Image copyright Reuters Western forces are using satellites and unmanned aircraft to gather evidence of possible war crimes in Syria, the UK government has confirmed.
Thousands of civilians remain trapped in Aleppo as fighting continues.
The Foreign Office said no UK government drones were operating over Aleppo, but the Syrian opposition had been trained to collect evidence.
Foreign Office minister Tobias Ellwood said those committing crimes against humanity may “be held to account”
Former chancellor George Osborne told MPs in an emergency Commons debate on Tuesday that the situation in Aleppo was due to “a vacuum of Western and British leadership”.
Also on Tuesday, the UN said civilians were being killed deliberately by militias supporting President Bashar al-Assad"s government.
The government has said that as well as using aerial surveillance, evidence of alleged atrocities is being collected from open source social media and local testimony from activists on the ground.
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