Up to 16000 people displaced in eastern Aleppo

Some have arrived in government-held or Kurdish-controlled territory with overstuffed suitcases and bags of their possessions, but others have come empty-handed, with only the clothes on their backs.

Not a single offer to deliver humanitarian aid to the 90,000 residents living in the neighborhoods of East Aleppo that have been freed from terrorists by the Syrian army has been made by the US, UK, France, or the United Nations, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

The army and its allies said they had taken the Sheikh Saeed district in the south of the city on Wednesday.

Diplomats hope to finally address the need for desperately needed assistance to the city, which is besieged by a government offensive trying to recapture parts of it held by rebels.

But western diplomats are warning Russian Federation that even if Aleppo fell and the trade route to the south reopened, the Syrian rebellion would turn from a war of territory into an insurgency – in essence a guerrilla campaign conducted with arms supplied by the rebels’ sponsors such as Saudi Arabia.

She also expressed concerns that upon reaching Government-controlled or Kurdish-controlled areas, civilians perceived to have links or connections with armed opposition groups may be detained.

Some are taking refuge in mosques while others moved to homes of displaced people in safer areas, he added.

Meanwhile, eight civilians, including two children, were killed in shelling on the government-held western side of the city, according to state media.

Three people were killed and 29 wounded in rebel fire on western Aleppo on Monday, state media said.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces intensified their push for control over eastern Aleppo earlier this month. They eliminated the last rebel-held foothold in the city of Homs.

Numerous civilians that have been displaced have fled to government and Kurdish-controlled zones.

“This is the decision of the factions”.

The Syrian government has said on several occasions it would offer amnesty to rebels who cross into its territory in Aleppo, and would accept civilians as part of a “national reconciliation” against “terrorism”.

The neighborhood and others around it in Aleppo’s centrally-located old city have absorbed thousands of residents displaced by the advance of government troops in the east.

Damascus says such reports of arbitrary detention and torture are fabricated. Jan Egeland, who chairs the UN task force on humanitarian access in Syria, said: “UN Security Council [was] created to protect civilians.it has utterly failed”.

Syria’s Aleppo has been the scene of fierce battles between Syria’s army and militants holding the city’s eastern districts.

The search and rescue team of Syrian Civil Defense says at least 25 were killed in the airstrike that hit displaced civilians fleeing from government ground advances into opposition areas.

AFP’s correspondent in a southeastern district described artillery shells “coming down like rain” on Wednesday.

Spokesman Stephane Dujarric said rebel-held parts of Aleppo had received no aid since the beginning of July, and food was becoming scarce.

“People are sleeping in the streets”. Reuters could not independently verify the date or location of the video. (They used to send them arms and money, but even that has stopped now.) And for a newly installed U.S. President Donald Trump, it would become a lot simpler to “make a deal” with Russian President Vladimir Putin to finish the job of crushing Islamic State and the Nusra Front together.

The monitor says almost 300 civilians, including 33 children, have been killed in east Aleppo since the latest government assault began on November 15.