Australian and Danish warplanes were involved in that attack on Syrian army positions.
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‘It is a very complex environment and as soon as the coalition commanders were advised by the Russians that Syrian forces were being affected, the operation discontinued, ‘ he told reporters in NY.
It says a joint convoy of 45 ICRC, Syrian Arab Red Crescent and United Nations trucks delivered almost 17,000 food parcels as well as 1,000 bulk food rations to the town of 84,000 residents on Monday. Defense Minister Marise Payne told Australian Broadcasting Corp. on Monday that Australia is taking part in a US review of the airstrikes.
“We are at a new stage that requires making the decision to embrace reconciliation”, Diab said in a statement carried by the state news agency, SANA.
On Monday, convoys of food and medical aid were en route to two hard-to-reach areas in Syria, said David Swanson, a spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Syria’s almost week-old ceasefire was facing a crucial deadline on Monday as the Syrian army said the truce could expire later in the day after a particularly bloody weekend. The U.S. and Russian Federation have said that if it holds for seven days, it should be followed by the establishment of a Joint Implementation Center for both countries to coordinate the identification of targets against Islamic State and al-Qaida-linked militants.
US Secretary of State John Kerry, however, described the cessation of hostilities as “holding but fragile”.
A Syrian activist group said 92 people have been killed in Syria since the start of the cease-fire.
Egged on by Russia, Damascus immediately used the botched US-lead air raids as evidence to support its claim that Washington is actually backing the Islamic State in the Syrian war.
Russian Federation called the strike a “bad omen” for its deal with the USA to halt Syria’s war, which has killed more than 300,000 people since it erupted in 2011.
Kerry called on Russian Federation to stop Assad from undermining the peace deal because “there are no good options” to stop the crisis in Syria, and that the options that do exist are “ugly”.
Kerry said Assad was a “spoiler” in the cease-fire, and called on Moscow to “stop the grandstanding, stop the showboating, and get the humanitarian assistance going”.
By Monday, both the Syrian government and prominent opposition activists were speaking of the truce as if it had already failed. He said the USA has not even tried to get the opposition to hold its fire. He says the USA has not even tried to get the opposition to hold its fire.
A truce brokered by the United States and Russian Federation has “practically failed and has ended” and there is no hope that aid will be delivered to rebel-held eastern Aleppo, a Syrian rebel official said on Monday.
Since September 12, a total of 26 civilians, including eight children, have been killed in areas where the truce had been set to take hold, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Aid deliveries to the besieged eastern districts of Aleppo, a key point in the truce agreement, have not reached their destination.
The agreement, negotiated by top diplomats from government backer Russian Federation and the United States, saw an initial drop in fighting across the country after it came into force on September 12. A Foreign Ministry statement on Sunday said that in an emergency U.N. Security Council session the United States took “an unconstructive and indistinct position”. Two U.S. officials also confirmed that a tank was among the vehicles hit in the strike, raising more questions about what kind of intelligence led the coalition aircraft to conclude Islamic State militants were operating the military equipment. Britain, Denmark and Australia have since acknowledged that their planes took part in the airstrike – which Moscow says killed at least 62 Syrian soldiers.
The station says Monday’s airstrikes targeted IS positions in areas such as the Tharda Mountain, overlooking the airport of the city of Deir el-Zour.
The U.S. military has admitted that it may have unintentionally struck Syrian troops while carrying out a raid against IS on Saturday.
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Acting Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce said the loss of Syrian soldiers is tragic but the greater tragedy would be letting Islamic State extremists win.
