NATO says Aleppo attacks 'blatant violation of international law'

NATO says Aleppo attacks 'blatant violation of international law'

BRATISLAVA - NATO head Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday the "morally totally unacceptable" bombardment of the Syrian city of Aleppo broke international law, while urging Russia to take genuine steps to restore a ceasefire.

A Syrian man carries the body of an child retrieved from under the rubble of a building following a reported airstrike in Aleppo on September 23, 2016

"The appalling attacks on Aleppo have shaken all of us, and the violence and the attacks we have seen, also on an aid convoy, is morally totally unacceptable and is a blatant violation of international law," Stoltenberg told a news conference in Bratislava.

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