Under the deal, all sides were due to allow deliveries of food and other basic supplies to the battleground city of Aleppo after a ceasefire went into effect on Monday.
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Despite a cease-fire, aid convoys have been unable to reach the rebel-held parts of the city.
A statement from the U.S. Central Command on September 17 said “coalition forces would not intentionally strike” Syrian government forces.
A US-led coalition airstrike which reportedly killed 62 Syrian soldiers jeopardises an American-Russian deal on Syria, says Moscow. However, the cease-fire does not apply to attacks on the Islamic State group.
He said IS militants surrounding the air base launched an attack on the Syrian army positions after the air strike. She accused Russian Federation of being silent in the face of the use of airstrikes, chemical weapons and torture by the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
As part of a ceasefire agreement that took root on Monday, the U.S. promised Russian Federation that the two powers would begin combined air strikes if the truce between President Bashar al-Assad and rebel forces held for seven days.
This file photo taken shows armed men in uniform identified by Syrian Democratic forces as US special operations forces riding in the back of a pickup truck in the village of Fatisah in the northern Syrian province of Raqa.
Yet significant drama played out outside the meeting, as both Samantha Power, the USA ambassador to the United Nations, and Russian diplomat Vitaly Churkin delivered dueling statements to the press. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said in a statement.
The United States and its allies began launching strikes on Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria in 2014.
Samantha Power, US ambassador to the United Nations, has expressed regret for the loss of life after a coalition-led airstrike in Syria that Russian Federation claims killed more than 60 Syrian government troops.
Earlier on Saturday, Russian President Vladimir Putin questioned the US commitment to ceasefire, suggesting that Washington wasn’t prepared to break with “terrorist elements” battling Assad’s forces.
“I do hope that they will find a way to convince us and everybody else that they are serious about political settlement in Syria, serious about fighting terrorists”, he said.
A senior Syrian rebel was cited by Reuters as saying the truce “will not hold out” amid the fresh fighting.
Officials have provided details of the agreement in press conferences, but have not released an official document, fuelling suspicions on both sides.
Australian Defence aircraft were part of a bombing raid in Syria that may have hit that country’s military instead of Islamic State targets.
DPA reported that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that the airstrikes killed at least 83 Syrian soldiers and injured 120. It also calls for increased military cooperation between the US and Russian Federation after a seven-day period of calm and the sufficient delivery of humanitarian aid.
He said in a statement carried by the TASS Russian news agency that more than 100 were also wounded.
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Almost half a million people have been killed in the Syrian conflict since 2011.
