The closed-door consultations were scrapped after Moscow and Washington failed to agree over disclosing details of the ceasefire to the council.
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The statement calls it a “serious and blatant attack on Syria and its military” and “firm proof of the USA support of Daesh and other terrorist groups”.
A Syrian military spokesman told a briefing early Sunday that the USA airstrike destroyed three tanks, three infantry fighting vehicles, four mortars and an anti-aircraft gun, Russia’s TASS news agency reported.
“The truce, as we have warned, and we the told the (US) State Department – will not hold out”, the rebel leader told the Reuters news agency on condition of anonymity.
The leader of an al-Qaida-linked insurgent group in Syria has condemned a USA and Russian-brokered cease-fire, saying it places Washington on the side of President Bashar Assad and against the Syrian people. The statement claimed five USA aircraft took part in the airstrike. The United States already said it would not recognize the outcome of voting in Russian-occupied Crimea.
The official says the notification was sent through Russian Federation.
Russian Federation is a key ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government and has been carrying out airstrikes on behalf of his forces since past year.
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“Russia is exerting all possible effort to restrain government troops from returning fire”, senior army general Viktor Poznikhir said during the televised briefing. He did not identify the planes’ country affiliation, but said they were part of the global coalition. He says the planes came from the direction of the border with Iraq. “We see terrorist forces trying to regroup”.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said Saturday intermittent shelling and clashes resumed overnight on several fronts in Syria.
The U.S.is not known to have directly struck Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces at any point during the five-year civil war.
Truce went into effect on Monday but both sides have alleged dozens of violations.
Under the deal, the main route into Aleppo, the Castello Road, would be demilitarised and aid convoys would enter from Turkey.
In addition, a change to the electoral system that means half of the deputies will now be chosen on a constituency basis looks likely to help boost United Russia as it funneled state resources into the campaign.
Vladimir Putin says the prominence of Russian Federation and himself as an issue in the US presidential campaign indicates the country’s growing importance Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s comments about Putin’s power and support have brought rebuke from critics who suggest he would take a soft line in dealing with the Kremlin.
Putin said Washington apparently “has the desire to keep the capabilities to fight the lawful government of President Assad”, calling it a “very risky path”.
But he said that the U.S. seemed to be trying to keep the rebels’ military capability in its conflict with the government, adding that this was a “dangerous path”.
Later, Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov and U.S. secretary of state John Kerry spoke by phone about the fragile ceasefire and efforts to deliver aid to Aleppo.
But Washington has warned Russian Federation that unless aid is delivered to Aleppo, it will not move ahead with the formation of the joint coordination center.
More than 94,000 polling stations, including those in closed territories – military garrisons, prisons and hospitals, are open in Russian Federation on the polling day, and 371 polling stations are open outside Russian Federation in 145 countries, said the report.
However, the United Nations says it has not yet received permits from the Syrian government to allow the trucks into opposition areas, where at least 250,000 people are in desperate need of food and medicine.
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Almost five million Syrians have fled the country and some 6.5 million have been internally displaced during the more than five-year conflict, contributing to the record 65.3 million people who were uprooted worldwide last year.
