Ne scrivono Patrick Henningsen e Vanessa Beeley: «At Least 14 US Coalition Military Officers Captured by Syrian Forces in East Aleppo Bunker». Secondo le due reporter, ma da altra fonte, «The Security Council is sitting in private on Friday, December 16, 2016, at 17:00 GMT, while NATO officers were arrested this morning by the Syrian Special Forces in a bunker in East Aleppo».