According to Ryzhkov, Russian inspectors, together with Turkish specialists, were scheduled to perform an observation flight over the Turkish territory within the framework of the Open Skies Treaty from February 1-5.
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What is happening on the Turkish-Syrian border attests to Turkey’s intensive preparations for a military invasion of Syria, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov has said.
A Syrian man comforts a boy amid the rubble of buildings following a reported airstrike on the rebel-held neighborhood in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Thursday. The reports blamed rebels for the mortar rounds.
The Britain-based monitor said the strikes on six neighbourhoods of the city had also injured many and the toll could rise. “We need to wait”. The charity runs about 10 camps for displaced Syrians along the frontier. United Nations efforts to deliver relief on the ground to besieged areas have been slowed to a trickle.
The Russian military says it has beefed up its air group in Syria with state-of-the art fighter jets.
The United States blames both Syria’s government and Russian Federation for stalling the peace negotiations.
Any intervention, Erdemir said, “could further escalate the Turkish-Russian crisis, prompting heavier sanctions, and even new episodes of clashes between the two armies”.
Aleppo city, Syria’s former economic powerhouse, has been divided between opposition control in the east and regime control in the west since mid-2012.
Idlib has been controlled by opposition forces since 2015, while Aleppo is split between government and rebel-controlled areas.
Another $290 million will support education in Jordan and Lebanon, including for nearly 300,000 Syrian refugees.
He said that “the coming days should be used to get back to the table, not to secure more gains on the battlefield”.
“Simply they are diverting attention from their attacks on civilians as a country already invading Syria”, the source told CNN.
Mohammad Javad Zarif, foreign minister of Iran, called in London for the talks to resume and for an immediate ceasefire.
Kerry said he spoke Thursday morning with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov by telephone about how to implement a ceasefire.
The losses have angered and demoralised Syria’s opposition, activists said.
The talks convened this week in Geneva were the first diplomatic attempt to end the war in two years but collapsed before they began in earnest.
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Ryzhkov said earlier that the agreed flight route would cover observation areas adjacent to the Syrian-Turkish border, as well as airfields where North Atlantic Treaty Organisation warplanes were deployed. The offensive led to the liberation of the Shiite towns of Nubol and Zahraa, “which had been under siege for four years, it said”. On Thursday, residents embraced and cheered pro-government fighters entering the towns.
