Aleppo
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Amid international outcry, UN Security Council approves monitors for Aleppo evacuation
Photo Credit: English Foreign and Commonwealth Office via Wikimedia Commons Confronted with global critiism of handling the Syrian conflict, the United Nations Security Council on Monday decided to immediately deploy UN observers in Aleppo to monitor...December 19, 2016 1158 0 -
May God be with children of Aleppo, even if world leaders are not- Malala
A child standing in front of his ground-flattened school after a bombardment in Ainjara village in rural Aleppo, Syria. Photo: UNICEF/Khalil Alshawi In an impassioned plea, Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai has urged safe passage for...December 15, 2016 1160 0 -
Before evacuation deal, Assad kills women, children in Aleppo
A child standing amid debris on a street in Aleppo. (file) Photo: OCHA/Romenzi A vague evacuation deal was reached Tuesday as killing of women and children led to international outcry and condemnations of the Bashar al...December 14, 2016 929 0 -
Half a million Syrian children under siege
Photo: On 20 November 2016, a group of children push a cart trying to sell some radish in Al-Sha’ar neighbourhood in Aleppo, Syria. Food and other basic commodities are running out at one of East Aleppo’s once...November 30, 2016 909 0 -
‘Crimes of epic proportion’ in Aleppo as ceasefire shattered
Weeks of aerial bombings by Bashar al Assad regime and Russian forces and rebel counterattacks have heaped further misery on besieged Syrian civilians in Aleppo, who have refused to leave the shattered city during a three-day...October 23, 2016 776 0
