Mohammed Alloush, chief negotiator for the Syrian opposition, said on Sunday he was resigning over the failure of the talks to bring peace or ease the plight of civilians in besieged areas.
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Alloush, from the Saudi-based High Negotiations Committee, or HNC, said the peace talks were a “waste of time”, as none of the opposition demands were met.
The HNC suspended its involvement in the UN-brokered “proximity” negotiations with a Syrian government delegation in Geneva in April over intensifying of regime air strikes in recent weeks.
Alloush went on to blame the United Nations for what he described as the world body’s failure to set the agenda of peace talks, calling on the Free Syrian Army and other anti-regime groups to unite against the common enemy.
The HNC will meet in Riyadh in 10 days to form a delegation for upcoming peace talks and select his replacement, a spokeswoman said.
DAESH has executed 322 people representing the opposition, besides 464 of its own members over various charges including spying for foreign countries. The group said it had deployed its entire Idlib corps to take part in rescue operations.
Mohamed Alloush said in a statement that the talks had also failed to secure the release of thousands of detainees, or to push Syria towards a political transition without President Bashar al-Assad.
“We look forward to continuing our work with all sides to ensure that the process moves forward”, she said.
The Observatory says hospitals were not targeted, but damaged when bombs struck nearby.
Meanwhile, opposition activists reported intense government airstrikes in the northern province of Aleppo on Monday.
Syria has been plagued with an armed conflict since 2011, with the Syrian army fighting opposition factions and Islamist extremists, such as the Islamic State and Nusra Front, both banned in Russian Federation and many other countries.
It said that the rebels surrendered control of a village near Marea to an SDF division in exchange for allowing 6,000 civilians to evacuate to areas under Kurdish control.
Also Monday, an global plan to deliver aid to hundreds of thousands of people living in besieged areas appeared to be in peril, with the deadline looming closer.
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Information for this article was contributed by Hugh Naylor of The Washington Post and by Jamey Keaten and Albert Aji of The Associated Press.
