The organisation reported that 370 people, including 127 civilians – including 36 children and 34 women – have died in the past three weeks from Russian bombing.
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Rebels there said last week they had plentiful supplies of the missiles.
“If they follow these protocols, we should not have the risk of engagement with Russian air crews over Syria”.
Sahin of IHH, which established 19 internally displaced persons camps inside Syria, said around 80,000 people had fled Hama city because of air strikes, and were living in the open air in the countryside.
The two sides also agreed to establish a “communication line on the ground” as a backup of military-to-military communication, Cook said, although he would not say whether this would be a telephone line or where it would be located.
Syria’s skies have become dangerously crowded of late as the U.S., Russian Federation and the Assad regime all bomb various factions in the country’s four-year-old civil war.
The US signed a memorandum of understanding with Russian Federation on Tuesday to avoid conflicts in the air over Syria, though it’s unclear what the consequences will be if Russian Federation violates the agreement.
The Kremlin has said there are no Russian troops in combat roles in Syria, though it has said there are trainers and advisers working alongside the Syrian military and also forces guarding Russia’s bases in western Syria.
However, the Defense Ministry noted that the agreement did not signal broader agreement with the US airstrikes in Syria which Russian Federation says are illegal. Russian Federation has said its air campaign is aimed at helping the government defeat the IS group and other “terrorists”, but numerous strikes have targeted Syrian rebels in areas where the extremist group is not present.
Antonov added that the memorandum “shows a big potential for cooperation between Russian Federation and the USA, including in the fight against terrorism, which we are ready to expand and deepen”.
Speaking to senior law enforcement commanders Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin reiterated that Russia had deployed its military in Syria to prevent the threat from the Islamic State from spreading beyond the Middle East.
There are strong indications that a new wave of migration has started following an increase in fighting on the Syrian region of Aleppo, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday.
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Russia says it is targeting the Islamic State group and other terrorists in Syria, but most of the Russian airstrikes have focused on areas where the IS militants do not have an active presence.
