what it calls "militant terrorists" and activists claiming repeated atrocities by regime forces. Mousab Azzawi, of the London-based Syrian Network of Human Rights, said members of a pro-Assad militia had started to dump the bodies of up to 200 men who had disappeared from the district of Modamiat al-Sham in the last week on roadsides. There was no independent verification of the claim. Fighting was also reported yesterday near Maaret al-Numan, a town along the Aleppo-Damascus highway that rebels seized this month. On Saturday, the second day of the ceasefire, the death toll was estimated at between 91 and 114, including five women and six children. About 40 of the total were in Damascus. The figures are lower than in the worst days of the fighting in the last two months but suggest little hope of the truce being extended or becoming a longer-term peace settlement, the ambition of Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN envoy who negotiated the truce, the first in six months. Mr Brahimi is expected to return for further talks with the UN security council, which voted unanimously to support the ceasefire, but it is not clear what proposals he can make that would persuade either the regime or the rebels to give up what both sides claim is a winning position. Some of the more radical rebel groups, such as the militant Islamists Jabhat al-Nusra, had rejected the ceasefire out of hand, and these groups are becoming stronger in the fighting. Jabhat al-Nusra has been accused of being part of a rebel attack on Kurdish and Christian quarters of Aleppo on Thursday, which led to bloody clashes lasting until late on Friday night.