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Join on Telegram Beirut – Over 100 people have been killed in a series of airstrikes in the Syrian cities of Aleppo and Idlib, hours after the US and Russia announced plans for a nationwide ceasefire to begin on Monday.
In Idlib, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that 58 people were killed in a series of bombings, including one on a vegetable market, with 13 children among the dead.
In Aleppo, at least 30 people died when barrel bombs were dropped from army helicopters in the east and further civilian deaths were reported elsewhere in the city and across the province.
These hostilities came as a new ceasefire, agreed as part of a deal brokered by Russia and the USA, was set to begin on Monday, the first day of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.
With MAP
