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Aleppo - hopes a truce is only "hours away"

Russia's Foreign Minister tells reporters it is hoped a unilateral truce declared by the Syrian military could be extended to Aleppo within a matter of hours.

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US urges Russia to rein in Damascus after upsurge in Syria violence

There have been stark warnings about the war in Syria following the recent increase in fighting in Aleppo that’s sabotaged a ceasefire and peace

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Saving Syria: Kerry hopes to salvage the talks

The US secretary of state has met UN special envoy Staffan de Mistura and Arab foreign ministers in Geneva

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Kerry arrives in Geneva to push for Syrian ceasefire to include Aleppo

Kerry in Geneva to get ceasefire for Aleppo “Regime of calm” said to be under negotiation 250 people killed in Aleppo in recent days Attempts are

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Syria: Russia 'seeks truce for Aleppo' after wave of deadly bombings

Russia says talks are taking place to include Syria’s Aleppo province in the latest temporary truce – as once again the diplomatic machine cranks

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Russia will not ask Syria to halt air strikes on Aleppo

Media reports claim Russia will not try to persuade Bashar al-Assad to call a halt to air strikes on Aleppo. The bombardment of Syria’s second city

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Air strikes and shelling cause more deaths in Aleppo

Aleppo sustained another day of air strikes and shelling on Friday. A week of fierce fighting in Syria’s second city has seen at least 200 people

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The United Nations appeals to save the truce and negotiations in Syria

The United Nations has appealed to the United States and Russia to act to save the “cessation of hostilities” and the negotiations between the Syrian

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Syria: Aleppo hit again as death toll from earlier hospital attack 'rises to 50'

There was more chaos and panic on the streets of Aleppo on Friday as fresh airstrikes hit the northern Syrian city after only a brief respite

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UN urges restraint in Syrian conflict as peace talks stumble on

Euronews correspondent Sándor Zsiros spoke with UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson during his visit to Brussels this week. In this excerpt of

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Aleppo airstrike agony

The aftermath of an airstrike in the Kallasa and Bustan al-Qasr neighbourhoods of Aleppo, Syria. The attack follows the deadly bombing of a hospital

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Aid lifeline at risk for millions in Syria

NGOs and Aid agencies say up to a quarter of a million people are trapped in Aleppo and that the aid lifeline that delivers supplies to them and

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Aleppo - six days of air strikes kill an estimated 200 people

The United Nations has described the situation in the Syrian city of Aleppo as ‘catastrophic’. A human rights group estimates that six days of air

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Turkey: e-Food cards for refugees

The scale of the Syrian refugee crisis means the corresponding aid effort has been immense. Turkey is bearing an immense burden, but while no-one is starving thanks to local and international efforts,

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'Catastrophic' situation in Syria after hospital airstrikes, says UN

The United Nations says the situation in the Syrian city of Aleppo is “catastrophic” after deadly airstrikes on a hospital. Activists say the dead

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Fatal airstrikes destroy hospital in the Syrian city of Aleppo

At least 30 people have been killed after a series of airstrikes hit a hospital in the the rebel-held area of the disputed Syrian city of Aleppo.

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UN envoy urges US, Russia to salvage "barely alive" Syrian truce

Staffan de Mistura says the two-month old Syrian ceasefire "hangs by a thread."

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Deadly rocket fire from Syria in Turkish border town

One person was killed and 26 others injured on Sunday in the Turkish border town of Kilis after rockets were fired from a region of Syria controlled

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Tensions flare in Syria as peace talks limp on

An amateur video has emerged purporting to show chaos in Syria as fragile peace talks limp on in Geneva. A clip posted on social media claims to give

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ISIL claims to have shot down Syrian plane and captured pilot

ISIL fighters said they had shot down a government warplane in Syria on Friday. They released footage of what they said was the burning wreckage of

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