The Syrian War After The Fall Of Aleppo

This image released by the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) shows Syrians who were displaced with their families from eastern Aleppo gathering at the collective shelter, in the village of Jibreen south of Aleppo, Syria, Monday, Dec. 12, 2016. Syria’s military said Monday it has regained control of 98 percent of eastern Aleppo, as government forces close in the last remaining sliver of a rebel enclave packed with fighters as well as tens of thousands of civilians.
This image released by the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) shows Syrians who were displaced with their families from eastern Aleppo gathering at the collective shelter, in the village of Jibreen south of Aleppo, Syria on Monday. Syria's military said Monday it has regained control of 98 percent of eastern Aleppo, as government forces close in the last remaining sliver of a rebel enclave packed with fighters as well as tens of thousands of civilians. ICRC via AP
This image released by the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) shows Syrians who were displaced with their families from eastern Aleppo gathering at the collective shelter, in the village of Jibreen south of Aleppo, Syria, Monday, Dec. 12, 2016. Syria’s military said Monday it has regained control of 98 percent of eastern Aleppo, as government forces close in the last remaining sliver of a rebel enclave packed with fighters as well as tens of thousands of civilians.
This image released by the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) shows Syrians who were displaced with their families from eastern Aleppo gathering at the collective shelter, in the village of Jibreen south of Aleppo, Syria on Monday. Syria's military said Monday it has regained control of 98 percent of eastern Aleppo, as government forces close in the last remaining sliver of a rebel enclave packed with fighters as well as tens of thousands of civilians. ICRC via AP

The Syrian War After The Fall Of Aleppo

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The UN estimates there are still about 100,000 people trapped in eastern Aleppo. It also says that it appears that hundreds of men have gone missing after leaving eastern Aleppo for the government-controlled western side of the city.

In a speech over the weekend at a meeting of foreign ministers in Paris, Secretary of State John Kerry called on the Syrian and Russian governments to provide guarantees that the opposition fighters would not be “marching into a massacre.”

“The choice for many of them as they think about it today is: ‘die in Aleppo or die in Idlib, but die.’ That’s the way they see the choice,” he said.

Dr. Zaher Sahloul, a Syrian-American physician, has made 14 humanitarian trips to Syria throughout the war. He joins us to talk about what’s happening now and what he says he fears will happen next.