U.N. Says Aleppo Assault Likely A War Crime
Reuters
December 14, 2016 8:09 pm
By Laila Bassam, Lisa Barrington and John Davison
ALEPPO, Syria/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Plans to evacuate besieged rebel districts of Aleppo were under threat on Wednesday as renewed air strikes and shelling rocked the Syrian city in a bombardment the United Nations said “most likely constitutes war crimes”.
Iran, one of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s main backers, imposed new conditions on a ceasefire deal, saying it wanted the simultaneous evacuation of wounded from two villages besieged by rebel fighters, according to rebel and U.N. sources.
There was no sign of that happening. Instead air strikes, shelling and gunfire erupted in Aleppo and Turkey accused government forces of breaking the truce agreed less than a day before. Syrian state television said rebel shelling killed six people.
There were clashes on the ground later in the day, with rebels saying they launched an attack against government forces using suicide car bombs.
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