The BBC reported that fighting between the Syrian Government forces backed by Russian Federation and rebels has created a warlike situation in the city and has left hundreds dead.
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The Syrian opposition has said it wants to see a credible pause in the bloodshed and improved humanitarian aid access to Aleppo before peace talks can resume.
Amnesty International said Thursday that Syrian authorities were committing torture on a “massive scale” in government prisons including beatings, electric shocks, rape and psychological abuse that amount to crimes against humanity.
Syrian and Russian aircraft have launched intense air strikes on opposition strongholds in northern Syria to prevent rebels sending reinforcements to a crucial battle in Aleppo, a monitor said on Thursday.
The situation risks bringing the United States and Syrian government into direct conflict for the first time after American jets were scrambled to prevent the bombing of special forces and allies on the ground.
Some two million people on both sides of the divided city have been without running water for almost two weeks after infrastructure was damaged by bombing earlier this month.
Russian Federation on Thursday said it supported the idea of weekly 48-hour ceasefires to allow humanitarian aid to enter besieged parts of Aleppo, a plan the rebels also cautiously welcomed.
The statistics with which we report the war in Syria are astounding.
The real question is what kind of mileage will this image have and will it carry a real effect on the situation in Syria.
Kurdi said she doesn’t support one side or the other in the Syrian conflict, but she’s frustrated by what she calls the Western media’s one-sided coverage of the war.
“Not one single humanitarian convoy has so far reached any of the besieged areas this month – not one single convoy, and why?”
This week, maybe the face of a small boy, silent and sad-eyed in a hellish landscape, will provoke more people to look more deeply into Syria, and themselves. De Mistura said introducing such measures should be left to the United Nations and its partners, and said that no one should be forced to leave.
It says almost 18,000 people have died in custody since the crisis began in March 2011, but the group believes that number is a low estimate and the true figure is much higher.
The UN’s deputy secretary-general said he hoped Omran’s story and image would get to people’s hearts and brains. Roughly 1 in 4 refugees in the world today, nearly five million people, are Syrian.
“I think this is an illustration of the huge tragedy that the Syrian people are going through. But in Syria they wake up to constant nightmares”.
Even amid the ravages of Syria’s five-year conflict, the plight of Aleppo stands out.
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“This is like an infected wound in world politics”, Eliasson said.
