Air strike hits Syrian market, opposition says truce must be respected

GENEVA Syrian government forces backed by Russian air strikes committed a "massacre" of scores of civilians around Aleppo on Monday, part of a pattern of breaches of a two-week truce, opposition coordinator Riad Hijab told reporters on a teleconference.


Hijab said the latest fighting, as well as arrests by Syrian government forces, were causing the opposition to consider whether it should attend a round of peace talks in Geneva.


"It will be before the end of this week, there will be a clear decision about this," Hijab said.


(Reporting by Tom Miles, editing by Stephanie Nebehay)




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