ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Several airstrikes carried out over Syria’s Aleppo and Idilb on Tuesday killed more than 60 civilians a day after the representative of the Syrian opposition at the Geneva peace talks resigned, claiming the talks weren’t making any progress. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor group reported that seven of the victims were children. The group believes Russian warplanes carried out the strikes that included targeting a hospital and a mosque. Also in Aleppo the Observatory group reported that at least 35 people were killed in clashes between regime forces and rebel fighters. At least five were killed in Aleppo’s Kurdish-majority Sheikh Maqsuoud neighborhood by shelling – likely carried out by Islamist militants who have been bombarding the neighborhood for months. The group also reported on Monday that it has been able to document 6,340 deaths in Syria since the Russian campaign in the country began on September 30th. Out of those 6,340 deaths 2,099 were Syrian civilians – 500 of whom were children, 2,270 were members of Islamic State (ISIS) and the other 1,971 were militants from other groups like Jabhat al-Nusra. These latest strikes come a mere day after Mohammed Alloush, the chief negotiator on behalf of the umbrella Saudi-backed Higher Negotiations Committee (HNC), resigned saying the talks were making no progress. The HNC wanted an end to airstrikes and sieges against opposition-held areas in Syria, the release of political detainees and a transition process which would see President Bashar al-Assad replaced. Alloush doesn’t believe progress is being made on meeting these key opposition demands.
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