Airstrikes were also reported in Aleppo, Syria’s largest city and former commercial hub.
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A fragile ceasefire between Bashar al Assad’s regime and Syrian opposition forces that was brokered by the USA and Russian Federation last week has ended, with no word of a renewed truce on Monday.
‘We can confirm that the UK participated in the coalition air strike south of Dayr az Zawr on Saturday, and we are fully co-operating with the coalition investigation.The UK would not intentionally target Syrian military units.
Syria’s military blamed rebel groups for undermining the cease-fire aimed at bringing an end to the country’s bloody five-year civil war.
A mistaken air raid by the USA -led coalition also killed 62 Syrian soldiers.
On Sunday, rebel-held parts of Aleppo were targeted in aerial attacks for the first time since the truce went into effect, leaving a woman dead and several people wounded, according to opposition activists. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights gave a different death toll, saying 90 troops were killed in the strikes. The U.N. accused the government of obstructing the delivery while Russian officials said rebels opened fire at the delivery roads.
Ayrault put forward a French proposal to set up a monitoring mechanism of the ceasefire and said all sides must unite to shore up the US-Russian deal. Either way, they destroyed half a dozen vehicles and killed the personnel around them.
“Syria’s army announces the end of the freeze on fighting that began at 7:00 pm (1600 GMT) on September 12, 2016 in accordance with the US-Russia agreement”, the statement carried by Syria’s official news agency, SANA, said on Monday.
The Syrian military said the coalition aircraft had hit a base which was surrounded by IS – enabling the militants to overrun their positions.
The Observatory said on Sunday the plane came down in the same area, which overlooks the government’s Deir Az Zor military airport. The offensive, he said, will last until the area “is no longer a threat” to Turkey.
The US military has said that it may have mistakenly hit Syrian forces while conducting strikes against Islamic State (Isis) in eastern Syria. Tens of thousands of people live in government-held neighborhoods of Deir el-Zour under the siege of IS fighters.
IS controls much of the province that carries the same name and borders Iraq. The cease-fire does not include IS and al-Qaida-linked militants.
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“The objective of this USA aggression is to bring about the failure of the truce agreed between Russian Federation and the United States”, said Bashar Jaafari, Syria’s ambassador to the United Nations, speaking to journalists through an interpreter at a Non-Aligned Movement summit in Venezuela.
