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Fighting has resumed in the Syrian city of Aleppo, a day after the end of a 72-hour “humanitarian” cease-fire that had been declared by Damascus and its main ally, Russia.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said air strikes and artillery fire hit the besieged, rebel-held eastern districts of Aleppo on October 23.

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