Airstrike in Syria hits medics responding to earlier bombing

It leaves the US military sitting and waiting on word from the State Department and the United Nations that the cease-fire has either officially been terminated or that the Syrian and Russian militaries have taken the appropriate steps to move forward with the deal initially struck.

Russian Federation and the U.S. have traded blame at a special UN Security Council meeting on Syria in NY.

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key presided over the intense showdown as the USA and Russian Federation tussled over the bloody conflict.

An airstrike that took place Monday night in Syria destroyed a United Nations relief aid convoy, killing 20 people.

Kerry outlined a list of USA complaints against President Bashar al-Assad’s government and Russian Federation, its chief backer. Yet following the convoy attack, the United Nations suspended overland aid operations in Syria.

“There are only two countries that have airplanes that are flying during the night, or flying at all in that particular area: Russian Federation and Syria”, he said.

US Secretary of State John Kerry has called for aircraft to be grounded in parts of Syria so a ceasefire deal can be extended.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called the attack “sickening, savage and apparently deliberate”.

The two diplomats also met with more than a dozen Arab and European foreign ministers belonging to the International Syria Support Group, hoping to hold onto what might be salvageable from a week of relative calm in Syria.

Russian President Vladimir Putin wants the United States to protect aid convoys in Syria, German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said after meeting him in Moscow.

The International Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations says an airstrike Tuesday night in northern Syria leveled a medical triage point in rebel-held territory outside the contested city of Aleppo.

“I know, it looks like a dream”, de Mistura said.

“Currently the Russian naval deployment to the east Mediterranean consists of no less than six battleships and three or four support vessels”, he said.

And Syrian forces launched a desperate rescue attempt to reach an air-force pilot whose plane had been shot down by Islamic State, fearing he would be tortured to death.

“In order to bolster the military capabilities of the group we plan to add the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier to the group”, Shoigu said, without specifying a timeframe. IS shot down a government aircraft on Sunday (Monday NZT) in the eastern Deir el-Zour province.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said Wednesday an armed drone belonging to the USA -led coalition was in the vicinity of a humanitarian aid convoy that was hit by an airstrike Monday in Syria, countering an assertion by American intelligence agencies that Russian aircraft conducted the strike.

The army reported carrying out air strikes on seven areas near Aleppo.

Moscow has denied being involved.

Laerke said the United Nations had suspended convoy movements for security reasons, adding that future aid deliveries would depend on a “further assessment of the security situation”. Kerry said there had to be action before that, and that the only way for faith in the ceasefire to be restored was for all Syrian planes to be stopped from flying over combat zones where humanitarian aid was delivered.

Soon afterward, Syrian warplanes resumed airstrikes in Aleppo, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

“We did not have any aircraft flying in that area at that time”, said the defense official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Tensions between the United States and Russian Federation escalated over a September 17 attack by the USA -led coalition against Islamic State that killed dozens of Syrian soldiers in the eastern Deir al-Zor province. “That does’t mean we’re not significantly concerned by the complete failure to show good faith on the Russian side”.