All Syria Parties Must Commit To Aleppo Aid Truce: UN

The U.N. Aid chief has said that the United Nations is ready to deliver aid into Syria’s Aleppo, but needs commitments from all parties to abide by a 48 hour humanitarian Truce, Aleppo, Syria’s most populous pre-war city and its commercial hub, has become the focus of fighting in the five-year-old civil war. Up to 2 million people on both sides do not have clean water after infrastructure was damaged in bombing. Syrian U.N. Ambassador Bashar Ja’afari told the council that the Syrian government was not responsible for an air strike in rebel-held al-Qaterji last week.