Top US Envoy: Onslaught on Aleppo Causing ‘Humanitarian Catastrophe’

The onslaught on Syria’s Aleppo is creating an “unacceptable” flood of refugees and is causing a “humanitarian catastrophe,” the top State Department official coordinating the global effort against the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group, Brett McGurk, told the House Foreign Affairs Committee Wednesday. McGurk just returned from a trip to Kobani and other areas in northern Syria and was on Capitol Hill to give the congressional panel a first-hand account of the situation there. Several...

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