{"id":249848,"date":"2016-09-20T06:26:14","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T06:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=249848"},"modified":"2016-09-20T06:26:14","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T06:26:14","slug":"us-outraged-over-syria-aid-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/09\/us-outraged-over-syria-aid-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"US ‘outraged’ over Syria aid attack"},"content":{"rendered":"
The US government has expressed “outrage” over an attack on an aid convoy near the Syrian city of Aleppo that, a war monitor says, left 12 dead.<\/p>\n
The UN has confirmed that the convoy was hit near the town of Urm al-Kubra, without giving details.<\/p>\n
But activists say an air strike hit the trucks hours after the army declared a US-Russian brokered truce over.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Washington says it will “reassess the future prospects for co-operation” with Moscow.<\/p>\n
“The destination of this convoy was known to the Syrian regime and the Russian Federation,” state department spokesman John Kirby said.<\/p>\n
“And yet these aid workers were killed in their attempt to provide relief to the Syrian people,” he added.<\/p>\n
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, said the attacks were carried out by either Syrian or Russian aircraft. Damascus has not commented.<\/p>\n
It added the dead included the Syrian Arab Red Crescent volunteers and drivers.<\/p>\n
The UN aid chief Stephen O’Brien said if the “callous attack” was found to be deliberate it would amount to a war crime.<\/p>\n