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U.S.-led air strikes targeting Islamic State (IS) militants have killed scores of Syrian civilians in recent days, media and human rights monitor groups report.

At least 21 Syrian civilians, including a mother and her six children, were killed in two separate U.S.-led air strikes over the weekend, human rights monitor groups said on Saturday.

More innocent Syrian civilians were killed last month by bombs dropped by the U.S.-led coalition then by Russian or Islamic State (IS) forces fighting in the civil war there, figures from a leading human rights monitor reveal.

U.S. forces launched dozens of cruise missiles against Syrian military targets on Thursday in response to a deadly chemical attack attributed to embattled dictator Bashar al-Assad's forces.

An airstrike by US-led coalition warplanes, most likely American, killed a family of seven in Syria's northern Aleppo province on Monday, while dozens of civilians were killed by Syrian government forces throughout the war-ravaged nation.

Aleppo - Many Syrian Christians have already fled the country and those who have remained have mostly stayed out of the conflict even though they have often been attacked by Islamist rebel groups who accuse them of being pro-Assad.

Cairo - The Arab League chief Nabil el-Araby said that he was informed by international envoy Lakhdar Brahimi that the Geneva 2 talks will start on November 23.

Damascus - According to the Russian Sergei Lavrov, it is the Syrian rebels who are responsible for the August 21 chemical attack on Damascus suburbs and Russia has substantial proof which it plans to discuss at the UN Security council.

Stockholm - In a bold and generous move, Sweden announced last week that it would grant asylum to all Syrians fleeing that country's two-year civil war.

Damascus - Recent allegations of chemical weapons use by the Syrian government that reportedly killed hundreds, especially women and children, has finally propelled the US to act despite lack of solid political support from Americans.

Antakya - The Syrian rebel military chief Salim Idriss said that the opposition would not enter any negotiations until the rebels controlled Aleppo, Damascus, and Deraa and also Bashar al-Assad and his generals had left the country.

The need for a robust and effective arms trade treaty is now more crucial than ever in a world where twice as many bullets are manufactured each year than there are people on the planet.

Syrian Prime Minister Riad Hijab has defected from President Bashar al-Assad's regime to join anti-government rebels fighting for control of the country, his spokesman said on Monday.

Damascus - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) announced on Sunday that the conflict that has wracked Syria since March 2011 and claimed more than 10,000 lives is now a full-blown civil war throughout the entire nation.