Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem said restoring government rule was a matter of "national sovereignty," and that Damascus would not allow the people of eastern Aleppo to be "hostages to 6,000 gunmen." "We agreed on the need that terrorists should get out of east Aleppo to end the suffering of the civilians in the city," he said. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem sits beneath a portrait of Syrian President Bashar Assad a in Damascus, Syria on Sunday. Injured boys react at a field hospital after airstrikes on the rebel held areas of Aleppo, Syria on Friday. (Ameer Alhalbi/AFP/Getty Images)8 children killed in school attackEarlier Sunday, at least eight children were killed when rockets struck a school in government-held western Aleppo, the Observatory said.

Source: CBC News November 21, 2016 08:37 UTC