Later the United Nations said all it could confirm was that the convoy was attacked.
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The U.N., which initially said the convoy was hit by an airstrike, on Tuesday backtracked from this statement. The United Nations responded by suspending its aid operations in Syria.
Heavy air raids have continued in Syria, especially in and around Aleppo. Mohammed Abu Jaafar, from the local forensics team, said one of the 24 was a fighter. A mistaken attack by coalition airpower that killed dozens of Syrian troops, as well as fresh airstrikes in Aleppo and Idlib, have.
In New York on Tuesday, Russian and USA diplomats insisted that the cease-fire, which went into effect nine days ago, was not dead, despite soaring violence.
On Tuesday, the Russian Defense Ministry reiterated that neither it nor the Syrian military had launched airstrikes on the convoy.
Russia’s military did not directly accuse the US-led coalition of carrying out a drone attack on the column but pointedly said that the aircraft is capable of “carrying out high-accuracy strikes”.
Moscow denied that Russian or Syrian aircraft were behind the attack, saying there was a fire in the cargo.
US Secretary of State John Kerry has called for aircraft to be grounded in parts of Syria so a ceasefire deal can be extended.
A U.S. -Russian cease-fire that went into effect nine days ago has all but collapsed.
She said many of her colleagues are anxious this will not be the last time aid workers are targeted: “Until we reach a diplomatic or political solution to the conflict in Syria that gives us a lasting peace I really feel like these things are going to continue to occur”. He didn’t specify when the carrier will be deployed, but Russian media have earlier reported that the mission was planned for the fall. Focused on protecting key aid routes in northern Syria, it was unclear if Russian Federation and Syria would agree.
A further attack on Tuesday night killed five medical workers for an global aid agency.
The UN Security Council met for tense crisis talks to try to revive the truce and chart a course toward ending the 5-year war in Syria that has killed 300,000 people.
In the pact, the details of which remain secret, Washington and Moscow, which back opposing sides in the war between President Bashar al-Assad’s government and insurgents, agreed to jointly target jihadists that are their common enemy.
Nine patients at the facility were killed, Alzoubi said, adding he did not know whether they were civilians or fighters. Much of the worldwide community hailed that outcome, only to watch it unravel amid an upsurge in violence that included an accidental US strike that killed more than 60 Syrian soldiers. The U.N. called it a deliberate attack.
Speaking to the U.N.’s Security Council, Kerry berated Russian Federation for the convoy strike, which witnesses and some experts believe was carried out by Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime and advocated, by proxy, in Moscow.
A medical relief organization says an airstrike in northern Syria hit a mobile emergency unit, and not a medical facility.
As the medics deployed, planes circled around and struck the area again, Dr. Oubaida Al Moufti, vice president of the International Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations, said.
The group later said two nurses and two ambulance drivers were killed, while a third nurse remains in critical condition. The agency said the plane crashed in an area controlled by either the government or rebel factions.
On Sunday, ISIS shot down another Syrian jet in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor.
He said that previous breaks in bombing by the government side had only allowed the rebels to re-arm and strengthen their positions and urged United Nations members to revisit the list of banned terrorist groups excluded from the ceasefire.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the fate of the pilot remains unclear.
It was not clear whether the strike was carried out by Russian or Syrian warplanes. But “the regime’s attempts to advance failed”, said the rebel, speaking to Reuters from the Aleppo area via the internet.
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The key areas are places where humanitarian aid needs to be delivered and where Syrian government forces have been accused of targeting civilians.
