U.N. Syria envoy warns Aleppo could be ‘destroyed’ this year
By BASSEM MROUE and JAMEY KEATEN, Associated Press
Published: October 6, 2016, 1:15pm
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A view towards the Turkish border from Kinsibba, Syria. Syrian opposition activists said Thursday an explosion in a village in northwestern Syria near the border with Turkey has killed at least 16 people. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)
GENEVA — The U.N. envoy for Syria called on militant fighters to leave Aleppo and for the Syrian and Russian governments to end their bombing campaign against rebel-held areas of the embattled Syrian city, warning that otherwise thousands of people could be killed by year-end and Aleppo could be “destroyed.”
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