UN Humanitarian Chief Frustrated By Delay In Aleppo Aid, Warns Of Crisis

The effort to deliver desperately needed humanitarian aid to Aleppo has reached crisis level with the U.N. humanitarian chief Monday urging combatants to agree to a 48-hour ceasefire or warning the world risks seeing a “humanitarian catastrophe unparalleled in the over five years” of bloodshed in Syria, The Associated Press reported. Stephen O’Brien said Aleppo is being bombed daily, including a dozen new attacks Monday and has become “the apex of horror” in “the greatest crisis of our time.” O’Brien told the Security Council “you have the power with a pen – a simple pen stroke – to allow food to people.” O'Brien said the U.N. sought to deliver aid to nearly 1 million people in besieged and...