PARIS — France is working to find a way for the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to launch an investigation into war crimes it says have been committed by Syrian and Russian forces in eastern Aleppo, according to Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault.Since the collapse of efforts to reach a ceasefire in September, Russian and Syrian warplanes have launched their biggest offensive on Aleppo’s besieged rebel-held sectors."These bombings — and I said it in Moscow — are war crimes," Ayrault told France Inter radio on Monday after a French-drafted UN Security Council resolution on Syria was vetoed at the weekend by Russia. "It includes all those who are complicit for what’s happening in Aleppo, including Russian leaders."We shall contact the International Criminal Court prosecutor to see how she can launch these investigations."US Secretary of State John Kerry also called for a war crimes investigation last week.It is unclear how the ICC could proceed, given that the cou...
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