The UN’s special envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, says no aid convoys have reached besieged areas of Syria during the month of August.
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He also urged “all those with access to or influence on the armed opposition, in particular the United States.to ensure that the armed opposition also respects the 48-hours humanitarian pause”.
The EU on Thursday called for an “immediate halt” to fighting, as the United Nations said aid was not reaching the besieged residents desperate for food and care.
The main Kurdish force in Syria known as the People’s Protection Units, or YPG, has been the main US -backed force in Syria and the most effective force in fighting the Islamic State group.
The sources also stressed Ankara’s preparedness to engage in joint operations with Russian Federation to fight the “Islamic State” (IS, aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh) terrorist group.
Otherwise, Haq said, “there’s no point in holding the talks”.
Continuing clashes between rebels and the Syrian army and allied militias were fiercest in the southwest of city, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitor of the five-year-old civil war, said on Friday.
On Thursday, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Moscow and Ankara had held “constructive and positive” talks on the war.
YPG spokesman Redur Khalil denounced Thursday’s government air raids on Hassakeh as an act of “suicide”, adding that Assad’s forces would be held accountable for these “brutal, blatant attacks against our people”.
Earlier this month, a coalition of rebel fighters broke a government-imposed siege on eastern Aleppo, but the corridor they opened is a war zone through which few supplies can enter, and was itself a key supply line for the government districts.
“Specific dates and times will be determined after information regarding the readiness of humanitarian convoys is received from the United Nations, as well as confirmation of safety guarantees from American partners”, he said.
He says aid could be sent from Gaziantep in Turkey to the eastern part of Aleppo via Castello road. He says another route to the western part of Aleppo would run from Handarat and further along the Castello road.
A Tupolev Tu-22M3 Backfire long-range bomber hits ISIS targets in Syria’s Aleppo, Deir Ez Zor and Idlib governorates.
Russian warplanes flying from airbases in Russia and Iran, continue to bomb opponents of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, some of whom are supported by Arab and Western powers.
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Syrian opposition activists have released haunting footage showing a young boy rescued from a partially destroyed building in the aftermath of a devastating airstrike in Aleppo. The image of Aylan, who died when a people smugglers’ boat taking his family and other refugees to a nearby Greek island capsized, swept across social media and was retweeted thousands of times.
