Church leaders have expressed outrage at the continuing attacks on civilians in Aleppo by Russian and Syrian warplanes and called for an end to airstrikes.
Thousands of civilians trapped in the besieged city of Aleppo in Syria could be able to leave on Thursday after Russia announced it would hold an eight-hour ceasefire.
At least if you get hit by a shell in Aleppo and die, you are released from pain. That was the heartbreak delivered a Catholic nun in London today, speaking about life under the constant bombardment being sufferd in Syria's second city.
Syrian rebels said they captured the village of Dabiq from Islamic State on Sunday, forcing the jihadist group from a stronghold where it had promised to fight a final, apocalyptic battle with the West.
US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov returned to Syria talks on Saturday, three weeks after the failure of their painstakingly drafted ceasefire that many saw as the last hope for peace this year.
Church bells are tolling across parts of Europe in tribute to the thousands of innocent victims being slaughtered in the ceaseless bombing of Aleppo in Syria.