The Observatory said aid trucks making a routine delivery organised by an global organisation to an area west of Aleppo city were hit near the town of Urm al-Kubra.
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Initial estimates indicate that at least 18 of the 31 trucks in the convoy were hit, as well as the Red Crescent warehouse in the area.
The Syrian army said the seven-day truce that was brokered by the United States and Russian Federation ended Monday, as previously declared.
The State Department said it was “outraged” by reports that a humanitarian aid convoy was bombed near the Syrian city of Aleppo, but is prepared to extend the cease-fire if Russian Federation pressures the Syrian government to abide by terms of the truce and ends a pattern of attacking aid convoys. If the cease-fire were to hold for a full week, the United States and Russian Federation would begin to coordinate military strikes against Syrian terrorist groups, including the Islamic State and the Nusra Front, which has renamed itself Jabhat Fateh al-Sham and is still considered affiliated with al Qaeda.
On Monday, a week after the cease-fire began, the Syrian army said the truce had expired, in a statement carried by state news agency SANA. So we need to see what the Russians say; but the point, the important thing is the Russians need to control Assad, who evidently is indiscriminately bombing, including of humanitarian convoys.
“Well, the Syrians didn’t make the deal”, Kerry told reporters in NY. “The most recent example of this is the flagrant USA aggression on a Syrian Arab Army position in Deir Ezzor for the benefit of ISIS”. There was no immediate comment from Syria or its chief ally, Russia.
But Assad’s forces continued to block shipments of aid to rebel-held areas, and on Monday declared an end to the truce, accusing the opposition of breaking it in turn.
A mistaken air raid by the US -led coalition also killed 62 Syrian soldiers. -Russian cease-fire deal have not been made public at the request of the United States. “So we need to see what the Russians say”, Kerry said before meeting Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef in NY.
A major rebel groups in Syria, Nour el-Din el-Zinki, said soon after the Syrian military declaration that the government, Russian Federation and Iran, another major ally of President Bashar Assad, are responsible for the truce’s failure.
The Pentagon acknowledged that it halted an airstrike by coalition planes Saturday after Russian Federation said the planes hit Syrian government forces, killing 62.
It accused “terrorist groups”, a term the government uses for all insurgents, of exploiting the calm to rearm while violating the ceasefire 300 times, and vowed to “continue fulfilling its national duties in fighting terrorism in order to bring back security and stability”.
Aid deliveries to the besieged eastern districts of Aleppo have not reached their destination. He said the USA has not even tried to get the opposition to hold its fire.
In the wake of the Syrian military declaration, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry acknowledged that the first stage of the truce – which called for a week of calm and the delivery of humanitarian aid to several besieged communities – had never really come to fruition.
The ceasefire is the second negotiated by Washington and Moscow since Russian Federation joined the war in September 2015.
The Syrian military said the coalition airstrike hit a base in Deir el-Zour that was surrounded by IS, allowing the extremists to advance and overrun Syrian army positions in the area.
Syrian state media said insurgents shelled residential areas in the northern city of Aleppo and the central province of Homs.
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The current tensions come on the heels of the weekend air strike by the US -led coalition on Syrian army positions near Deir el-Zour. The opposition reported on Monday 254 violations by government forces and their allies since the truce started.
