The latest on fighting in Syria and Thursday’s Syria aid conference (all times local): 8:30 p.m. The aid group Mercy Corps says intensified airstrikes and fighting around Aleppo have cut off the main humanitarian route into the Syrian city, and that tens of thousands of civilians are fleeing north toward the border with Turkey. David Evans, Mercy Corps’ regional program director for the Middle East, said in a statement Thursday that “it feels like a siege of Aleppo is about to begin.” The statement […]