Aid deliveries to besieged and hard-to-reach areas were a key part of the partial truce brokered by the United States and Russian Federation, which lasted just a week. He recited Moscow’s changing narrative over a deadly attack this week on an aid convoy that has included everything from claims of a justifiable counterterror strike to vehicles spontaneously combusting.
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A medical relief organization says four of its staff have been killed in an attack on a medical facility in Syria. “We hope to resume convoys tomorrow and Friday, but still work on security guarantees”.
Some experts disagree. “In all reality the ceasefire is dead and combatants are returning to levels of fighting we saw before”, said Stratfor military analyst Sim Tack.
In the village of Khan Tuman, south of Aleppo city, two nurses and two drivers were killed in an attack on two ambulances, the Union of Syrian Medical Relief Organisations said. He called for the U.N.to expand its terrorism list to include groups at the fringes of a US -backed rebel umbrella group and called Washingtons errant strike an outrageous violation..
Tensions between the United States and Russian Federation escalated over a September 17 attack by the USA -led coalition against DAESH that killed dozens of Syrian soldiers in the eastern Deir al-Zor province.
The airstrike on a Syrian Arab Red Crescent convoy Monday night prompted worldwide condemnation over attacks targeting humanitarian facilities and workers.
We are at a make-or-break moment, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said, opening the session.
On Monday, humanitarian aid trucks were attacked when they were carrying supplies near the city of Aleppo.
The renewed battles demonstrated the thin prospects for reviving a truce that collapsed into fresh fighting and bombardments on Monday, including an attack on an aid convoy which US officials believe was carried out by Russian jets. “We would leave it to the Russians and the Syrian regime to explain their actions”, Captain Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesperson, said to the Guardian. “The evening of September 19 in the sky over that area at a height of 3600 metres and moving at a speed of 200 kilometres per hour there was an attack drone from the global coalition”, Russian military spokesman Igor Konashenkov said.
Ryabkov said the deal was the best possible option amid sharp disagreements over Syria, adding that Russian and US diplomats need to “calmly sit down and think what needs to be done to keep the agreement afloat”.
A war of words at the United Nations Wednesday as the USA and Russian Federation continued to accuse each other of carrying out Monday’s deadly attack on an aid convoy in Syria.
The Islamic State extremist group fired a munition at an Iraqi air force base that tested positive for mustard gas, the U.S. Defense Department said Wednesday.
“Of course we didn’t agree on that”, Gabriel said. The U.N. estimates 6 million Syrians live in besieged and hard-to-reach areas.
While separating the USA -backed group from their tactical alliances with the Nusra Front sounds logical, for the rebels it would often mean abandoning their home territory, leaving Nusra unchallenged and opening their towns to a U.S.
“It’s as if the planes are trying to compensate for all the days they didn’t drop bombs” during the ceasefire, Ammar al-Selmo, the head of the civil defence rescue service in opposition-held eastern Aleppo told Reuters.
In nearby Idlib, the Observatory said 12 civilians, including two children, were killed in at least eight air raids.
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Elsewhere in Syria, airstrikes on the opposition-run town of Talbiseh, outside of the central city of Homs, killed two civilians and wounded tens of others, according to the activist-run Talbiseh Media Center.
