Image copyright Reuters Western forces are using satellites and unmanned aircraft to gather evidence of possible war crimes in Syria, the BBC has learned.
Government sources said the aerial photographs would be used to identify potential breaches of international humanitarian law.
Thousands of civilians remain trapped in Aleppo as fighting continues.
A government source said justice would “catch up” with those carrying out war crimes.
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 the Syrian government.
UK government sources said that as well as using aerial surveillance, Britain and the US were gathering evidence of alleged atrocities from open source social media and local testimony from activists on the ground.
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