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Syria’s UK envoy defects in disgust at Assad violence as 200,000 flee the siege of Aleppo
Mail Online – Syria’s most senior diplomat to Britain yesterday defected in ‘revulsion’ at the violence.
He deserted his post as a refugee crisis erupted in Aleppo, Syria’s largest city. Khaled al-Ayoubi, the charge d’affaires in London, told the Foreign Office he could no longer represent President Bashar al-Assad’s brutal regime. More than 200,000 have fled Aleppo after Assad unleashed helicopter gunships and fighter jets on rebels who had seized swathes of the city. An unknown number are still trapped and a serious food shortage is developing. Read Article
Tags: Humanitarian Crisis, Middle East
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