The Australian Government has said the US-led coalition’s attack on Syrian Government troops, which involved Australian aircraft, was a mistake – the mission was supposed to be targeting IS. Here’s a closer look at his statements and the facts surrounding them.
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Syria’s President, Bashar al-Assad has flatly rejected claims he or his Russian allies were responsible for the attack on an worldwide aid convoy at the start of the week. How could they know that the Americans are going to attack that position in order to gather their militants to attack right away and to capture it one hour after the strike? He questioned whether witnesses of the attack were credible and said videos of the incident showed only “a burnt auto, destroyed trucks, nothing else”.
The US has directly blamed Russian Federation for the attack on the Aleppo convoy, which Moscow denies.
Eyewitness accounts reported that the attack came from the air and involved barrel bombs, unguided crude bombs used by the Syrian regime. There is footage of torn bodies.
“The response of the Russians was not satisfying”, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said after the meeting on the sidelines of the annual United Nations gathering of world leaders. “We are not saying what it was”.
“So please, President Assad, do your bit to enable us get to eastern Aleppo and also the other besieged areas”. “You don’t commit a mistake for more than one hour”. At least 54 Red Crescent volunteers have been killed in Syria. DEIR EL-ZOUR STRIKE ASSAD: He said he didn’t accept the U.S explanation that it was a mistake when US -led coalition aircraft this weekend attacked Syrian troops in the eastern province of Deir el-Zour, killing over 60 soldiers.
During the course of the AP interview, Assad also repeatedly denied assertions that his government’s troops have carried out a broad range of human rights abuses and criminal actions, insisting that such actions would defy logic. Britain, Denmark and Australia have since acknowledged that their planes took part in the airstrike.
Syria and the United States have been at loggerheads since the September 17 U.S.
UN trucks loaded with food, medical and other supplies for 35,000 people arrived in the rebel-held besieged Damascus suburb of Mouadamiya, UN spokesman Jens Laerke said. He told the AP that “I’m sure that the majority of those Syrians who left Syria, they will go back when the security and when the life goes back to its normality and the minimal requirements for livelihood will be affordable to them, they will go back”. Heavy clashes also gripped the outskirts of Aleppo on Thursday. Assad cast doubt on the intentions of the USA in Syria, saying it “doesn’t have the will” to fight militants.
If the deteriorating cease-fire in Syria is to be salvaged, Kerry said Wednesday, warplanes must stop bombing places where humanitarian agencies are trying to deliver food and medicine.
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“There have been tens, maybe, of convoys from different organisations around the world, coming to different areas in Syria for the last few years”.
