He said the Russian military had informed the United States about the incident.
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Kerry said. “And that is precisely what we are engaged in right now”.
The Aleppo offensive groups fighters from Fateh Al-Sham Front, formerly Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front, the powerful Ahrar Al-Sham and other factions.
At least two people were killed in that attack, according to the Aleppo Media Centre, another activist group, while the Syrian Civil Defence said two of its volunteers were wounded, one of them seriously, in a follow-up attack on the camp.
The army said at least a thousand insurgents had been killed since the assault began earlier this week.
Syria Civil Defense, a voluntary rescue group also known as the White Helmets, said in a Facebook post that 10 people had been killed by the strikes.
In the western, government-controlled areas, Unicef said 25 000 people have been displaced and are taking shelter from intense fighting in mosques, university campuses and public gardens.
Russian and Syrian forces say they have been operating seven so-called humanitarian corridors, allowing hundreds of people to leave the besieged area peacefully.
Terrorists are trying to prevent the population from fleeing the eastern part of the city of Aleppo the best they can, threatening to shoot civilians or publicly execute them.
The world’s chemical weapons watchdog Wednesday voiced concern over reports of a chlorine gas attack near the battleground Syrian city of Aleppo.
Across Syria, Egeland said, the United Nations was only able to meet 40 percent of its aid delivery targets for June and July.
Chvarkov said meanwhile that 372 Syrian civilians have used the “humanitarian corridors” set up by Russian Federation to flee rebel-held areas of Aleppo to government-controlled turf. The thick black smoke rising off the tires can be seen stretching across the city, darkening the horizon and greatly decreasing visibility from the sky.
Residents said the attack had used chlorine gas, but the monitor could not confirm this.
The United States and Russian Federation were in intensive discussions to “shore up” Syria’s collapsed nationwide truce and their military experts were still trying to agree a cooperation plan “that would unlock the entire solution”, Ramzy said.
A doctor from Idlib province told AFP on Wednesday that those affected had been treated and sent home.
“Bear with us. I think in the next few days there might be some movement” toward “credible talks”, he said in Geneva, where the International Syria Support Group held a meeting to discuss the situation in Aleppo.
A senior US official told CNN on Tuesday that the United States was not ready to officially call the incident a chemical attack.
The regime denied responsibility for the attack.
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This story was first published on CNN.com, “Syrian rebels push to break siege in Aleppo”.
