Fighting for the city has intensified after regime troops seized control of the last supply route into rebel-held areas in mid-July.
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A US official said, however, that discussions with the Russians are still ongoing and no agreement is close.
Russian warplanes took off on Tuesday from a base in Iran to target Islamic State fighters and other militants in Syria, Russia’s Defense Ministry said, widening Moscow’s bombing campaign in a major development in the country’s civil war.
“No one and nowhere is safe”.
The Islamic State (IS) jihadist group on Monday claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed more than 30 Syrian rebel fighters in a blast near the Turkish border.
The situation was also bad in government controlled areas in the west, where between 1.2 million and 1.5 million people live, as well as in the surrounding suburbs and neighboring countryside which have continued to suffer from attacks, Haq said. It is thought to be the first time that Russian Federation has struck targets inside Syria from Iran since it launched a bombing campaign to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in September 2015.
The raids mark the first time that Russian Federation has publicly stated that it has used a base in a Middle East country other than Syria since the Kremlin launched its bombing campaign in support of long-time ally Bashar al-Assad last September. Russian media said the Tupolev-22M3 bombers, which had already conducted many strikes on militants in Syria from their home bases in southern Russia, were too large to be accommodated at Russia’s air base inside Syria.
Asked about Shoigu’s remarks, the USA state department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau said in Washington: “We have seen the reports and have nothing to announce”.
Trudeau said the United States continued to push for a broader cessation of Syria hostilities accord with Russian Federation. Children have been traumatized. “The scale of the suffering is enormous”, Maurer said in a statement.
United Nations officials and outside aid groups have warned of an unprecedented humanitarian calamity in Aleppo if the siege is not ended, calling for at least 48-hour weekly humanitarian pauses so food and water can be delivered.
Shoigu said Russian Federation had delivered aid to Aleppo and is helping to rebuild damaged water pumping stations.
Armed men abducted multiple people from an upscale restaurant in the popular Mexican beach resort city of Puerto Vallarta, authorities said Monday.
Earlier on Monday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Syrian militants had used a temporary ceasefire around Aleppo to regroup.
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‘(They should) sit down at the table and negotiate, ‘ Bogdanov told the RIA news agency, saying he would meet representatives of the Syrian opposition in the Qatari capital, Doha, on August 16. He said it did not know which “opposition” Bogdanov was referring to.
