UN Aid Chief: Aleppo Is ‘a Kill Zone’

The United Nations humanitarian chief said Wednesday that Syria’s eastern Aleppo has essentially become a “kill zone” with more than 400 people slain and nearly 2,000 wounded in the past month. “So many of them, too many of them, were children,” Stephen O’Brien told the U.N. Security Council in his monthly report on the organization’s ability to get humanitarian assistance to residents of the war-torn country. “At the very minimum, I call upon all council members who have operational...

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