This image provided by the Syrian anti-government group Aleppo 24 news, shows damaged trucks carrying aid, in Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016. -Russian brokered cease-fire had failed, and United Nations officials reported many dead and seriously wounded.
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An impassioned Kerry faced off with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the U.N. Security Council in NY, during a tense televised showdown, saying the bombing of an aid convoy in Syria raised “profound doubt whether Russia and the Assad regime can or will live up to” ceasefire obligations.
Officials are now saying the US has gathering enough intelligence to say that it was Russian Federation, not Syria, that launched the airstrike.
The truce came into effect on 12 September in order to create a safe corridor for aid into war-torn Aleppo, where numerous inhabitants are said to be in dire need.
“Of course we didn’t agree on that”, Gabriel said.
The UN is set to deliver medical supplies to the rebel-held suburb of Moadamiya in the capital and hopes to travel to Aleppo and other parts of Syria in the near future.
“Twenty aid workers were killed in an outrageous, sustained, two-hour attack directed at a fully authorized humanitarian mission near Aleppo – fully authorized”.
BEIRUT (AP) – An airstrike on a medical facility in northern Syria has killed at least five staff members, the medical relief organization that runs the facility said Wednesday. Syrian state TV said government forces had killed a number of insurgents and destroyed their vehicles. UOSSM said the nurse later died of her injuries. Between 12 and 20 people were killed.
Gabriel said he told Putin that Germany thought the Syrian army was involved in the attack.
An AFP correspondent in the eastern Bustan al-Qasr neighbourhood reported that his entire street was in flames following the pre-dawn strikes.
Washington insisted its intended target was Islamic State militants and it has apologised to the Syrian regime, while the British Ministry of Defence said its forces would never “intentionally” strike Syria’s military.
During his farewell address to the General Assembly, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, denounced the attack as “sickening, savage and apparently deliberate”.
The attack came a day after an aid convoy was targeted in a deadly attack nearby.
Kerry outlined a litany of US complaints against Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government and its chief backer, Russia.
United States officials told the BBC on Tuesday that their information clearly indicated that it was an air strike, and that two Russian Su-24 ground attack aircraft were in the sky above the convoy at the precise moment it came under fire.
USA officials said Tuesday that two Russian Su-24 aircraft were flying over the area at the moment of the attack.
A U.S. -Russian cease-fire that went into effect nine days ago has all but collapsed.
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US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov talked first by telephone “at the initiative of the Americans”, the ministry said in a message on Facebook.
