More Deaths In Aleppo As Obama Calls For 'Reinstated' Syria Truce
Regime and rebel bombardment killed 26 civilians on Sunday in Syria's second city Aleppo as US President Barack Obama urged the conflict's warring parties to "reinstate" a troubled ceasefire. After a brief respite, bombs fell heavily on Aleppo on Sunday, bringing the city divided between the government and rebels again to the epicentre of the Syrian war. Fighting resumed on both sides of the city after the collapse of peace talks in Geneva. The government said it began a new attack to take areas of Aleppo under rebel control, a campaign that would likely aim to seal the last route into rebel-held areas. Air strikes on rebel-held areas have resumed. All the main combatants in the multi-sided Syrian war are fighting in the Aleppo area: insurgents have been waging separate campaigns with the government, the Syrian Kurdish YPG, and Islamic State near the Turkish border. Aleppo was Syria's biggest city before the conflict, home to more than 2 million people. Today, some 300,000 are estimated to live in rebel-held areas that have sustained heavy casualties and massive destruction.
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