Al Jazeera News :
Air strikes on two markets in Syria have killed more than 50 people, local sources told Al Jazeera, as opposition negotiators said that they were leaving peace talks held in Geneva.
The strikes in the northwest of the country were among the worst since a ceasefire was called at the end of February, Rami Abdulrahman, chief of the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said.
The opposition Higher Negotiations Committee
(HNC) bloc announced that its delegation was leaving Geneva because no advances were made in the talks.
Riad Hijab, the head of the HNC, had earlier warned that the delegation would leave Switzerland if attacks on rebel-held towns would not stop.
It was not clear if Tuesday’s air strikes were carried out by Syrian or Russian planes that have been deployed to Syria to support President Bashar al-Assad.
Air strikes on two markets in Syria have killed more than 50 people, local sources told Al Jazeera, as opposition negotiators said that they were leaving peace talks held in Geneva.
The strikes in the northwest of the country were among the worst since a ceasefire was called at the end of February, Rami Abdulrahman, chief of the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said.
The opposition Higher Negotiations Committee
(HNC) bloc announced that its delegation was leaving Geneva because no advances were made in the talks.
Riad Hijab, the head of the HNC, had earlier warned that the delegation would leave Switzerland if attacks on rebel-held towns would not stop.
It was not clear if Tuesday’s air strikes were carried out by Syrian or Russian planes that have been deployed to Syria to support President Bashar al-Assad.
