MOSCOW: Russia said on Sunday that talks were under way to agree a freeze in fighting in Aleppo province after the United States demanded that the Syrian regime halt their bombardment there.

"Currently active negotiations are under way to establish a 'regime of silence' in Aleppo province," Lieutenant General Sergei Kuralenko, head of Moscow's coordination center in Syria, was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies.

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