Image Caption:At least 145 people have been killed in the last two days alone, the Civil Defence rescue service has said
The British Government has said it is not currently considering extending military involvement in Syria.
"There are no plans for military action. We are
working with the international community to look at how to bring the
conflict to an end," a spokesman for Prime Minister Theresa May said.
The
Government has been involved in bombing raids against Islamic State in
Syria since lawmakers voted for airstrikes in December 2015.
Earlier
on Thursday, Boris Johnson said Britain was looking again at its
military involvement, but any action would need to be part of a
coalition involving the United States and was not likely to happen soon.
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It comes amid intensified Syrian and Russian airstrikes targeting rebel-held districts of the Syrian city of Aleppo.
In
the last two days of bombing, at least 145 people have been killed,
according to the head of the Civil Defence rescue service there, Ammaral
Selmo.
Damascus has reportedly given the go ahead for UN convoys
to deliver aid to 25 of 29 besieged and hard-to-reach areas across the
country.
But, crucially, not to the eastern districts in Aleppo that are controlled by rebels.
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Meanwhile, Russia has said it is ready to guarantee safe passage for
rebels to quit eastern Aleppo with their weapons, as Western criticism
of its bombing campaign increases.
"We are ready to ensure the
safe withdrawal of armed rebels, the unimpeded passage of civilians to
and from eastern Aleppo, as well as the delivery of humanitarian aid
there," Russian Lieutenant General Sergei Rudskoy said in a
televised briefing.
Moscow and Washington are gearing up for talks
on Saturday, the first since the United States suspended ceasefire
negotiations with Russia in protest at the fierce assault on Aleppo.
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The northern city, once a thriving trade hub, has become a central
battleground in the five-year-Syrian war and is facing a humanitarian
disaster.
In a Sky Data poll, almost half of Britons said they
would back military intervention to stop the humanitarian crisis in
Aleppo - but not if it meant conflict with Russia.
Some 46% of
people said they would support British military involvement to end the
suffering of residents in the war-ravaged city, while 37% said they
would oppose such a move.
And 53% thought Britain had a
responsibility to do what it could to protect people in Syria, while 31%
said it was not the UK's responsibility to intervene in the war-torn
country's affairs where they did not affect British interests.
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