Under the terms of an agreement, the U.S. military would set up a joint cell with Russian forces to target Syrian jihadists if the ceasefire held.
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Rudskoi accused Washington of failing to fulfill its obligations under the truce deal – most importantly to separate the USA -backed opposition units from al-Qaida’s branch in Syria.
But since the beginning of the ceasefire, both sides, the Syrian military, and the rebels, have denounced violations of the agreement, including blocking aid trucks to certain areas and open fire in other regions.
“The convoy was the outcome of a long process of permission and preparations to assist isolated civilians”, he said in a statement.
A deadly air strike on a United Nations aid convoy by Syrian or Russian planes calls into question global efforts to salvage a ceasefire, senior USA officials said.
The Syrian military said the coalition aircraft had hit a base which was surrounded by IS – enabling the militants to overrun their positions.
David Swanson, a spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), earlier said a convoy on trucks was crossing into Orum al-Kubra with “wheat flour, health supplies and other emergency supplies” for 78,000 people in the area.
“Let me be clear: if this callous attack is found to be a deliberate targeting of humanitarians, it would amount to a war crime”, O’Brien said. The official had earlier told The Associated Press there will be no United Nations staff with a planned convoy to the area.
“It is outrageous that it was hit while offloading at warehouses”, Egeland said.
John Kerry said its vital that aid workers get the protection they need.
Twelve aid workers and truck drivers have been killed in an airstrike on an aid convoy in Syria’s Aleppo province, according to a Syria monitoring group. It said the militants are attacking Syrian army positions near a military academy and living quarters on southwestern outskirts of Aleppo, adding that the Syrian troops are fighting to repel the attack.
The week-old cease-fire had brought a brief respite to at least some parts the war-torn country.
A US air strike hit Syrian troops instead of a terrorist target.
Those seven days of calm and aid deliveries were required before the US and Russian Federation could embark on a plan to cooperate in targeting the Islamic State group and al-Qaida affiliates working in Syria. He was speaking in NY, where world leaders are gathering for the annual UN General Assembly. He said the USA was willing to extend the cease-fire despite the statement from Assad’s government.
USA secretary of State John Kerry announced the ceasefire early on September 10 following long negotiations with Russian Federation, which supports the Assad regime. A hard thing to arrange since there have been significant violations from both sides.
Aid deliveries to the besieged eastern districts of Aleppo have not reached their destination.
The U.N. estimates that up to 275,000 people are trapped without adequate food, water, shelter or medical care in rebel-controlled eastern Aleppo, which has been under siege since July.
His adviser Buthaina Shaaban went further, telling AFP that Damascus believed the raid which killed at least 62 Syrian soldiers had been intentional.
Reports out of Syria have now put the death toll at 32, with the finger being pointed at the Syrian government or Russian military.
If the truce had lasted a week, the U.S. and Russian militaries were to set up a joint targeting cell to hunt jihadist groups not party to the cessation of hostilities.
George Sabra, of the opposition High Negotiations Committee, told The Associated Press on Monday that the truce has been repeatedly violated and did not succeed in its main objective or opening roads for aid. One of the key elements of the plan is delivering humanitarian aid to the people across the country.
The Syrian military blames the rebel groups of the truce failure. The Assad government describes almost all armed groups opposing its rule as “terrorists”. Russia, on the other hand, accuses the USA of protecting terrorist groups that are mingled in with moderate opposition, such as Al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra.
A major rebel groups in Syria, Nour el-Din el-Zinki, said soon after the Syrian military declaration that the government, Russian Federation and Iran, another major ally of President Bashar Assad, are responsible for the truce’s failure.
MOD says it can “confirm that the United Kingdom participated in the recent coalition airstrike in Syria, south of Deir el-Zour on Saturday, and we are fully cooperating with the coalition investigation”.
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The opposition reported 254 violations by government forces and their allies since the truce started on September 12 and a senior Syrian opposition official declared the ceasefire “clinically dead”. After that, their goal was for Moscow and Washington to begin an unprecedented joint effort to coordinate air strikes on Islamic extremist groups in Syria while grounding Assad’s air force in those areas.
