Fighting displaces 100000 in central Syria in 8 days

In Wednesday’s airstrike, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least one child was among the victims of what was a presumed to have been a Russian or Syrian government attack on the al-Sukkari neighborhood in Aleppo.

Accusations of chemical attacks have been a fixture of the Syrian conflict with both the government and rebels blaming the other during the past five years.

An alliance of rebel and jihadist forces launched an offensive in late August in the province, seizing several areas in a rapid advance and aiming for the airport in Hama, from which regime helicopters fly regular sorties against opposition fighters.

The proposed process would start with six months of negotiations to set up a transitional administration made up of figures from the opposition, the government and civil society.

Fighting in Syria’s Hama governorate displaced an estimated 100,000 people between August 28 and September.

In another operation in the northern suburbs of Hama, the Syrian troops managed to retake control of some areas and kill over 70 armed militants.

In a “flash update”, OCHA says figures from a camp coordination group show almost half of the displaced arrived in the neighboring Idlib governorate.

The U.N. agency, OCHA, said about half of the displaced from Hama have sought refuge in the province’s government-controlled capital, while the rest fled to neighboring rebel-held Idlib province.

The Red Crescent had provided aid to roughly 35,000 people in Hama, and the United Nations on 4 September sent a convoy of 12 trucks to the province, including aid for another 15,000 people. Of those, 4.8 million are refugees with almost 7 million displaced internally. Hijab conceded there were formidable obstacles hindering the implementation of this plan.

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson backed the proposal by the High Negotiations Committee in a column Wednesday in The Times newspaper, saying Assad could have no part in a future government and bore “overwhelming responsibility” for the massive loss of life in Syria.

Syria’s opposition set out detailed plans yesterday for the transition to a democratic state without President Bashar Al-Assad ahead of talks with ministers of EU, US and regional powers in London.