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Syria fighting threatens peace talks

Syrian government tanks patrol the village of Khan Tuman on the southern outskirts of the city of Aleppo (11 April 2016)

The UN is to convene a new round of indirect talks in Geneva aimed at ending the war in Syria, as fighting in Aleppo province threatens a fragile truce.

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