“Aleppo, a city consumed, is stuck between rocks and missiles. The Middle East faces a staggering humanitarian crisis caused by the conflict in Syria. With more than 600,000 Syrians having fled the country, the International Rescue Committee is calling on the outside world to step up its response. The World Food Program said it is helping 1.5 million Syrians, but continued fighting and an inability to use the port of Tartus to deliver food mean many people are not receiving aid. Syria’s violence has reached unprecedented levels of horror, with the Assad regime and the rebels ‘cooperating to destroy Syria,’ in the words of UN special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi.”