ALEPPO, Syria, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a 10-hour humanitarian pause in hostilities to be held on Friday to allow rebels to leave the embattled Syrian city of Aleppo through two corridors.
"This decision has been coordinated with the Syrian leadership ... "to avoid senseless victims," Gen. Valery Gerasimov, Russia's chief of the general staff, said Wednesday.