A senior Syrian opposition figure said on Monday the US-Russia-brokered ceasefire that went into effect in Syria a week ago is now “clinically dead”.
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The State Department said it held out hope that the cease-fire, which has been repeatedly violated, could yet be salvaged and possibly extended.
The seven-day truce brokered by Russian Federation and the U.S. was severely tested over the weekend when a USA coalition-led airstrike accidentally targeted a Syrian army base near Isis territory, killing more than 60 people.
Since then, more than a quarter of a million people have been killed and more than 10 million displaced across the war-battered country, according to United Nations figures.
For his part, Ansari said Iran determined on providing possible support to Syria in its fateful war on terrorism.
United Nations aid chief Stephen O’Brien said he was “deeply concerned” by the incident and called on “all parties to the conflict, once again, to take all necessary measures to protect humanitarian actors, civilians, and civilian infrastructure as required by worldwide humanitarian law”.
It had already been clear that the deal was in trouble.
After the incident, the United States said it may have unintentionally struck Syrian troops while carrying out a raid against the Islamic State group.
“The United States will raise this issue directly with Russian Federation”.
The US-Russian deal, whose details are still secret, calls for the eventual joint US-Russian targeting of militants including IS and the former Syrian branch of Al Qaeda.
The State Department called on Russian Federation to use its influence over Assad to extend the cease-fire and make way for aid. The statement said the rebels wasted a “real chance” to stop the bloodshed. “Russian agreements.” Despite the bad blood, the State Department has said it will continue to work with Russia to strengthen the agreement and increase humanitarian aid.
The air strikes appeared particularly heavy in insurgent-held areas west of Aleppo, near the rebel stronghold of Idlib province. “The humanitarian aid never reached any of the areas”.
In a statement carried by state news agency SANA, Syria’s army said a freeze on fighting it had announced last week had ended, blaming rebel groups it said “did not commit to a single element” of the truce deal.
The officials, who spoke to reporters on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter, said Russian Federation must take immediate action to demonstrate its seriousness in applying pressure for Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government to comply with the ceasefire.
Plans to evacuate several hundred rebels from the last opposition-held district of Homs city have also overshadowed the agreement, with the opposition saying it would amount to the regime declaring the ceasefire over.
Kerry’s optimistic view was challenged by Russian Federation.
No details were immediately available on the strike, but the second USA administration official said it was clearly an air attack and that US-led coalition jets weren’t responsible.
The Syrian military said it planned to end the truce, citing what it claimed were 300 cease-fire violations by armed “terrorist groups“, Reuters reported.
The United States, Russia, the Syrian government and the Syrian opposition have all traded allegations of truce violations.
Those convoys crossed frontlines but not national borders and the fact that the Aleppo convoys had to cross the border from Turkey was one of the complicating factors that had held it up, Egeland said.
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“The regime does not respect the terms and conditions of the truce”.
