U.N. says nearly 1 million Syrians besieged; U.S. names, shames commanders | Reuters

By Michelle Nichols | UNITED NATIONS UNITED NATIONS The number of besieged Syrians has more than doubled over the past year to nearly one million, the United Nations aid chief told the Security Council on Monday, as the United States named 13 Syrian military commanders it accused of killing civilians. Some 850,000 of those people are besieged by government forces, the United Nations said, while the rest are trapped by Islamic State militants and other armed groups."There is nothing subtle or complicated about the practise of besiegement

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