Thousands of people fled the front lines of fighting in Aleppo on Tuesday as the Syrian military advanced on the city’s final pocket of rebel resistance.

The rout of rebels from more than half of their ever-shrinking territory in aleppo sparked a mass flight of civilians and insurgents amid bitter weather.

The UN Human Rights Office said it received reports of abuses, including that the army and allied Iraqi militiamen summarily killed at least 82-civilians in captured city districts.

Turkish and Russian officials will meet on Wednesday to discuss a possible ceasefire and the opening of a corridor;

But international efforts to seek a negotiated settlement to end fighting in Aleppo have shown no signs of a breakthrough, with Russia and the United States exchanging recriminations over hitches in ceasefire talks.

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