On Wednesday, US Secretary of State John Kerry called for all aircraft over key humanitarian routes in the war-torn country to be grounded so aid could flow to Syrian civilians.
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An air strike in northern Syria killed five medics responding to an earlier bombing raid, a relief group said, a day after an air strike on a humanitarian convoy prompted the United Nations to suspend desperately needed aid deliveries.
“It is clearly seen in the video that a terrorists’ pickup truck with a towed large-caliber mortar is moving along with the convoy”, he said.
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The United States has reached the preliminary conclusion that Russian warplanes bombed the aid convoy, USA officials have told CNN, and say that Russia is responsible, whether it was Russian planes – or the Syrian regime’s – that struck.
After halting aid operations in response to the convoy attack, the United Nations said it was ready to resume humanitarian deliveries.
The US-led coalition also admitted this week that its airstrikes over the weekend had killed 62 Syrian regime troops in eastern Syria.
The U.N. Security Council was due to hold a high-level meeting on Syria later on Wednesday.
Mr Johnson has met his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov for the first time to discuss the attack, which left 20 civilians dead and which the USA has said it holds Russia responsible for.
Passage of the aid convoy, which USA officials said was struck by Russian jets, was supposed to have been secured by a ceasefire that was agreed by the various factions fighting around Aleppo.
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”.
“In Geneva, Russia related that Assad was prepared to live by the cessation of hostilities and would accept the idea of not flying over agreed upon areas”, Kerry said.
Moscow backs Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government, while Washington supports numerous rebel factions fighting to topple him.
Laerke acknowledged that a full assessment had not been completed, but said the planned deliveries would take place now on a case-by-case basis.
Russian Federation denies responsibility – giving explanations including blaming a mortar attack by militants, and fires inside the trucks. The aircraft, he added, was launched from Incirlik Air Base in southeastern Turkey.
The Russian and Syrian governments called off a week-old cease-fire on Monday, citing violations by opposition forces.
Speaking earlier about Monday’s attack on the aid convoy, USA officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said two Russian SU-24 attack aircraft were in the sky above the convoy at the precise moment it was hit in Urum al-Kubra.
An air strike hit relief trucks near the city of Aleppo on Monday, shattering a ceasefire.
(CNN) – Russia has announced it is sending its only aircraft carrier to waters off Syria’s coast, as diplomats met at the United Nations in an effort to revive Syria’s failing ceasefire. The two consecutive air strikes were “not a coincidence”, said UOSSM’s Dr. Zaydoun al-Zoubi.
The consequences of this war only get worse and worse, said.
At least 12 civilians, including two children, were killed, the highest single-day toll since the truce collapsed this week, the group said.
State TV, quoting an unnamed military official, says the pilot has been rescued but doesn’t say what caused the plane to crash in the Qalamoun mountains, an area that straddles the border with Lebanon.
He said: “I think it’s too early to say anything about criminality and that kind of thing, or indeed to make conclusive judgments about responsibility”.
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The Syrian Observatory said either Syrian or Russian warplanes were responsible.
