Residents of opposition-run eastern Aleppo reported new airstrikes Monday night in their besieged areas.
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George Sabra, of the opposition High Negotiations Committee, told The Associated Press on Monday that the truce has been repeatedly violated and did not succeed in its main objective or opening roads for aid. It said the militants are attacking Syrian army positions near a military academy and living quarters on southwestern outskirts of Aleppo, adding that the Syrian troops are fighting to repel the attack.
The UN said an aid convoy was hit in Aleppo province.
But from the start, the truce has been beset by difficulties and mutual accusations of violations.
A seven-day ceasefire declared expired at midnight, with no immediate announcement of its extension on Monday.
Rudskoi accused Washington of failing to fulfill its obligations under the truce deal – most importantly to separate the USA -backed opposition units from al-Qaida’s branch in Syria. It is not uncommon for the Coalition Air Operations Center to confer with Russian officials as a professional courtesy and to deconflict Coalition and Russian aircraft, although such contact is not required by the current U.S. – Russia Memorandum of Understanding on safety of flight.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a network of activists inside the country, reported the casualty figures. The U.S. military said it would not intentionally hit Syrian troops, and that it came as it was conducting a raid on IS positions. The government also said it repelled an insurgent attack on areas it controls south of Aleppo.
Russian Federation took the side of the Syrian government, blaming the rebels for violating the truce. The group said four civilians were killed in government-held areas.
Rebel forces and activists say government planes have bombed areas that are under the truce agreement, including rebel-held parts of Aleppo.
Denmark says two of its F-16 fighter jets took part in the USA -led air raid that killed dozens of Syrian soldiers over the weekend.
Another 20 U.N. trucks carrying enough flour and other food for 185,000 people are still stopped at the Turkey-Syria border, waiting for entry permits from the Assad government, according to a statement by U.N. Emergency Relief Coordinator Stephen O’Brien. I believe that the truce is clinically dead..
The US-led anti-IS coalition has been blamed for the deaths of more than 60 Syrian soldiers during an airstrike that hit a Syrian army outpost in the east of the country, thus further complicating the ceasefire.
The ministry statement came after the Russian military said that continuing rebel violations made it “meaningless” for the Syrian army to respect the deal. Damascus refers to all armed opposition groups as terrorists.
A Syrian activist group said 92 people have been killed in Syria since the start of the cease-fire.
“We are prepared to extend the cessation of hostilities, while working to strengthen it and expand deliveries of assistance”, Mr Kirby said in a statement released after the Syrian declaration. Together with Australia and Denmark, Britain said on Monday it had taken part in U.S-led air strikes in Syria over the weekend that Russian Federation says killed Assad forces.
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Plans to evacuate several hundred rebels from the last opposition-held district of Homs city have also overshadowed the agreement, with rebels saying it would amount to the government declaring the ceasefire over. Both Russia and Syria denied involvement; 20 civilians were killed and the United Nations suspended all aid deliveries pending a security review. It said the airstrikes were “on objective and planned in advance”, and killed dozens of Syrian soldiers.
