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Airstrikes intensify in Aleppo, ahead of US-Russia peace talks

Airstrikes intensify in Aleppo, ahead of US-Russia peace talks
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Rescue workers say at least 150 people have been killed in the eastern rebel-held sector of the city in the last few days.

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The Syrian government has renewed its offensive on Aleppo, ahead of US-Russia peace talks over the weekend.

Rescue workers say at least 150 people have been killed in the eastern rebel-held sector of the city in the last few days.

The Syrian government has given the go-ahead to UN aid convoys with the exception of Aleppo.

In the government-held western sector, at least four children were killed when shells landed near a school, in what the state news agency described as a ‘terrorist attack’.

President Bashar al-Assad told a Russian newspapers that the battle for Aleppo would be an important springboard to push ‘terrorists’ back to Turkey. He added that the civil war was now a conflict between the West and Russia.

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