On the battlefront, fighting raged.
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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. The US and Russian Federation are also holding talks on coordinating more closely on the air operations each is conducting in Syria.
Neither commented directly on the Turkish proposal, though both said they wanted to build cooperation in fighting terrorism in Syria.
A second day of talks in China between Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, ended Monday without a deal to announce.
But the leaders did not “get down into the weeds”, the official said, saying the remaining disagreements were “technical” and would be discussed in the coming days by Kerry and Lavrov. He did not elaborate.
Kids in the rebel-held neighbourhood of Sheikh Saeed, near Aleppo, make use of a hole left after a missile attack.
Describing the current situation in Syria as one where the Assad regime is again “bombing with impunity”, Obama emphasized the need to reach a compromise quickly and provide needed humanitarian relief for civilians caught in the crossfire of the raging civil war. -Russian militarily partnership against extremist groups operating in Syria. Mr Kerry emerged briefly to announce a ceasefire had yet to be agreed.
Expressing further skepticism, Carter said that while “you’ve got to keep hoping, the experience suggests that we’re not close to that point” where Russian Federation will change its actions.
“This transitional period will begin with the departure of Bashar al-Assad and his clique, and of course those who have committed crimes against the Syrian people”, Hijab said.
On Wednesday, Johnson said a political transition plan presented in London by the Syrian opposition that requires President Bashar al-Assad to step down could help stalled peace talks to restart.
Since then, fighting in the devastating five-year conflict has intensified in many areas, especially around the strategic city of Aleppo in Northern Syria.
Syria’s crisis has become more urgent because even as U.S. -Russia talks continue the country is becoming more militarized, Staffan de Mistura, the United Nations Envoy for Syria, said on September 1.in Geneva.
The two leaders conversed on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit here for ninety minutes, a senior United States official said, and worked to clarify gaps in negotiations over on the Syrian crisis.
“We are supporting the process, although we want a genuine ceasefire”, he said.
Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin said from China Sunday that the Syrian conflict could only be solved through political means. Kerry said the USA wanted a deal with the best chance for survival.
“An terrible lot of technical things have been worked out, a lot of things are clear, but there still remain, as I say, “a couple of tough issues, Kerry told reporters”.
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Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, also speaking on the sidelines of the G20, said a deal was close but that the timing of any announcement could not be predicted.
