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IS group extremists have seized a string of opposition-held villages in Syria’s Aleppo province near the Turkish border, a monitoring group said on Thursday.
Areas around Aleppo have seen a spike in violence on several fronts in recent days, sparking concern over a fragile six-week truce as a new round of peace talks gets under way in Geneva. “Fierce clashes are raging between rebels and IS after the extremists secured an advance and seized control of six villages near the Turkish border,” the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.