After weeks of indiscriminate bombing, it looks like the besieged may fall in the coming weeks. Russia and Assad have relentlessly targeted civilians, including hospitals and bakeries, since the ceasefire agreement broke down a few weeks ago.
The humanitarian situation is what makes the Aleppo situation so dire. Hundreds of thousands of people are without electricity, food, water, and in need of medical assistance. Russia and Assad now seem to be using this humanitarian situation as a weapon, “The Syrian regime and its Russian backers have adopted a calculated approach of exacerbating the dire humanitarian situation in Aleppo as a weapon of war. Their apparent goal is to make living conditions in the city so intolerable that the opposition has no choice but to capitulate.”
We’ll have to wait and see what U.S. policy will be towards Aleppo in the final months of the Obama administration.