Syria Prez offers amnesty if rebels surrender Aleppo
Rebels in Aleppo can leave with their families if they lay down their arms, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Thursday. The amnesty offer follows two weeks of the heaviest bombardment of the five-and-a-half-year civil war. However, rebels said they had no plans to evacuate Aleppo, the last major urban area they control and denounced the offer as a deception.