“However, the situation and reporting on it continues to evolve and we are unable at this time to independently verify casualties”, he added.
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So we need to see what the Russians say; but the point, the important thing is the Russians need to control [Syrian President Bashar] Assad, who evidently is indiscriminately bombing including of humanitarian convoys.
Mr Egeland added: “It is outrageous that it was hit while offloading at warehouses”.
Meanwhile the United Nations said the Syrian government has obstructed the delivery of aid to besieged areas like Aleppo, a key component of the deal.
“As the terms of the ceasefire are not respected by militants, we consider observing it unilaterally by the Syrian government forces would be senseless”, Rudskoy added. The International Committee of the Red Cross says 20 civilians were killed in the aid convoy attack.
A rescue worker who witnessed the strikes on a Red Crescent warehouse and trucks carrying United Nations aid in Syria says more than 20 missiles pounded the area for hours, even hitting his team as they searched the debris for survivors.
President Bashar al-Assad on Monday described the deadly US-led coalition raid on his forces in eastern Syria at the weekend as “flagrant American aggression”.
Spokesman John Kirby said Russian Federation, which is responsible for ensuring Syria’s compliance, should clarify the Syrian position.
The United States, Russia, the Syrian government and the Syrian opposition have all traded allegations of truce violations.
The troops were surrounded by Islamic State fighters, and the strikes “paved the way for ISIS terrorists to attack” a nearby hilltop, Syria’s military said in a statement reported by the state-run news agency.
While acknowledging numerous violations, Kirby said the truce, which took effect last Monday, had been responsible for “a measure of reduced violence”.
Aid deliveries to the besieged eastern districts of Aleppo have not reached their destination.
Aid was delivered to the besieged town of Talbiseh in Homs province on Monday, the Red Cross said, for the first time since July.
The State Department says that Jund al-Aqsa has been determined to “have committed, or pose a significant risk of committing, acts of terrorism that threaten the security of US nationals or the national security, foreign policy or economy of the United States”.
Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov brokered the ceasefire that went into effect September 12.
Syria’s army said the seven day truce period had ended. -Russian coordination center to plan military strikes against the Islamic State group and a powerful al-Qaida-linked militant faction. The statement said the rebels wasted a “real chance” to stop the bloodshed.
He said the airstrikes on Aleppo province, including the ones that hit the convoy, were part of some 40 air raids that lasted about two hours – starting at about 7:30 p.m. Monday – and that “it was mostly Russian warplanes who carried out the air raid”.
The U.N. accused the government of obstructing the delivery while Russian officials said rebels opened fire at the delivery roads.
More than 300,000 people have been killed and millions displaced since the Syria conflict started in 2011 with anti-government protests.
He denounced the Syrian military declaration, but also suggested that Russian Federation was partly to blame.
The current tensions come on the heels of the weekend air strike by the USA -led coalition on Syrian army positions near Deir el-Zour.
Shortly after Syria’s armed forces declared that the truce was dead and blamed opposition rebels for undermining it, Kerry noted that the cease-fire had not produced the desired reduction in violence and sustained delivery of humanitarian aid.
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“Whenever the Syrian state achieves tangible progress either on the ground or in national reconciliations, the states that are hostile to Syria increase their support for terrorist organizations”, Assad said Monday, according to Syria’s state media outlet SANA.
