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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/16/world/middleeast/syria-aleppo-russia.html
Under Pressure over Aleppo Siege, Russia Hints at Seeking Deal with U.S.
(New York Times) Rick Gladstone and Alison Smale - Russia suggested on Monday that it was close to an agreement on a military collaboration with the U.S. to attack Islamic State fighters in the Aleppo area, where roughly two million civilians are trapped. Such a joint effort would be a new level of cooperation between the two powers in seeking a way out of the five-year-old Syria war, in which the Russians and Americans basically back opposite sides. A week ago, insurgents embedded in the eastern part of Aleppo broke a stalemate against Syrian military forces and their Russian allies, effectively blocking government-held western Aleppo. Since then, Syrian and Russian air bombardments of insurgent-held neighborhoods in Aleppo have left dozens of people dead.