Russia warns Syria rebels endangering cease-fire

The Syrian military said the coalition aircraft had hit a base which was surrounded by IS – enabling the militants to overrun their positions.

Konashenkov says Moscow still has not been able to contact the US-backed opposition to co-ordinate ceasefire efforts despite Washington’s assurances.

The Syrian military said earlier on Monday that the ceasefire had expired.

United Nations peace envoy Staffan de Mistura said all participants at Tuesday’s meeting reconfirmed support for the truce, even if Assad’s military and the rebels weren’t always respecting it. Russian Federation blasted the American military for the strike, which the Department of Defense called an accident.

A major rebel groups in Syria, Nour el-Din el-Zinki, said soon after the Syrian military declaration that the government, Russian Federation and Iran, another major ally of President Bashar Assad, are responsible for the truce’s failure.

“Syrian servicemen and peaceful citizens are still dying”.

The ceasefire deal came into force on the evening of September 12, with Syria’s army announcing a freeze on fighting across the country.

The ministry’s monitors on the ground reportedly registered some 53 ceasefire violations of the ceasefire over the past 24 hours.

Meanwhile, Syrian state TV reported that government warplanes attacked positions of the Islamic State group in eastern Deir el-Zour province on Monday.

Syria’s ceasefire appeared on the brink of collapse on Monday after a US-led coalition strike killed dozens of regime soldiers and Aleppo city was hit by its first air raids in almost a week.

The official added that if the Syrian government wanted to file damage claims against the USA -led coalition, it had “a number of avenues to do so”.

“The regime, once again, is blocking [humanitarian assistance]”.

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The Syrian government and its allies have mostly focused their firepower on western areas of the country that are of greatest significance to Assad, including the main cities of Damascus, Homs, Hama, Latakia, Tartous and Aleppo. “They also have not yet withdrawn their troops, arms and equipment from the road”, Rudskoy said.

Despite numerous violations by the government and Syrian rebels, the US has few other options for ending a conflict that has killed a half-million people, contributed to Europe’s worst refugee crisis since World War II and allowed the Islamic State group to emerge as a global threat.

MOD says it can “confirm that the United Kingdom participated in the recent coalition airstrike in Syria, south of Deir el-Zour on Saturday, and we are fully cooperating with the coalition investigation”.

UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs Stephen O’Brien said he was “pained and disappointed” that the convoy had yet to cross into Syria from Turkey.

The US-Russian deal set out steps including a nationwide ceasefire, aid deliveries, and joint US-Russian targeting of jihadists including Islamic State and a faction formerly affiliated to al Qaeda. Kerry however suggested that such a facility had not been established because of Assad.

“So let me just say this clearly: Russian Federation signed up to a cessation of hostilities”. Assad said he would live by it.

The strike has threatened an already fragile US – and Russia-brokered cease-fire that has largely held despite dozens of alleged violations on both sides.