Theresa May said the United Kingdom would “never intentionally strike or focus on Syrian forces” after Britain admitted being part of a coalition air attack that has been claimed to have killed dozens of Bashar Assad’s troops.
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However, Russia’s defence ministry appeared to bury hopes that the truce would last past Monday night. Badawi’s team arrived on the scene after the first land missiles hit. The Pentagon admitted it may have hit Syrian troops but said it had been tracking an IS position there.
Konashenkov remarks on Tuesday were reported by the state news agency Tass.
SARC Aleppo director Omar Barakat was among the dead, Mardini said.
The attack on Syrian troops was immediately halted after Russian Federation noticed the Syrian military was being hit.
Earlier, the Russian military denied it was behind the strikes.
“While we have seen comments attributed to the Syrian military, our arrangement is with Russian Federation, which is responsible for the Syrian regime’s compliance, so we expect Russian Federation to clarify their position”, he said. The group also reported that convoys carrying humanitarian aid shipments had not received permission to enter the city, which desperately needs them.
It is unclear whether the airstrike was carried out by Russian warplanes or Syrian government forces.
On Sunday, the Syrian army showed NBC News damaged areas of government-held Western Aleppo.
Ingy Sedky, of the International Committee of the Red Cross, described the situation at the scene as “very chaotic”.
At least 32 people were killed and many more wounded in the northern province of Aleppo on Monday, in the first hours after a U.S.
The convoy was part of a routine interagency dispatch operated by the Syrian Red Crescent. ICRC President Peter Maurer said the attack was a “flagrant violation of global humanitarian law” and “totally unacceptable”.
Syrian activists and paramedics had said earlier that the airstrikes killed 12 people.
Ibrahim Alhaj told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Syrian civilians will pay the price for the decision.
United Nations aid chief Stephen O’Brien said he was “deeply concerned” by the incident and called on “all parties to the conflict, once again, to take all necessary measures to protect humanitarian actors, civilians, and civilian infrastructure as required by worldwide humanitarian law”.
“We have not had seven days of calm and of delivery of humanitarian goods”, Kerry said.
Both convoys are still sitting at the Turkey-Syria border, where they have been for nearly a week, United Nations spokesman Jens Laerke said.
The United States, Russia and other key players in the Syria peace process are to meet Tuesday in NY, said the US State Department.
“Let me be clear: if this callous attack is found to be a deliberate targeting of humanitarians, it would amount to a war crime”, O’Brian said.
“Our arrangement is with Russian Federation, which is responsible for the Syrian regime’s compliance, so we expect Russian Federation to clarify their position”, U.S. State Department spokesman John Kirby said in a statement.
A spokesman for the State Department, John Kirby, released a statement on Monday saying the U.S.is “prepared to extend the cessation of hostilities”, and noting that the cease-fire was negotiated between the USA and Russian Federation, which has yet to comment.
“The destination of this convoy was known to the Syrian regime and the Russian federation and yet these aid workers were killed in their attempt to provide relief to the Syrian people”, State Department spokesperson John Kirby said in a statement.
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Initial estimates indicated that at least 18 of the 31 trucks in the convoy were hit. American officials said, however, that conditions were still not right for U.S.
