(MENAFN) Barack Obama said he is "not optimistic" about Syria's future, as the UN warned time is running out to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe in Aleppo which has been pounded by air strikes for nearly a week.
In detail, government forces launched an assault last Tuesday to recapture eastern Aleppo, killing 115 civilians so far. In fresh fighting on Sunday at least eight children died when rebel rocket fire hit their school in the government-controlled west.
The outgoing US president gave warning that Syria's second city was likely to fall, and that Russian and Iranian backing for Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad had made the situation untenable for the opposition.
"I am not optimistic about the short-term prospects in Syria," he said Sunday at a summit of Pacific leaders in Lima.
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