The evacuation of civilians and opposition fighters from eastern Aleppo have been suspended after rebels opened fire on a convoy at one of the crossing points of the rebel-held enclave, according to Syrian state TV.

Four Syrian organisations have said Russia bears "a high likelihood" of responsibility for 304 attacks in Aleppo that violate international humanitarian law and may constitute war crimes.

A second convoy of ambulances and buses carrying civilians and rebel fighters has left the Syrian city of Aleppo, according to Russia.

The warring sides in Syria confirmed on Thursday that the evacuation of rebel fighters and thousands of civilians from the last sliver of the besieged eastern city of Aleppo is imminent, with a Syrian army official saying all is ready for them to leave "at any moment".

Overnight talks have reinforced a ceasefire deal to allow Syrian rebels and tens of thousands of civilians to leave the war-torn eastern city of Aleppo, the media arm of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group has said.

The Syrian government's capture of eastern Aleppo, held for more than four years by rebels, marks a horrific new chapter for the country's largest city.

The remaining doctors in the square mile of eastern Aleppo under attack are "terrified" of possible retaliation from pro-government forces and want to be evacuated, Doctors Without Borders says.

A ceasefire aimed at allowing civilians to leave the ruined city of Aleppo in Syria has collapsed.

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Syrian rebels have reached a ceasefire deal to evacuate from eastern Aleppo in an effective surrender, as Russia declared all military action had stopped and the Syrian government had assumed control of the former rebel enclave.

All military action in eastern Aleppo has ended and the Syrian government has re-established control over the former rebel-held area, Russia's UN ambassador has said.

Pro-government forces have reportedly killed 82 civilians "on the spot" as they closed in on the last rebel enclave in Syria's Aleppo, the UN human rights office said.

The UN human rights office says it has received reports of Syria's pro-government forces killing at least 82 civilians as they entered the last remaining strongholds of the rebels in eastern Aleppo.

Syrian government forces are poised for the final sweep to take the last rebel holdouts in eastern Aleppo today.

Syrian government troops and allied militias have seized a wide strip on the southern edge of Aleppo from rebels, closing in on tens of thousands of civilians squeezed into the centre of the city, according to state media and an opposition monitoring group.

Russia claims the Syrian army has suspended combat operations in Aleppo to allow for the evacuation of civilians from besieged rebel-held neighbourhoods - but residents and fighters are reporting no let-up in the bombing and shelling campaign.

Russia is close to reaching a deal with the United States on a ceasefire for the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo, a Russian deputy foreign minister has said.

The Syrian army has ordered rebels in Aleppo to leave the city or face "inevitable death", as a series of air strikes on the neighbouring Idlib province killed at least 50 people, including several children.

Syrian activists say at least 21 people have been killed in an artillery barrage on a housing area for those displaced in rebel-held eastern Aleppo.

The United Nations Security Council will hold an emergency meeting later on the humanitarian crisis in the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo.

Syrian government forces have seized two new rebel-held districts in Aleppo.

Conditions in Syrian rebel-held eastern Aleppo have gone "from terrible to terrifying and now barely survivable", the UN's humanitarian chief said.

The Irish Anti-War Movement (IAWM) is holding a peace march today between the Russian and US Embassies in Dublin calling for an immediate end to the conflict in Syria.

Staff at a paediatric hospital in eastern Aleppo have scrambled to evacuate babies in incubators from underground shelters after it was bombed for the second time this week.

Airstrikes have pounded rebel-held eastern Aleppo, killing more than 20 people on the third day of a renewed air campaign there, Syrian activists and rescue workers said.

Bomb attacks have hit rebel-held eastern Aleppo for a second straight day, pounding a district that houses several medical facilities, including the central blood bank.

Air strikes have hit rebel-held eastern areas of Aleppo for the first time in three weeks, Syrian opposition activists say, amid fears it could signal the start of a new government offensive in the city.

At least seven children were among 23 killed on Sunday in northern Syria as pro-government forces kept up their campaign against opposition areas in the country's north, while rebels shelled a government-held district in Aleppo city.

At least 74 civilians, including 25 children, have been killed in the eight-day-old rebel offensive on the government-held part of Aleppo city, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

A 10-hour ceasefire in Syria to allow people to leave the besieged districts of Aleppo has ended.

A temporary halt in fighting announced by Russia to allow Syrian rebels and residents to leave besieged eastern parts of Aleppo has come into effect, with a relative calm reportedly being broken by new shelling.

A halt in fighting announced by Russia to allow rebels and residents of Syria's besieged eastern parts of Aleppo went into effect on Friday and activists reported a relative calm in the city.

Fierce fighting has broken out around the Syrian city of Aleppo after rebels launched a large-scale offensive to break the government's siege of opposition-held areas.

Children's charity Unicef has said the bombing of a school in Syria amounts to a war crime.

Air strikes in Syria have killed 17 people, mostly children, when war planes struck a school complex in the northern rebel-held province of Idlib, activists said.

Russia has withdrawn its request to refuel a fleet of Russian warships in Spain, amid pressure from Britain and Nato who raised concerns that the ships could be used to ramp up air attacks in Syria.

A leading northern Syrian rebel coalition has warned civilians in Aleppo to stay away from government positions around the contested city as rebels and pro-government forces clashed along the city's outskirts.

The Syrian government has had little response to a new corridor opened for rebels and civilians who want to leave besieged eastern neighbourhoods of Aleppo.

Turkey has escalated its offensive against Kurdish fighters in northern Syria, pounding them with air strikes and artillery, and complicating the battle against the Islamic State (IS) group by Ankara and Washington, both Nato allies.

Russian president Vladimir Putin has held out the hope of an indefinite halt to his country's air strikes on Aleppo after meeting French and German leaders, who condemned Moscow's actions in the Syrian city.