Earlier, Syrian regime troops managed to cut off the main supply road for opposition rebels -known as Castello road- and imposed a full siege over the city of Aleppo, however Syrian rebels eventually were be able to break the siege after getting reinforcements from other regions like Idlib. “They must cease”, Trudeau said Thursday during the daily briefing.
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Russian Federation said Thursday it would consider extending a three-hour a day humanitarian ceasefire around Aleppo, but all sides of the conflict continued clashes on the ground.
“We do not need tears or sympathy or even prayers”, read the letter, the full text of which is below.
The U.S.is working with the United Nations and others, including Russian Federation, to “find a diplomatic approach to reducing the violence in a sustainable way, and allow unimpeded lifesaving humanitarian access into places like Aleppo”, according to Trudeau.
The UN envoy and his special adviser Jan Egeland both underscored that a three-hour pause is not enough for humanitarian workers, Haq said, adding that they have reiterated the UN’s request for a 48-hour pause so that humanitarian convoys can effectively go into Aleppo and provide aid. “But now we face death from all around”, the doctors wrote.
De Mistura said he could not verify the reports.
“It’s really not for me to assess who did it and whether it actually took place, although there’s a lot of evidence that it actually did take place”, said Staffan de Mistura, UN Special Envoy for Syria. He added that if it did, it would be a war crime and it would require everyone to address it immediately.
“It has been two years and more since these [Syrian opposition] groups started launching heinous assaults using chemical weapons and other banned materials against unarmed civilians in the besieged Kurdish neighbourhood of Sheikh Maqsoud in Aleppo”, the YPG leadership said.
In an open letter to President Obama, 15 of the last remaining doctors in Aleppo called on the U.S.to intervene in the war-ravaged city.
The letter lambasts the USA, saying it had seen “no effort on behalf of the United States to lift the siege or even use its influence to push the parties to protect civilians”.
For five years, we have faced death from above on a daily basis.
Cavusoglu also said Turkey would resume airstrikes against IS targets in Syria, months after they were suspended amid the row with Moscow.
What pains us most, as doctors, is choosing who will live and who will die. Right now, there is an attack on a medical facility every 17 hours. Young children are sometimes brought into our emergency rooms so badly injured that we have to prioritize those with better chances, or simply don’t have the equipment to help them.
Continued US inaction to protect the civilians of Syria means that our plight is being wilfully tolerated by those in the worldwide corridors of power. The United States accused the Syrian government of that attack, which it estimates killed 1429 people, including at least 426 children.
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“Our forces are trying to keep Kurdish areas safe, we’ve never tried to involve ourselves in the fighting between opposition groups and regime troops”, the YPG official told ARA News.
