It came into effect at sunset on Monday (12 September) and has been working to ease fighting.
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“We demand a full and detailed explanation from Washington”.
US Secretary of State John Kerry called his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Saturday and urged him to press the rebels for safe passage guarantees, the Russian foreign ministry said.
“Still no progress, but the UN is ready to move once we get the go ahead”, said David Swanson, a spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
“The truce, as we have. told the (US) State Department, will not hold out”, the rebel official said, pointing to the continued presence of a United Nations aid convoy at the Turkish border awaiting permission to travel to Aleppo.
An agreement was reached between Russian Federation, which backs Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, and the U.S., which supports some rebel groups.
The Syrian government also accused rebels of firing on routes into the northern city of Aleppo but five days in, the ceasefire appeared to be largely holding.
The United States and Russian Federation agreed a deal on Syria last week, involving a ceasefire which came into effect on Monday, aid deliveries to besieged areas and eventual joint targeting of militant jihadist groups if the truce works out.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitoring group with contacts across the country, cited a military source at Deir al-Zor airport as saying that at least 80 Syrian soldiers had been killed in the strike. No aid has entered since the cease-fire agreement was reached.
Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Syrian rebels Saturday of using a fragile cease-fire to regroup, as diplomatic tensions between Moscow and Washington simmered over a lack of humanitarian aid access.
Separately footage has emerged of Free Syrian Army rebels expelling USA special forces from the town of Al-Rai in northern Syria, calling them “infidels” in Arabic.
Iron Dome protects against short-range rockets, and intercepted hundreds of projectiles fired by Palestinians militants during the 2014 Gaza war.
The ministry said the strikes had been carried out between 1700 and 1750 local time.
Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, however, known for her hawkish views on foreign policy and adverse position towards Russia – with Russian President Vladimir Putin accusing the candidate of “playing the Russian card” in an effort to recreate the imagery that Russia is an “evil empire” – continues to call for an aggressive posture of regime change in Syria as the key to resolving the crisis.
The apparently errant strike could deal a crushing blow to a fragile US and Russian-brokered cease-fire that has largely held for five days despite dozens of alleged violations on both sides. It was halted immediately after the coalition was notified by the Russians, the official said.
“I don’t really understand why we have to keep such an agreement closed”, Putin was quoted as saying Saturday during a trip to Kyrgyzstan.
“This comes from the problems the U.S.is facing on the Syrian track – they still can not separate the so-called healthy part of the opposition from the half-criminal and terrorist elements”, he said.
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“In my opinion, this comes from the desire to keep the combat potential in fighting the legitimate government of Bashar Assad”.
