As the systematic bombing of Syria’s largest city continues to wreak destruction and claim lives, a leading Christian clergyman in Aleppo has called on the fighting to end. <br /><br /> Latest video on social media, although unverifiable, shows a huge explosion in the city that a website says was the result of bombing by the regime. <br /><br /> Monsignor Georges Abou Khazen said at least 12 Christians have died recently and that more bodies are under the rubble.<br /><br /> Speaking to AsiaNews said that Christians and Muslims are “tired of war, tired of these terrible acts of violence”.<br /><br /> Mgr Khazen also claimed that the war is being fueled by regional and international powers who, he said, are sending heavier and more lethal weapons. <br /><br /> Aleppo is in the frontline of the conflict, strategically important because of its proximity to Turkey. <br /><br /> On the wider front pictures released by the US government on Monday shows coalition airstrikes on areas it says are controlled by Islamic State militants throughout Syria an
