The United Nations Security Council is set to vote today on whether to immediately deploy U.N. monitors to Aleppo amid a chaotic evacuation of the eastern part of the city, which was seized by Russian-backed Syrian government forces last week. The fall of eastern Aleppo, which had been controlled by anti-government rebels, represents a major turning point in the five-year civil war. Humanitarian aid organizations have warned of a slaughter of civilians, and France has argued for the deployment of U.N. monitors in order to avoid “a new Srebrenica.” Late Sunday night, the evacuations from Aleppo resumed, after being halted when a series of buses used to transport civilians out of two government-held towns in Idlib, which have been besieged by rebels, were set on fire.
U.N. Security Council to Vote on Deploying U.N. Monitors to Aleppo
HeadlineDec 19, 2016
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