Air strikes across Syria as negotiators meet

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Syrians search for survivors amidst the rubble following an airstrike in Aleppo, on December 17, 2013 (AFP Photo/Mohammed al-Khatieb)

Beirut (AFP) - Syria's air force struck rebel-held areas around Damascus and Aleppo Saturday, a monitoring group said, as face-to-face peace talks tentatively began in Switzerland.

The meeting in Geneva came after months of intense diplomacy aimed at bringing the two warring sides together, but the intense violence on the ground underscored the challenges ahead in trying to end the nearly three-year civil war.

Government warplanes fired rockets at Qadam in southern Damascus and Talfita to its north, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based group with a network of sources inside the war-torn country.

Helicopters meanwhile struck Daraya, southwest of Damascus, using TNT-laden barrels, the group added.

Rebels battled troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad on the frontlines surrounding several Damascus areas, including the besieged Yarmuk Palestinian refugee camp, it said.

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Dramatic moment men pull baby from rubble after frantically digging with their bare hands after he was buried by Syrian bomb

• A YouTube video emerged showing a toddler being dug out of rubble
• He had been completely buried following air strikes in Aleppo
• The eight-minute clip shows men digging with their bare hands to save him
  

By Ted Thornhill
PUBLISHED: 06:17 EST, 25 January 2014 | UPDATED: 07:44 EST, 25 January 2014
A toddler completely buried by rubble following air strikes in Syria has miraculously been pulled out alive by men who used their bare hands to reach him.

Incredible footage surfaced on YouTube on Friday of a group of men in rebel-held Aleppo frantically digging through pulverised rock and dust to reach the young boy.
It's not until near the two-minute mark of the eight-minute-long footage, uploaded by Syrian rebels, that the boy is first glimpsed.
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Miraculous: A toddler was pulled alive from rubble after being buried following an air strike in Aleppo, Syria

Determined: A group of men dug with their bare hands to reach the young boy

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Dramatic moment men pull baby from rubble after she was buried by Syrian bomb

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