The army also said it would take “all measures to facilitate the reception” of civilians and that those who arrive at its checkpoints would not be arrested.
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One activist group said 10 people had been killed in Bustan al-Qasr.
Russian Federation and the United States failed to reach an agreement on the Syria crisis at a high-level meeting in NY on September 22, as the Syrian government announced a new offensive against rebel-held areas of Aleppo.
An estimated 250,000 civilians live in Aleppo’s eastern quarters.
Russia and the United States discussed the Syrian conflict in NY, hours after clashing over the issue at the United Nations, the Russian foreign ministry said Thursday.
Aircraft from Syria, Russia and the US -led coalition are targeting the Fatah al-Sham Front, which along with the Islamic State group was excluded from the cease-fire.
NEW YORK (AP) – The United States and Russian Federation ended any pretenses Thursday of their cease-fire for Syria remaining in force after days of increased violence and the Syrian military’s announcement of a new offensive in Aleppo.
Speaking to Associated Press, he said: ‘If there’s really a siege around the city of Aleppo, people would have been dead by now’.
Russia’s foreign ninister Sergey Lavrov, left, and USA secretary of state John Kerry have failed to revive the Syria ceasefire.
“We remain absolutely convinced there is no such thing as a military solution”, Kerry said. “Nor can we tell our partners that there is a cessation, when there isn’t”, Kerry told reporters.
It was one of Kerry’s most bitter exchanges with Moscow as secretary of state, laced with invective and outrage. “And we won’t get anywhere if we begin by ignoring facts and plain common sense, or denying the truth”, he said. “We can hear the planes right now”, Mohammad Abu Rajab, a radiologist, told reporters.
The announcement came just minutes after the United States and Russian Federation convened a last-ditch meeting in NY to save their Syria ceasefire plan and followed several hours of intensive bombardment that left Aleppo in flames.
General Igor Konashenkov said: We are not jumping to unfounded conclusions. “Time is short and eastern Aleppo is under attack”.
“The next few hours – days at maximum – are crucial for making it or breaking it”.
The United Nations is ready to restart vital aid convoys to Syria days after airstrikes targeted a humanitarian convoy near the northern city of Aleppo, killing 20 people, according to a U.N. envoy.
“We are sending today an inter-agency convoy that will cross conflict lines into a besieged area of rural Damascus”, Jens Laerke, spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), told Reuters.
Responding to Russian allegations, the Pentagon said Wednesday it had no aircraft flying anywhere near where a humanitarian aid convoy that was struck Monday in Aleppo, Syria.
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The spokesman hoped the United Nations could reach Aleppo “in the near future”.
