The Islamic State controls much of the eastern province, although there are some widely scattered Syrian military installations in the scantily-populated area and near the city of Deir al-Zour.
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One of the most powerful insurgent groups in Aleppo province denied that government forces had withdrawn from the Castello road.
Despite four days of truce, no emergency aid has been able to reach about 300,000 people trapped in a rebel-held area of Aleppo.
The U.N. has accused Assad’s government of obstructing aid access to the contested city.
Russian Federation says it is using its influence with the Syrian government to keep the ceasefire alive although admits there are “mutual recriminations”.
Aid deliveries are part of a U.S. -Russia deal that imposed the cease-fire.
Earnest says the crux of the agreement has always been the need for Russian Federation to use its influence on Assad.
The truce went into effect earlier this week in Syria and has been mostly holding across the war-torn country despite minor violations. Nour el-Din el-Zinki group said in statement that their observation posts in the area have confirmed that government forces are still on the road.
Although fighting has diminished in the western part of the country where the civil war is taking place, no aid deliveries have yet begun because of what the United Nations has said is the government’s failure to guarantee the safety of the truck convoys. Several previous negotiated cease-fires have unraveled and efforts to hold the peace talks have stalled.
The Syrian Foreign Ministry said it sent an urgent message asking the Security Council to “condemn the US aggression”, TASS reported, citing a statement released by Syria’s SANA news.
He says that under the deal, opposition units were supposed to move away in lockstep but have failed to do so. “The U.S. will continue to pursue compliance with the Cessation of Hostilities as we continue military action against ISIL and Al Qaida”.
Some 135 heads of state and government and dozens of ministers were expected to attend the 71st UN General Assembly in the coming week.
Syria’s foreign ministry is asking the United Nations to condemn USA aggression and require it to respect Syrian sovereignty.
Gatilov’s remarks were reported on Thursday by the Interfax news agency.
The U.S. -led coalition has been conducting air strikes against Islamic State since September 2014 and is also supporting rebels against Assad elsewhere in Syria.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says Friday’s fighting is concentrated in the neighborhood of Jobar, next to Qaboun. “We know that there is at least a quarter of a million people in eastern Aleppo who are potentially all of them in need of some kind of aid”.
The Russian Defense Ministry said earlier Saturday the US -led coalition killed 62 Syrian government troops and injured some 100 others in a round of airstrikes in eastern Syria’s province of Deir al-Zour.
He said the Syrian government had not provided the necessary “facilitation letters”, or permits, to allow the aid convoys to reach opposition areas, disappointing even Russian Federation, the Syrian president’s key backer. Syrian state media said there were 32 violations by rebels on Sunday alone.
Russian Federation is a key ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government and has been carrying out airstrikes on behalf of his forces since previous year.
It says Thursday that government forces will not start pulling out until the rebels begin to do the same.
The ceasefire deal went into effect Monday and calls for a halt to the violence between the Syrian regime and rebel forces, but it does not cover militant groups considered terrorists, such as ISIS and Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, formerly known as al Nusra Front.
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With the arrival of USA forces, the focus would turn to the town of Dabiq, about 40 kilometers (24 miles) northeast of Aleppo and 10 kilometers south of Syria’s border with Turkey.
