US-SYRIA-CONFLICT-ALEPPO-RESCUE

Raed Saleh, head of the white helmets of Syrian civil defence, speaks during an interview for AFP at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington on September 27, 2016. Life in Aleppo will become impossible within weeks under relentless Russian and Syrian regime air strikes, the head of the renowned White Helmets volunteer rescue force said Tuesday. But the quarter of a million civilians trapped in the besieged rebel-held east of the Syrian city believe they will be massacred if they flee or if the city falls, Raed Saleh told AFP. (Photo by YURI GRIPAS / AFP) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY- "Desperate people of Aleppo fear massacre: rescue chief" (Photo by YURI GRIPAS/AFP via Getty Images)