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Aleppo: Syrian army resumes bombardment of city as fragile ceasefire crumbles Aleppo: Syrian army resumes bombardment of city as fragile ceasefire crumbles
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The Syrian army will resume its military operations in Aleppo, the Russian Defence Ministry has said, after reported rebel infringement of the fragile ceasefire.The Syrian army will resume its military operations in Aleppo, the Russian Defence Ministry has said, after reported rebel infringement of the fragile ceasefire.
Russia's Interfax news agency said that the rebel attacks had been repelled and pro-government forces would continue the operation to quash resistance in the last opposition neighbourhoods on Wednesday morning.   Rebel officials and a souce close the regime told AFP on Wednesday that the deal was on hold after government shelling hit a rebel neighbourhood, dashing the hopes of trapped civilians for a truce. 
Rebel officials reported they had been hit by around 30 minutes of shelling on the last rebel enclaves in the embattled city. A Turkey and Russia brokered ceasefire deal to bring peace to what a UN representative described as a "meltdown of humanity" went into effect on Tuesday evening. It was supposed to include the evacuation of up to 5,000 people to neighbouring rebel-held Idlib province. 
A ceasefire deal brokered by Russia and Turkey went into effect on Tuesday evening. It was supposed to include the evacuation of up to 5,000 people to neighbouring rebel-held Idlib province, although no buses have yet left the agreed checkpoints.  However, Lebanese al-Manar TV broadcast footage showing the Syrian government's green evacuation buses leaving the agreed checkpoint without any passengers, indicating the evacuations will be futher delayed and the short-lived promise of a ceasefire is over. 
It is unclear whether the evacuations will still take place. Russia's Interfax news agency said that rebel attacks at dawn on government strongholds in the northeast of Aleppo had been repelled, and pro-government forces would continue the operation to quash resistance in the last opposition neighbourhoods.  
Between 50,000 -  100,000 people are thought to still be trapped in the last slivers of rebel territory in east Aleppo after the Syrian army and Iran-backed militas captured all but a few remaining neighbourhoods in the divided city on Monday. Between 50,000 - 100,000 people are thought to still be trapped in the last slivers of rebel territory in east Aleppo after the Syrian army and Iran-backed militas captured all but a few remaining neighbourhoods in the divided city on Monday.
Reports of the executions of 82 civilians by pro-government militias, including women and children, have alarmed rights groups and the international community. Reports of the executions of 82 civilians by pro-government militias, including women and children, have alarmed rights groups and the international community, as has the destruction and death caused by incessant bombing and a collapse of medical aid. 
More to follow  Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces have all but retaken the city, which after four years of fierce fighting has become the epicentre of Syria's bloody civil war. 
Rebel supply lines were cut off in July, and an intense Russian-backed bombing campaign since September has killed hundreds, decimated medical infrastructure, and bought the last urban rebel stronghold in Syria to its knees. 
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that he expected all rebel resistance to crumble within the next two to three days.
Residents and activists in the rebel-controlled parts of the city have expressed fears that they will be detained, tortured and killed for resistance to the regime - including humanitarian workers, doctors and teachers. 
"Anyone who knows anything about the Assad regime should know what to expect. Death will be a wish for those captured and deemed [to be] opposition, weather [sic] military or civil," one wrote in a Whatsapp message to journalists.
Recapturing Aleppo will be Mr Assad's biggest victory yet in the six-year-old war - but with two thirds of Syria still controlled by the US-backed Free Syrian Army umbrella of rebel factions, extremist groups and the Kurds in the north, the complex conflict is far from over.
To date more than 400,000 people have lost their lives and half of Syria's population displaced from their homes by fighting, the UN says.