The airstrike, said to have occurred Tuesday, follows Monday’s airstrike that targeted aid trucks from the United Nations and killed 20 people.
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United Nations aid convoys starting rolling in Syria again on Thursday after an attack on humanitarian trucks and a warehouse triggered a suspension in deliveries.
The US said that the attack was immediately halted after being informed by Russian Federation that it was possible the strikes were targeting Syrian regime positions.
Syrian President Bashar Assad told the AP in an interview in Damascus that the United States was to blame for the deal’s failure.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov demanded an investigation into the attack, which prompted U.S. State Secretary John Kerry to say Lavrov was living in a “parallel universe”.
Russian Federation and the United States negotiated the latest ceasefire plan, but Syria ended the truce on Monday following an apparently accidental US-led coalition strike on Syrian soldiers.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 13 people were killed in the attack, including nine militants, some of them belonging to the Fatah al-Sham Front, an al Qaida-linked group previously known as the Nusra Front. “We’re in serious business here”, he said, calling the Syrian conflict “the greatest humanitarian catastrophe since World War II”.
He also said an airstrike on an aid convoy in Aleppo raised “profound doubt” as to whether Russian Federation and the Syrian government were committed to upholding the cessation of hostilities.
Despite escalating violence, United Nations officials pledged to resume aid deliveries to besieged areas, where an estimated 1 million Syrians live in dire need of humanitarian aid.
Russian Federation and Syria said they did not have anything to do with the attack but a new agreement for a longer ceasefire now seems to be even more hard to achieve.
An airstrike in northern Syria on Wednesday killed four medics responding to an earlier bombing raid, the Associated Press reported.
In a statement carried on state news Thursday the command calls on citizens to keep away from “terrorist groups”.
On Wednesday, Secretary of State John Kerry urged the grounding of all aircraft over parts of Syria to allow aid to reach civilians.
“The planes have not left the city’s skies and the bombing is continuous and indiscriminate”, said one activist inside opposition-controlled eastern Aleppo.
The UN has said it is ready to resume aid convoys in Syria after halting operations in response to a deadly attack on an aid mission on Monday.
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The Pentagon says there were no American or coalition aircraft near the convoy at the time of the attack.
