DAMASCUS: Syria and its ally Russia denounced Friday a US pledge to provide direct aid to rebel fighters, saying it will fuel more violence in the nearly two-year war that has killed at least 70,000 people.
The opposition, meanwhile, accused Syrian regime forces of carrying out a new "massacre" at a village in the northern province of Aleppo, with 72 people executed and burned in a raid this week.
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