At Least 6 Dead in Regime, Rebel Attacks on Syria's Aleppo

At least six people, half of them children, were killed in regime and rebel bombardment of Syria's northern city of Aleppo on Monday, civil defense officials and a monitor said.

Three civilians, including a child, were killed when the regime fired two rockets on the rebel-controlled east of the city, the civil defense said.

And another three people, including two children, died in shelling by rebels of regime-controlled areas in the west, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Inside the rebel-held east, residents enduring water cuts and a power blackout reported intermittent shelling and rocket fire.

Opposition-run schools have remained shut since Saturday for fear of air strikes.

Monday's attacks follow renewed violence in the city that killed at least 26 civilians at the weekend.

The violence came as a major breach of a fragile eight-week ceasefire between the regime and non-jihadist rebels and as U.N.-brokered peace talks stall in Geneva.

More than 270,000 people have been killed since Syria's conflict erupted in 2011.