Rebels enter Aleppo three days into surprise offensive

Insurgents had recaptured territory around Syria's second city with civilians including children killed in fighting…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/29/syrian-rebels-launch-surprise-attack-on-aleppo

Business Insider: US condemns ‘sickening’ Syrian/Russian air campaign that has taken out every single hospital in eastern Aleppo

All hospitals in Syria's besieged rebel-held eastern Aleppo are out of service after days of heavy air strikes, its health directorate and the World Health Organization (WHO) said, though a war monitor said some were still functioning. ...
http://www.businessinsider.com/us-condemns-sickening-syrianrussian-air-campaign-that-has-taken-out-every-single-hospital-in-eastern-aleppo-2016-11

Putin Rejects Russian Military Request to Resume Aleppo Bombings

President Vladimir Putin rejected a request from the Russian military to resume airstrikes against militants in the Syrian city of Aleppo, the Kremlin said.

Putin “considers it possible” to continue a humanitarian pause on operations in Aleppo despite a request from the general staff to resume bombing in response to attacks from terrorist groups, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Friday on a conference call.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-28/putin-rejects-russian-military-request-to-resume-aleppo-bombings?cmpid=GP.HP

Gary Johnson says America needs a leader who doesn’t know the location of other countries

In recent weeks, Libertarian nominee and former Republican governor of New Mexico Gary Johnson has repeatedly struggled with questions about foreign policy and world affairs. In one interview, he conceded that did not know what Aleppo was and in another, he failed to name a single world leader he admires.

On Tuesday, he told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell that his lack of knowledge of foreign policy could in fact be a selling point. “The fact that somebody can dot the I’s and cross the T’s on a foreign leader or a geographic location then allows them to put our military in harm’s ways.”...
https://thinkprogress.org/gary-johnson-foreign-policy-geography-ignorance-873ec1794d53#.l75f9n1ns