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| The Latest: Envoy: UN agency explores de-mining in Palmyra | |
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| BEIRUT — The Latest on Syria’s civil war as another round of peace talks gets under way in Geneva (all times local): | BEIRUT — The Latest on Syria’s civil war as another round of peace talks gets under way in Geneva (all times local): |
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| The United Nations envoy for Syria says a specialized U.N. agency is exploring ways to join Russia in de-mining operations in the historic city of Palmyra that government forces recently recovered from control of the radical Islamic State group. | |
| A day after peace talk resumed in Geneva, Staffan de Mistura spoke to reporters about the U.N.-led efforts to deliver humanitarian aid to the war-torn country and ahead of the planned Friday arrival of a government delegation for the talks. | |
| De Mistura said the international community wants to send “an important signal” about the restoration of Palymra, which government troops recaptured from IS last month. | |
| He said de-mining agency UNMAS briefed a humanitarian aid task force linked to the talks on Thursday about how it could contribute to de-mining efforts in Palmyra. | |
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| A Turkish news agency says the U.S. led coalition has been targeting Islamic State militants in Syrian villages near the border with Turkey. | A Turkish news agency says the U.S. led coalition has been targeting Islamic State militants in Syrian villages near the border with Turkey. |
| The private Dogan news agency says coalition jets on Thursday hit IS positions in the villages of Sawran, Souran, Hawar al-Nahr and Kafra. | The private Dogan news agency says coalition jets on Thursday hit IS positions in the villages of Sawran, Souran, Hawar al-Nahr and Kafra. |
| The militant IS group and al-Qaida’s Syria branch known as Nusra Front are not part of a U.S.-Russia-brokered cease-fire in Syria. | The militant IS group and al-Qaida’s Syria branch known as Nusra Front are not part of a U.S.-Russia-brokered cease-fire in Syria. |
| The villages lie across the border from the Turkish town of Kilis, which has been the scene of near-daily rockets and shelling from IS-controlled territory in Syria. One person was killed and several people were wounded from such rocket fire on Wednesday. | The villages lie across the border from the Turkish town of Kilis, which has been the scene of near-daily rockets and shelling from IS-controlled territory in Syria. One person was killed and several people were wounded from such rocket fire on Wednesday. |
| Dogan says smoke is rising from the airstrikes and that sounds of explosion and gunfire can be heard from across the border. | Dogan says smoke is rising from the airstrikes and that sounds of explosion and gunfire can be heard from across the border. |
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| 10:45 a.m. | 10:45 a.m. |
| Syrian activists and state media are reporting an exchange of shelling in the northern city of Aleppo on the second day of the new round of peace talks in Geneva. | Syrian activists and state media are reporting an exchange of shelling in the northern city of Aleppo on the second day of the new round of peace talks in Geneva. |
| The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Aleppo-based activist Bahaa al-Halaby say government warplanes, helicopter gunships and artillery have been bombarding rebel-held parts of the city on Thursday. | The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Aleppo-based activist Bahaa al-Halaby say government warplanes, helicopter gunships and artillery have been bombarding rebel-held parts of the city on Thursday. |
| The pro-government Addounia TV says one person was killed and five were wounded by mortar rounds fired by insurgents into the predominantly Kurdish Sheikh Maqsoud district of the city. | The pro-government Addounia TV says one person was killed and five were wounded by mortar rounds fired by insurgents into the predominantly Kurdish Sheikh Maqsoud district of the city. |
| Aleppo has seen sporadic clashes despite a U.S.-Russia-engineered that went into effect in late February. | Aleppo has seen sporadic clashes despite a U.S.-Russia-engineered that went into effect in late February. |
| Government forces and their allies have rebel-held parts of Aleppo almost surrounded from all sides, except for a corridor from the northwestern edge of the city. | Government forces and their allies have rebel-held parts of Aleppo almost surrounded from all sides, except for a corridor from the northwestern edge of the city. |
| Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. | Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. |