The Human rights observers estimate up to 300 people have died in the last two weeks, killed as government forces and Syrian rebels battled for control of the country's largest city and in the most recent fighting, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said dozens of people were killed, although the exact number is in dispute.
On Wednesday the US officials has said that an agreement was reached with Russia to extend Syria's fragile truce to Aleppo, despite the upsurge in violence and it is understood that the agreement was reached late on Tuesday and took effect at 12.01am on Wednesday.
The UN envoy for Syria Steffan di Mistura has said that if the ceasefire failed, the consequences could be catastrophic with the possibility that 400,000 people could head for the Turkish border. On the same day, the United Nations Security Council unanimously passed a resolution, condemning attacks on health facilities.
Meanwhile, the commander of Jordan's Border Guard Forces said the number of Syrian refugees gathered on the Jordanian border, waiting to enter his country, has risen to a new high of 59,000.A 27 February truce between the Syrian government and rebel forces effectively collapsed, although Russia had earlier indicated it could be extended.
