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State Department Denies Abandoning Aleppo in Russian Ceasefire Deal

Foreign Policy: The United States denied Friday that it was neglecting besieged Syrians in the city of Aleppo after Russian media reports disclosed a U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement that excluded the partially rebel-held city.

Aleppo has become the main battleground in the the latest flare-up of fighting between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime and rebels seeking to oust him. On Friday, the city in northwest Syria came under another deadly barrage of airstrikes and shelling, including on a mosque and a clinic. The assaults — which involve both regime airstrikes and rebel attacks on pro-government neighborhoods — have killed 200 people in the last week, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

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