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Airstrikes hit Aleppo one day after truce takes effect

Published February 28th, 2016 - 01:04 GMT
Members of the government forces install a retractable military bridge to cross a trench on the eastern outskirts of the Syria's northern embattled city of Aleppo after they re-took the area from Daesh fighters on February 21, 2016. (AFP/George Ourfalian)
Members of the government forces install a retractable military bridge to cross a trench on the eastern outskirts of the Syria's northern embattled city of Aleppo after they re-took the area from Daesh fighters on February 21, 2016. (AFP/George Ourfalian)

Military aircraft on Sunday attacked six towns in western Syria and near Aleppo, according to eyewitnesses. 

The London-based Syrian Observatory of Human Rights says the attacks were reported by activists on the scene.

Rebel fighters informed the group about the attacks, but the identity of the planes is not yet clear.
 
It comes after an internationally-brokered ceasefire began at midnight on Saturday. News of the attacks comes from Syrian opposition forces, who claim the planes were of Russian originThis has not been officially confirmed.
 
The Russian coordination center in Syria says it has received information of an attack from Turkish terrritory on the Syrian town of Tel Abyad, according the Interfax agency quoting the Russian Ministry of Defense.
 

Quoting the head of the coordination centre, the agency says Moscow has contacted a US centre in Amman for clarification.

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