Rebels on Sunday retook an area in Aleppo that fell to government forces the day before, extending a punishing stalemate in the contested northern city. A broad coalition of Syrian rebels denounced international negotiations for peace as “meaningless” on Sunday, as the U.N. Security Council prepared to convene an emergency meeting about the spiraling violence in Syria. Rebels on Sunday retook an area in Aleppo that fell to government forces the day before, extending a punishing stalemate in the contested northern city. Government forces seized the Castello Road earlier this year, besieging rebel-held districts where some 250,000 people reside. Yasser al-Yousef, a spokesman for the Nour el-Din al-Zinki rebel faction, says rebels seized Handarat late Saturday night.

Source: The Hindu September 25, 2016 14:12 UTC