UN envoy offers to personally escort rebels out of Aleppo
UN Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura has offered to go to eastern Aleppo to personally escort up to 1,000 Islamist fighters out of the city if it means air strikes will be halted. He also warned that the rebel-held eastern Aleppo could be destroyed by Christmas if the "cruel, constant" Russian-backed bombing of the Syrian city continues.