BBC: Aleppo battle: Calls to spare lives as fighting nears end
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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said people had "literally nowhere safe to run".
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon voiced alarm "over reports of atrocities against a large number of civilians".
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These claims appear to be backed up by the UN's humanitarian adviser on Syria, Jan Egeland, who said they had received "detailed reports of massacres of unarmed civilians, of young men, of women, children, health workers"....
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The US said on Monday that Russia had rejected the idea of a pause in the bombing to allow people to leave.
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Syrian troops finally broke the deadlock with the help of Iranian-backed militias and Russian air strikes, reinstating a siege on the east in early September and launching an all-out assault weeks later.