Misery for trapped Syria civilians after ceasefire agreement fails

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called it a “terrible accident”. Activist groups said more than 50 bodies had been found since midnight on Friday alone.

He said: “When you talk about it as part of a global conflict and a regional conflict, when you have many external factors that you don’t control, it’s going to drag on”.

He called for the immediate grounding of planes and helicopters that have launched air strikes, including a Russian one earlier this week that the U.S. says hit an aid convoy, killing 20 civilians.

The US-Russian ceasefire deal was further endangered by an attack on an aid convoy in Aleppo province on Monday the left 20 dead and destroyed 18 trucks. He called for the U.N.to expand its terrorism list to include groups at the fringes of a US -backed rebel umbrella group and called Washington’s errant strike an “outrageous violation”. That’s what they should accuse first: the people or the militants, the terrorists who are responsible for the security of this convoy.

A senior U.S. State Department official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told reporters: “The ball is very much in the Russians’ court to come back to us with some ideas that are serious, that would be above and beyond the types of things they have been willing to agree to in the past with regard to air activities over large parts of Syria”. It has repeatedly changed hands between government forces and insurgents. However, as NPR’s Alison Meuse reported, an eyewitness said that “the attack consisted of helicopters and warplanes”.

“There are certainly deaths in the bombing (on Saturday) but we don’t have tolls yet and people are still trapped under the rubble”, said Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman.

In this Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016 photo released by the Syrian Presidency, Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks to The Associated Press, at the presidential palace in Damascus, Syria. “We don’t kill civilians, because we don’t have the moral incentive, we don’t have the interest to kill civilians”, he said.

“The Assad regime and with direct participation of its ally Russian Federation and Iranian militias has escalated its criminal and vicious attack on our people in Aleppo employing a scorched earth policy to destroy the city and uproot its people”, a statement signed by 30 mainstream rebel groups said on Sunday.

The denial of access to food, water and medicines has been used repeatedly as a weapon by all sides in Syria’s brutal five-year-old civil war. It denies targeting civilians.

FACTS: The U.N. has not said it was not an airstrike. Russian Federation was also accused of bombing a United Nations aid convoy last Monday that contributed to the breakdown of the fragile truce.

“It’s as if the planes are trying to compensate for all the days they didn’t drop bombs” during the ceasefire, Ammar al-Selmo, the head of the civil defence rescue service in opposition-held eastern Aleppo said.

“This course has no foundation, no logic”, said Rouhani, whose country has directed Iranian troops and Hezbollah forces in support of Assad. However, as The Guardian has reported, aid organizations “are refusing to share Global Positioning System coordinates with Russian and Syrian authorities because of repeated attacks on medical facilities and workers”.

An official says a rocket fired from Syria has struck the Turkish border town of Kilis, wounding at least three people.

Speaking about the almost five million refugees who have fled the violence in Syria, Assad called them a “great loss”.