200 killed in fighting near Syria's Aleppo this week: monitor

April 15, 2016 17:52

At least 210 combatants in Syria's civil war have died in a surge in violence around the second city of Aleppo this week, a monitoring group said today.

Among those killed from Sunday till yesterday were 82 army troops and pro-regime militiamen, 94 members of the al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Nusra Front and allied rebel groups, and 34 Islamic State group jihadists, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

The spike in violence, which has threatened to derail a shaky truce, has seen multiple fronts around Syria's second city flare up as a new round of peace talks got under way in Geneva.

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