UNITED NATIONS––Pressure on Syria and its main ally, Russia, intensified at the United Nations on Friday when the organization’s top human-rights official said the bombardment of Aleppo amounted to war crimes. The U.N.’s 47-member Human Rights Council voted in Geneva to start an independent special inquiry into human-rights violations in Aleppo and to refer the perpetrators to the International Criminal Court. The resolution,...

Source: Wall Street Journal October 21, 2016 23:37 UTC