On Wednesday 7 December, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel, British, Italian, and Canadian Prime Ministers Theresa May, Matteo Renzi and Justin Trudeau, and French and US Presidents François Hollande and Barack Obama called for a ceasefire in Aleppo, Syria. Government forces now control nearly half of eastern Aleppo, to the detriment of the rebels.
"The urgent need now is for an immediate ceasefire to allow the United Nations to get humanitarian assistance to people in eastern Aleppo and...