“As soon as there is real headway in fighting terrorists, made by the Syrian government and army with our support, the Americans started… demanding that we stop fighting terrorists”, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told RIA-Novosti agency.
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Although the U.S isn’t ready to officially pronounce the incident a chemical attack, however, there is confidence that it was indeed a chemical attack, a top US official said to CNN on Tuesday evening.
Government fighters have taken control of two hilltops and two small villages in the southwest suburbs, said monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. There, however, there were allegations that five were killed and eight suffered breathing difficulties in that attack.
Russian Federation and Syria say they have opened humanitarian corridors into eastern Aleppo to allow for the distribution of aid and to give residents – along with rebels who choose to surrender – a chance to leave.
Rebels and their jihadists allies launched an assault Sunday in a bid to ease a more than two-week government siege of opposition-held districts of the city.
It said that the strikes were mounted by unidentified aircraft overnight on the besieged opposition-held Eastern Aleppo.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights put the toll from the rocket attack at six dead, saying the casualties were in fact soldiers.
PHR has reported 373 attacks on 265 medical facilities since the beginning of Syria’s war, which began in 2011.
A man walks past a damaged ambulance after an air strike hit Anadan Hospital yesterday, sponsored by the Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations (UOSSM), in the rebel held city of Anadan, northern Aleppo province, Syria July 31, 2016.
“Each of these assaults constitutes a war crime”, Brown said.
Syrian jets also struck rebel-held Sukari, Seif al Dawlah and Salah al Deen neighborhoods in stepped-up raids on residential areas, rebels said.
“This has resulted in an electricity blackout throughout the city and has left residents throughout Aleppo with no access to water through the public water network, although some water is still available through wells and tanks”, it says.
A video shared online appeared to show what activists claimed was a destroyed aid convoy near Aleppo.
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According to local reports, the children have been burning tyres not only to deter air strikes but also to send out a message to inform “the world and the United Nations” of their plight.
