On Sunday, Islamic State said in an online statement it had shot down a warplane in Deir al-Zor with “anti-aircraft” guns, in the same area as the US -led coalition strikes hit the Syrian military on Saturday.
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A Russian Defence Ministry official stated that Syria informed them that 62 of its soldiers were killed in the airstrike.
“Russia really needs to stop the cheap point scoring and the grandstanding and the stunts and focus on what matters, which is implementation of something we negotiated in good faith with them”, Power said.
The Syrian ceasefire was in danger of collapse last night after the United States admitted “unintentionally” killing about 80 government troops in air strikes.
“If what Ambassador Power has done today is any indication of their possible reaction then we are in serious trouble”, Mr Churkin said.
America apologised for the bombing which occurred on a base near the eastern Deir al Zor airport, insisting their intended target was Islamic State fighters.
“The White House is defending Islamic State”.
Power said Zakharova should be embarrassed by that claim.
The incident, which Russian Federation said killed 62 Syrian soldiers, sparked an angry exchange between diplomats at the United Nations.
The Syrian Foreign Ministry called the coalition airstrikes a “dangerous and blatant aggression against the Syrian Arab Republic and its army”.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the Syrian conflict, said the pilot of the warplane was killed.
The US has expressed regret for the strikes, while Australia, which says its planes were among a number of global aircraft involved in the operation, expressed condolences to the victims’ families. Government areas have been relying on aid that was being dropped from aircraft. Otherwise the implementation of the entire package of the U.S.
All the warring parties are also sworn enemies of Islamic State, whose territory extends along the Euphrates valley from the Iraqi border, including around Deir al-Zor, up to land near Syria’s frontier with Turkey.
The five-year-old civil war has killed hundreds of thousands and displaced half the country’s population, drawing in global and regional powers, causing an worldwide refugee crisis and inspiring jihadist attacks around the world. Earlier today the Russians had to call off USA -led airstrikes inside Syria that struck a convoy of Russian-backed Syrian troops.
Washington’s mistaken air strikes on Syrian government forces raise several questions; not least why American aircraft were hitting what they thought were IS positions in an area where IS was engaged with Syrian forces.
Syrian state TV reported Sunday that dozens of residents had left rebel-held areas in Aleppo and were taken to shelters in the government-controlled part of the city.
Syrian state media said insurgents shelled residential areas in the northern city of Aleppo and the central province of Homs.
The Obama administration expressed its “regret” on Saturday for an airstrike that mistakenly killed Syrian forces, a senior administration official told Fox News, as the United States awaited a response from the Assad regime. The fact that there have been at least 55 violations of the Cease-fire -not counting the U.S. airstrike – and that the United Nation’s convoys still haven’t been able to get the regime’s permission to distribute humanitarian aid has made the different parts that take part In the agreement launch accusations that threaten to break the truce.
The front line remained quiet in divided second city Aleppo, but civilians have yet to see any aid deliveries – a key component of the truce deal.
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“Obviously the humanitarian community is very frustrated by this”.
