Syria opposition: No Geneva talks unless Aleppo bombardment ends

Syria's opposition coalition said on Tuesday it would not attend international peace talks in Geneva next month if President Bashar Assad's forces continued a fierce air raid campaign on the northern city of Aleppo.

More than 300 people had been killed in a week of air raids on Syria's biggest city, many of them by so-called barrel bombs dropped from helicopters, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a pro-opposition monitoring group, said on Monday. (Reuters)