The bombings came after advances by Turkish forces and allied Syrian rebels expelled IS from the last stretch of the Syrian-Turkish border under their control.
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He says infrastructure work is underway and that the water supply in and around Jarablus will be restored by Monday, with other services resuming Saturday.
“In effect then, a no-fly zone in those areas”, our correspondent added.
Both rebels and the Kurdish-backed forces have said they intend to move on al-Bab.
A deal to provide aid to Aleppo’s ravaged civilians and at least partially halt Russian and Syrian bombardments had looked likely on Sunday, before talks collapsed. Monitors quote civilians saying that more than 100 people took ill after a missile was sacked by a Syrian jet. “They have no pressure to bring against him because there have not been any developments in their [the opposition’s] favour”, the person said. A 13-year-old girl and a 29-year-old man died from further complications on Wednesday. Putin has denied his government was involved, but cheered the release of the information.
“But it is worth trying”, he said. In return, the Russians will receive the bodies of the two officer and three crew who were in the Russian military helicopter that was shot down on August 1 in the north-western province of Idlib, which remains nearly entirely controlled by a coalition of ISIL and other extremist rebels.
Russian officials had no immediate comment.
Aleppo was the target of an apparent chlorine attack on Tuesday.
Rebels and their jihadist allies had launched a major assault in Aleppo’s southern outskirts on July 31 in a bid to break the government’s encirclement of the eastern neighbourhoods.
Chlorine gas is a crude weapon that can be fatal in high concentrations.
State-run Anadolu News Agency quoted Gaziantep Deputy Governor Nursal Cakiroglu as saying that 250 refugees who have been living in Turkey on Wednesday declared their intention to go back home to Jarablus.
On Sunday, cautious optimism prevailed that a deal could be struck between Washington and Moscow, long at odds over policy in Syria.
Positive vision Diplomatic advocates of the vision say “it is a positive vision for Syria.it is extremely pragmatic, very heavy on continuity, inclusivity, excluding only a very few.it should reassure the Syrian middle that supports neither Assad or the extremists”. Moscow underscores the operation has not been sanctioned by the U.N. Security Council or the Syrian government.
“We are supporting the process, although we want a genuine ceasefire”, he said in London.
British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday called for the mistakes of the Iraq war to be avoided in finding a solution to the Syrian conflict, ahead of talks with the country’s opposition.
The Foreign Secretary hosted the High Negotiations Committee of the Syrian Opposition (HNC) on Wednesday and backed its proposals for a “gradual transition” of power in Syria. He also said that Russian Federation and all other foreign armed militias should leave Syria, noting that the ceasefire agreement has been violated “more than eight thousand times by the [Syrian] regime and Russian Federation”.
Writing in The Times, Johnson said Assad “bears overwhelming responsibility” for the Syrian war and describes his “killing machine, his barrel-bombs, and. his fight for personal political survival”.
President Barack Obama talks to the press after meeting with new British Prime Minister Theresa May.
Syria’s main opposition negotiating group would reject any deal struck by Russian Federation and the United States on Syria’s fate that was very different from its own proposed transition plan, the group’s general coordinator Riyad Hijab said on Wednesday.
“It’s not a question of keeping Assad in for six months or one month or one day, in this transitional period”. Hijab conceded there were formidable obstacles hindering the implementation of this plan.
Obama’s meeting with Putin comes as the Russian Federation leader is playing a prominent role in the presidential campaign at home.
The official said Obama raised concerns about cybersecurity issues with Putin, but would not detail the discussions. Kerry said the USA wanted a deal with the best chance for survival.
The official said the USA was eager to find an agreement quickly, mindful of the deteriorating conditions around the besieged city of Aleppo. The official would not be named discussing the private discussion, which also covered US concerns over cybersecurity and the situation in Ukraine.
In a “flash update ” on Tuesday, OCHA said figures from a camp coordination group show almost half of the displaced from Hama arrived in the neighboring rebel-held Idlib governorate.
A shortage of shelter means many displaced families are sleeping outdoors in parks, the United Nations agency said.
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Elsewhere, fighting between Islamic insurgents and government forces in Syria’s central Hama province displaced around 100,000 people over eight days.
