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Warplanes hit Syria s 2nd city

80 killed; US warns regime on chemical weapon use

Agencies
Fighter jets yesterday bombed eastern areas of Syria's second city Aleppo, reporters near the city said as US warns regime of over its threat to use chemical weapon.
The attack is seen as a significant escalation in the conflict. It is thought to be the first time that warplanes have been used in Aleppo, our correspondent says.
Rebels launched an offensive against Aleppo at the weekend in an attempt to wrest control of the city from the army. Fierce fighting has been reported close to Aleppo's historic Old City.
Helicopter gunships were reportedly involved in the clashes earlieryesterday.
Pro-government troops bombarded the city, Syria's commercial centre, with shells and rocket fire as the government attempted to take back districts seized by the rebels.
A French correspondent there has spoken of rebels besieging a police headquarters close to the walls of the Old City, which is a world heritage site.
Government forces have already regained control of most areas of Damascus that were captured by rebels last week. There are unconfirmed reports of troops carrying out raids on the Qadam and Assali areas of the city.
State television has broadcast video of soldiers apparently securing and checking heavily shelled suburbs in the south of the capital.
The battle for Aleppo, Syria's most populous city, appears to have spread to much of the city, with rebels claiming control of several areas.
State forces appear to have focused their counter-attackon the Sakhour area to the east of the city centre, where rebels destroyed several tanks on Monday, the BBC's Jim Muir reports from neighbouring Lebanon.
The violence yesterday claimed the lives of 80 people in Syria, according to the opposition Local Co-
ordination Committees, including20 in Aleppo.
Thirteen people died in a revolt in Aleppo prison, activists said, when security forces reportedly opened fire and used teargas on detainees.
Explosions and fires have also been reported from the jail in Homs where asimilar mutiny tookplace.
Hundreds of refugees appear to have become caught up in violence while trying to flee the country across its eastern border with Iraq.
Three people were wounded when Syrian forces shelled the Syrian side of the Boukamal crossing on the Euphrates river, where a crowd of Iraqis and Syrians were waiting to leave, a source has told the BBC.
As the batde for control of Syria's biggest cities spreads, international concern about Syria's chemical weapons stockpile has spread to its ally, Russia.
The US and the UN have already issued a warning to Damascus, after a Syrian spokesman said its weapons would never be used internally but could be deployed against "external aggression".
US President Obama responded swiftly.
"Given the regime's stockpile of chemical weapons, we will continue to make it clear to Assad and those around him that the world is watching," Obama told an audience of US veterans in the western US state of Nevada.