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Aleppo Ceasefire Broken, Evacuation Efforts Halted

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Evacuation efforts in the ravaged Syrian city of Aleppo have come to a halt as the latest truce brokered by Russia and Turkey has failed.
 
More than 100,000 people have already fled the city and thousands more are trapped in the rubble in what is now being labeled as "one of the worst humanitarian crisis of our time," The Jerusalem Post reported. 

But evacuation buses have been leaving eastern Aleppo without any passengers. 

Heavy shelling, rocket fire, and air raids by fighter jets have resumed just a day after a ceasefire was announced.
 
Syrian opposition groups blame Iranian fighters allied with President Bashar al-Assad's forces for the renewed shelling.

"The ceasefire agreement that started yesterday seems to have been violated. Tens of artillery are falling on besieged neighborhoods in Aleppo. There are wounded in the field hospitals, wounded from the shelling," the AMC activist al-Ashkar said in a video posted to social media.

However, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said the Syrian regime has been trying to break the ceasefire. 

"We see (the) regime and some forces trying to break the ceasefire. There is Russia here. There is Iran. There are forces supported by Iran and of course regime. What we want is that nobody should try to throw the ball to others. There is an agreement here and it should be applied," he told the Turkish state-run news agency Anadolu.

The attacks have halted plans to evacuate tens thousands of civilians, in a move that would have sealed the opposition's surrender of the city.

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