Syrian government forces seized control of the last rebel supply routes into eastern Aleppo city on Wednesday, in what a monitoring group said was their most significant advance in the province since 2013.
The siege of eastern districts of Aleppo, Syria’s former commercial capital, has prompted the United Nations humanitarian chief to call for a weekly 48-hour humanitarian pause as an estimated 275,000 civilians remain trapped. Food supplies could be exhausted by mid-August, he said. The city has been divided between government and opposition forces since 2012, with clashes intensifying in recent weeks.
