Russia says talks are taking place to include Syria’s Aleppo province in the latest temporary truce – as once again the diplomatic machine cranks into gear, shaken by a series of bombings. <br /><br /> Saturday saw a ninth day of deadly bombardments in the city. A foreign-based monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said at least five people were killed in what are believed to have been government airstrikes on rebel-held districts.<br /><br /> Two-thirds of the estimated 250 civilian casualties in nine days of bombing are thought to have died in government airstrikes. <br /><br /> “At present, there is an active negotiation process taking place to establish a regime of calm also in Aleppo province,” Interfax news agency cited General Sergei Kuralenko, in charge of Russia’s ceasefire monitoring centre in Syria, as saying.<br /><br /> Moscow said on Saturday that it would not ask its ally Damascus to stop the bombing. <br /><br /> With US Secretary of State John Kerry in Geneva on Sunday for more talks, Washington has accuse
