“The Syrians are dropping barrel bombs and the Russian planes are launching strikes”, he said.
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Other residents reported that one of two water stations feeding the city had been hit. He cited USA inability to control “terrorist” groups and a weekend attack that killed dozens of Syrian soldiers. Five of the victims were in al-Sukkari and 15 others in Bustan al-Qasr and Kallasseh.
The airstrikes against their facilities have made it more hard for the rescuers to help other people impacted.
The intense bombing and the declaration of a new offensive come as diplomatic efforts failed to salvage a cease-fire that lasted almost a week, before giving way to a new level of violence. “They’re the biggest thing we’ve seen since the beginning of the violence, not in Aleppo and not anywhere else”, he added.
With prospects plummeting to revive an all but dead Syria cease-fire, the United States and Russian Federation have grudgingly agreed to another round of talks to keep hopes alive.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition-leaning monitoring group, also reports heavy aerial bombardment from Syria’s Russian allies.
Speaking in Washington to the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday, General Joseph F. Dunford Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said there were Russian and Syrian aircraft in the area at the time of the strike.
The Associated Press sat down with Syrian President Bashar Assad at a palace in downtown Damascus. “Nor do we tell our partners that there’s a cessation [of hostilities] when there isn’t”.
“We can’t be the only ones trying to hold this door open”, the U.S. secretary of state said.
The group said an intense bombing campaign had targeted several neighbourhoods in the rebel-held part of Aleppo city, including centres of the award-winning volunteer civil defence group known as the White Helmets. At least 13 people, including women and children, are believed to have died. Like Syria, Russia has denied carrying out the bombing.
“All of our information indicates clearly that this was an airstrike”.
“Whether they conducted it or not – because they’ve taken responsibility for the conduct of Syrians by associating themselves with the Syrian regime”, Carter said. The simple reality is that we can’t resolve a crisis if one side is unwilling to do what is necessary to avoid escalation. The Pentagon has said the pilots behind that strike meant to target Islamic State fighters and called it off after a warning from Russian Federation that the attack might be hitting Syrian troops.
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The UN resumed its aid deliveries on Thursday, after trucks were temporarily halted due to the deadly strike on a convoy in the north of Syria. It’s an interagency humanitarian effort of the United Nations and SARC, carrying aid for 7,000 people, according to a tweet from the SARC.
