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Russia denied its warplanes carried out strikes on a Syrian hospital supported by Doctors Without Borders, as Syrian government forces and a Kurdish-led coalition advanced in the country's north.

Syria's ambassador to Russia said the hospital was destroyed by the U.S. -led coalition which is carrying out strikes against the Islamic State group in Syria.

In recent weeks Syrian government troops backed by Russian airstrikes have been advancing on Western-backed rebels and other insurgents, hoping to seal off rebel-held parts of Aleppo city. 

U.S.-allied Kurdish forces, mainly battled the Islamic State group, have been advancing in the same region, battling Syrian rebels and other insurgents in a bid to expand a nearby enclave.

Dignitaries from northern Aleppo are trying to negotiate an agreement whereby the insurgents would surrender Marea in exchange for a safe corridor to the town of Azaz, near the border with Turkey.

Turkey views the Syrian Kurdish fighters as an extension of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, which has waged a decades-long insurgency against Ankara. Turkey no plans to unilaterally send ground troops into Syria to fight ISIL.

Opinion: US should not participate in the war in Syria on behalf of Turkey or Saudi Arabia who started the civil war, created and supported ISIS. The outcome is a Refuge Chaos which will trouble Europe and USA for a long time to come. We have seen that already in France and Belgium.                                    Just a thought.