The latest incident came as Washington blamed Moscow for an attack on an aid convoy near Aleppo on Monday that killed at least 20 people.
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Sources said insurgents were mobilising to the south and west of Aleppo in a bid to stop huge regime advance.
In a tough speech at the United Nations Security Council, the top USA diplomat also demanded that Russian Federation and Syria recognize their responsibility for the aerial bombardment of a humanitarian convoy on Monday, an attack that killed 20 civilians.
The incident fuelled tensions between the two architects of Syria’s cease-fire, Russian Federation and the United States.
Russian Federation and the United States co-sponsored the ceasefire plan, with Kerry warning it could be the “last chance” to try to end Syria’s civil war, which has killed more than 300,000 people in five years.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said nine militants, some of them belonging to the Fatah al-Sham Front, an al-Qaida-linked group previously known as the Nusra Front, were also killed in the “double tap” attack.
The U.S. office of UOSSM said two nurses and two ambulance drivers were killed and one nurse remained in a critical condition following the attack on the medical facility in Khan Touman.
Aggression between the United States and Russian Federation intensifies over who was to blame for the bombing of a UN aid convoy in Syria. Russia’s foreign ministry told reporters at the United Nations the US administration “has no facts” to support its assertions.
U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry didn’t pull his punches against the Russian government at the United Nations on Wednesday – blasting Moscow for this week’s attack on a convoy carrying relief supplies into war-battered Syria. SARC has continued deliveries to other areas of Syria, officials say.
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has met his Russian counterpart for the first time to discuss the “unacceptable” attack on an aid convoy in Syria.
Late on Wednesday afternoon, the United States denied Russia’s claim that a coalition drone was near the Syrian aid convoy that was hit on Monday.
Syrian state media reported that the city’s government-held west had come under rebel shelling, which killed two people.
The United Nations announced Wednesday its aid convoy is ready to move forward with deliveries inside Syria after it was suspended following a deadly attack two days ago.
The attack drew global condemnation and prompted the U.N.to suspend aid shipments in Syria, where some 6 million people live in besieged or hard-to-reach places. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon used his farewell speech to the General Assembly in NY to denounce the “cowards” behind it.
It was not immediately clear who carried out the strike. The pilot was rescued, according to an unnamed military official quoted on state TV.
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Both Syrian and Russian aircraft operate over the province, while the US-led coalition targets the Islamic State group in other parts of the country.
