Kurdish fighters capture military air base in northern Syria

“We responded that we are going to propose weekly meetings on humanitarian situation in Yemen till the political settlement is reached there and, given this heightened interest of the Security Council to humanitarian matters, we need to revisit the humanitarian situation in Libya”, the Russian envoy said.

Earlier this week, the Levantine Front, an Islamist faction that holds a small amount of territory in northern Aleppo Province, began complaining that they are fighting on several fronts, facing the Syrian military advance, along with ISIS and Kurdish pressure on their respective frontiers.

New Zealand along with Spain requested the meeting.

The report comes as foreign ministers were gathering in Munich Thursday, with the West desperate to breathe new life into a Syrian peace process that has all but collapsed in the face of a Russian-backed onslaught against the opposition.

Discussions come amid fresh warnings of a worsening humanitarian situation.

Mike Corder in The Hague, Netherlands contributed.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday furiously criticized the USA alliance with Syrian Kurds, saying it was turning the region into “a pool of blood”.

The rebels say they will not return to talks in Geneva, pencilled in for February 25, unless government sieges and air strikes end.

But after having long demanded Assad’s ouster, the shift in the US focus to combating terrorism has resulted in a confusing mix of priorities and a layered strategy in Syria that few understand, and even fewer see working.

Lavrov and Kerry reiterated their opposition to any preconditions and ultimatums, based on requirements of the resolution.

Turkey considers the Kurdish Democratic Union Party, or PYD, which is affiliated with Turkey’s own Kurdish rebels as a terror group.

On Monday, U.S. State Department Spokesman John Kirby said that his country does not recognize the PYD as a terrorist organization.

In his address to a business group in Ankara, Erdogan also labeled its ally Washington as “blind” for not recognizing a Syrian Kurdish group which is affiliated with the Turkey’s outlawed Kurdish rebels as a terrorist group. Erdogan said in a speech in Ankara to provincial officials, addressing the United States.

Kerry emphasized on Tuesday that US officials “are not blind to what is happening”.

Turkey, already home to about 3 million refugees – including more than 2.5 million Syrians – is providing assistance to the new wave of refugees at displaced persons camps on the Syrian side of the border. But it has not let them in, prompting UNHCR on Tuesday to call on Turkey to admit them.

Emergency cases are brought to the Bab al-Salama hospital before being sent to Turkey, which has closed the border to refugees but is letting in the severely wounded.

Rebels say the Kurdish YPG militias have been taking advantage of their preoccupation with fending off a Syrian army ground offensive launched last week in the northern Aleppo countryside to gain ground in the area near a main border crossing with Turkey.

Kurdish militants killed two Turkish soldiers and one police officer, Turkey’s military and state-run media said on Wednesday, with the rebels in one incident trying to cross the border into Turkey from neighbouring Syria.

The base has been held by fighters opposed to the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad since August 2013.

Troops have captured dozens of villages in the area.

Anadolu Agency, citing unnamed security sources Wednesday, said four men, 10 women and 20 children were stopped near the town of Oguzeli, in Gaziantep province. They said he appeared to believe that since he achieved what some saw as unachievable by getting a nuclear deal with Iran he could do the same with Syria.

There was no information on the nationalities of those detained.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius also questioned the commitment of the United States.

Anadolu said an investigation was underway.