Syria meanwhile called Saturday’s US -led airstrikes on the outskirts of the eastern city of Deir el-Zour a “dangerous and blatant aggression against the Syrian Arab Republic and its army”.
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The Syrian army said the raid had allowed Islamic State (IS) group fighters to gain ground around a key eastern airbase, but a military source said government forces were back on the offensive on Sunday.
America apologised for bombing a base near Deir al Zor airport, insisting the intended target was Islamic State fighters. “There is no hope of aid being delivered now”.
Although violence has diminished, the United Nations has accused the Syrian Government of failing to grant permission for safe passage of aid convoys.
The Syrian government, assisted by Russian Federation, has tortured and bombed its people, Power said.
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.
The Local Coordination Committees, another monitoring group, says Sunday’s air raids targeted three neighborhoods in eastern Aleppo.
Although Kerry professed hope, USA officials said Monday conditions were still not right to set up the Joint Implementation Center.
A senior Syrian opposition figure says the U.S. -Russia-brokered cease-fire that went into effect in Syria a week ago is now “clinically dead”.
It again called on Washington to force rebels to sign on to the truce, warning that “otherwise, the realisation of Russia-US agreements. could be put in danger”.
Kerry also said it was important to set up the Joint Implementation Center in order to prevent the “terrible thing that happened yesterday, that we all acknowledge and regret but it happens when you have conflict”. The US-led coalition is made up of 67 countries, more than a dozen of which carry out airstrikes against the militants.
One Turkish soldier and six Syrian rebels were wounded on Sunday in clashes with Islamic State near the Syrian border town of al-Rai as Turkey-backed Syrian rebels pushed south toward the IS-held town of al-Bab, Turkey’s Dogan News agency reported.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry is sharply criticizing the United States as being obstructive and deceptive regarding the airstrike by coalition warplanes on a Syrian military position that killed more than 60 soldiers.
The ministry’s statement, sent to the presidents of the United Nations and the U.N. Security Council, said American warplanes repeatedly attacked Syrian army positions on Saturday afternoon.
He appeared to be referring to a US -led coalition airstrike on Saturday that Syria says killed dozens of its soldiers.
Australia and Denmark have also said that their planes were involved in the strike.
Defense Minister Marise Payne told Australian Broadcasting Corp. on Monday that Australia is taking part in a USA review of the airstrikes against what was believed to be an Islamic State fighting position.
The seven-day truce formally ended at midnight on Sunday.
“We are reaching a really terrifying conclusion for the whole world: That the White House is defending Islamic State”.
Kerry said it was important to set up a joint coordination center with Russian Federation – which is part of the cease-fire deal – to avoid the “terrible thing that happened yesterday, that we all acknowledge and regret but it happens when you have conflict”.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a network of activists inside Syria, said the USA -led coalition struck army positions in Tharda mountain and a nearby artillery division, killing 90 troops and wounding 110.
Also on Sunday, some four million students headed to 15,000 schools for the start of a new school year, state media said. But he said some aid was finally moving.
Iran has strongly condemned a USA air raid that struck Syrian troops at an eastern base surrounded by the Islamic State group.
“The amount of shelling by rebel groups against positions of the Syrian Government troops and of residential areas is increasing”, Defence Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said. Australian, British and Danish warplanes were involved in that attack on Syrian army positions.
Airstrikes were also reported in Aleppo, Syria’s largest city and former commercial hub. It said that intense airstrikes by Russian warplanes have killed at least 38 ISIS fighters since Saturday.
Russia’s military has said that it was told by the Syrian army that at least 62 Syrian soldiers were killed in the Deir el-Zour air raid and more than 100 wounded.
Tens of thousands of people live in government-held neighborhoods of Deir el-Zour under an IS siege. Government areas have been relying on airlifted aid.
The Russian military is warning that for Syrian government forces, observing the U.S. -Russia-brokered cease-fire has become “meaningless” in view of continuous rebel violations of the truce.
The truce excludes IS and al-Qaida-linked militants.
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Asked whether he expected aid to reach rebel-held areas of eastern Aleppo, he said: “There is no hope”.
