The UN’s chief humanitarian official said the people of Aleppo are facing a humanitarian catastrophe worse than anything witnessed so far in Syria’s brutal five-year war. “It is well into its terrible descent into the pitiless and merciless abyss of a humanitarian catastrophe unlike any we have witnessed in Syria. But Kerry’s deputy Antony Blinken came under tough questioning by the Senate foreign relations committee on what the administration’s ‘plan B’ was. “There is no plan B. There never has been a plan B,” the committee chairman, Senator Bob Corker, retorted.

Source: The Guardian September 29, 2016 18:58 UTC