14-12-2016 18:09 via uk.news.yahoo.com

Risk of atrocities not over despite Aleppo ceasefire

By Astrid Zweynert and Umberto Bacchi LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A plan to evacuate civilians from eastern Aleppo stalled on Wednesday as renewed air strikes and shelling rocked the city. A ceasefire brokered on Tuesday by Russia and Turkey was intended to end years of fighting in the city, giving Syrian President Bashar al-Assad his biggest victory in more than five years of war. Here are the views of some aid agencies and human rights organisations on the humanitarian situation in e
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