Foreign terrorists from a rebel group considered moderate by Washington are responsible for using toxic gas shells that killed seven and injured 23 in Aleppo on Tuesday, according to a statement from the Russian Ministry of Defense. Insurgents fired rocket launchers and homemade mortars at the Castello shopping mall, the areas of Ansar and al-Hadher as well as the Leramon district, it said.
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“Given the deteriorating situation, it is time for Russian Federation to show it is serious about pursuing these objectives”, Obama said, warning he was not confident he could trust Putin.
Rebels detonated a bomb in a tunnel underneath a government position in the Ramouseh area, the observatory said.
According to the Observatory, about 50 rebels and dozens of regime troops have been killed since the assault kicked off on Sunday. It said the area the chemical weapons were launched from was controlled by Harakat Nour El Din Zenki, a rebel group which has been under scrutiny after footage emerged last month showing some of its men beheading a 12-year-old boy accused of being a pro-regime fighter.
The strikes came despite an appeal by US Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday for Russian Federation to “restrain” itself and its ally in Damascus from “offensive operations”.
“There [doesn’t] need to be corridors”.
Jan Egeland, an adviser to U.N.’s special envoy to Syria, says only 40 percent of planned humanitarian relief was delivered in June and July.
“We are ready to go as soon as we have the pause, and we have a two-way corridor with supplies going into the people in eastern Aleppo, but also western Aleppo, which has now become much more exposed to problems, and which has enormous access problems as well”, he told reporters in Geneva.
“They are absolutely prohibited from depriving civilians of basic goods such as food or medical assistance needed for survival, said Mr. Puras, underscoring that “all people in Syria must have their fundamental human rights guaranteed”.
The New York-based Physicians for Human Rights group said the last week of July was the worst week for attacks on medical facilities in the region since the Syrian war began in 2011. “It’s like we’re erasing a century of progress for humanity, for civilization”.
A Syrian rescue service operating in rebel-held territory said on Tuesday that a helicopter dropped containers of toxic gas overnight on a town close to where a Russian military helicopter had been shot down hours earlier.
Obama pledged the IS group would “inevitably” be crushed and said the US-led coalition would continue to aggressively target the militants “across every front”.
A doctor in Saraqeb who told CNN he treated some of those affected said their symptoms were consistent with chlorine poisoning.
“But Russia has failed to take the necessary steps”.
When asked if the USA believed that this was Moscow’s intention, a senior State Department official said, “It’s hard to know what their ultimate goal is”.
“The United States is supporting these animals who used poison gas against the civilian population”, Zakharova wrote.
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This story was first published on CNN.com, “Syrian rebels push to break siege in Aleppo”.
