Dadam confirmed that Damascus had stepped up its aerial bombardment of Aleppo in recent weeks, holding the international community responsible for the ongoing siege in the city. While Jalaluddin Khandji, Aleppo’s representative in the main opposition umbrella group, the Syrian National Coalition, called on “democratic countries and international organizations to stand with the Syrian people who have been abandoned to battle against the terrorism of both the Assad regime and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).”

http://www.aawsat.net/2014/07/article55334081 – 7/9/2014.

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