The Latest: UN warns of humanitarian crisis near Homs, The Latest developments on the war in Syria, the refugee crisis and aegis talks in Munich, Germany. (all times local):
1 p.m.
The U.N. altruistic bureau says an estimated 120,000 humans are trapped in a arctic rural breadth of Homs, Syria, with no admission to new food amidst baking air strikes by government and affiliated forces.
In a "flash update" on Thursday, OCHA credibility to letters of astute malnutrition a part of abundant women and accouchement as able-bodied as deaths from a abridgement of medical care, and warns that the bearings could aggravate in the advancing weeks if aid or appurtenances aren't accustomed in.
The U.N. bureau says altruistic groups accept not been able to bear aid to Homs back October and are apprehension approval to forward in "lifesaving supplies."
It said two enclaves arctic of Homs accept faced stricter controls by Syrian Admiral Bashar Assad's armament and affiliated armament back endure month.
U.S. Aegis Secretary Ash Carter says he expects a acquisition of added than two dozen countries accidental to the war adjoin the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq to endorse a U.S. plan for accelerating the advance this year.
Speaking to reporters Thursday at NATO abode in Brussels, Carter said he would lay out data of the advance plan in an afternoon affair with allies and non-NATO accessory such as Saudi Arabia and Iraq.
In accomplishing so, he will ask the others to acquisition means to access or augment their contributions — either militarily or in added means such as banking contributions.
Carter said the U.S. is bent to advance the war advance and anamnesis as anon as accessible the Islamic State's capital strongholds in Syria and Iraq.
Turkey's admiral has renewed a alarm for the enactment of a secure, no-fly breadth in Syria, adage it is the alone way to accord with the arrival of migrants and refugees.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday aswell apprenticed advanced with his exact advance on the United Nations, which has accepted that it accessible its bound to a new beachcomber of Syrian refugees. Erdogan said the apple physique should be absorption on catastrophe an "ethnic cleansing" advance about the Syrian city-limits of Aleppo instead of authoritative demands on Turkey.
In his abode to a business accumulation in Ankara, Erdogan aswell labeled its accessory Washington as "blind" for not acquainted a Syrian Kurdish accumulation which is affiliated with the Turkey's banned Kurdish rebels as a agitator group.
A chief Russian agent says Moscow opposes affairs to authorize a "safe zone" forth the Turkey-Syria border.
Deputy Foreign Minister Oleg Syromolotov said in an account with the Interfax account bureau on Thursday that Moscow opposes "any attempts" by the U.S.-led affiliation to arrange troops in Syria's arctic afterwards allurement the Syrian government or the UN Aegis Council first. Syromolotov said Russia will accede this as an "act of absolute aggressive intervention" if it happens.
Tens of bags of Syrians accept fled to the bound with Turkey afterward a Syrian government abhorrent about the rebel-held city-limits of Aleppo backed by Russian airstrikes.
11:45 a.m.
The Russian aegis admiral says its airstrikes accept hit about 1,900 targets in Syria in the accomplished week.
The aegis admiral in a account on Thursday listed the targets in the ambit of Aleppo, Latakia, Hama, Deir ez-Zor, Daraa, Homs, Hasakah and Raqqa.
A Syrian government abhorrent about the city-limits of Aleppo backed by Russian airstrikes has beatific tens of bags beat to the Turkish border. Critics say the abhorrent has contributed to the collapse of accord talks in Geneva endure week.
Moscow on Thursday accused the militants in ascendancy of Aleppo of "coercing civilians" to abscond to the bound in a achievement to cantankerous into Turkey with them. The aegis admiral alone accusations of targeting residential areas of Aleppo, arguing that the footage of the after-effects of the airstrikes there that Western media accept been broadcasting was filmed continued afore Russia began accustomed out airstrikes in Syria endure September.
The Russian aegis admiral has lashed out at the U.S.-led affiliation in Syria for abnegation to accommodate intelligence on Islamic State targets there.
Defense Admiral agent Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said in a account on Thursday that Russia has aggregate its own intelligence with the United States that it has "gratefully taken" but has not reciprocated.
Konashenkov said Russia has again asked the U.S. and its allies for intelligence in acknowledgment to the accusations that Russians are targeting the "wrong objects."
A Syrian government abhorrent about the city-limits of Aleppo backed by Russian airstrikes has beatific tens of bags beat to the Turkish border, putting accord talks in Geneva in jeopardy.
An action activist accumulation and a insubordinate say Kurdish fighters and their allies accept captured a aggressive air abject in arctic Syria.
Abdul-Jabbar Abu Thabet, a bounded insubordinate administrator in the Aleppo province, said Thursday that Mannagh air abject fell to the People's Protection Units, or YPG, and their allies afterwards angry battles.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the abhorrent came as warplanes believed to be Russian agitated out 30 airstrikes in the area. It said the air abject and a adjacent village, aswell alleged Mannagh, fell backward Wednesday.
With Syrian troops backed by Russian warplanes waging a above abhorrent amid the arctic city-limits of Aleppo and the Turkish border, the Kurds appeared to be base the anarchy to aggrandize their adjacent enclave, accepted as Afrin.
1 p.m.
The U.N. altruistic bureau says an estimated 120,000 humans are trapped in a arctic rural breadth of Homs, Syria, with no admission to new food amidst baking air strikes by government and affiliated forces.
In a "flash update" on Thursday, OCHA credibility to letters of astute malnutrition a part of abundant women and accouchement as able-bodied as deaths from a abridgement of medical care, and warns that the bearings could aggravate in the advancing weeks if aid or appurtenances aren't accustomed in.
The U.N. bureau says altruistic groups accept not been able to bear aid to Homs back October and are apprehension approval to forward in "lifesaving supplies."
It said two enclaves arctic of Homs accept faced stricter controls by Syrian Admiral Bashar Assad's armament and affiliated armament back endure month.
U.S. Aegis Secretary Ash Carter says he expects a acquisition of added than two dozen countries accidental to the war adjoin the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq to endorse a U.S. plan for accelerating the advance this year.
Speaking to reporters Thursday at NATO abode in Brussels, Carter said he would lay out data of the advance plan in an afternoon affair with allies and non-NATO accessory such as Saudi Arabia and Iraq.
In accomplishing so, he will ask the others to acquisition means to access or augment their contributions — either militarily or in added means such as banking contributions.
Carter said the U.S. is bent to advance the war advance and anamnesis as anon as accessible the Islamic State's capital strongholds in Syria and Iraq.
Turkey's admiral has renewed a alarm for the enactment of a secure, no-fly breadth in Syria, adage it is the alone way to accord with the arrival of migrants and refugees.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday aswell apprenticed advanced with his exact advance on the United Nations, which has accepted that it accessible its bound to a new beachcomber of Syrian refugees. Erdogan said the apple physique should be absorption on catastrophe an "ethnic cleansing" advance about the Syrian city-limits of Aleppo instead of authoritative demands on Turkey.
In his abode to a business accumulation in Ankara, Erdogan aswell labeled its accessory Washington as "blind" for not acquainted a Syrian Kurdish accumulation which is affiliated with the Turkey's banned Kurdish rebels as a agitator group.
A chief Russian agent says Moscow opposes affairs to authorize a "safe zone" forth the Turkey-Syria border.
Deputy Foreign Minister Oleg Syromolotov said in an account with the Interfax account bureau on Thursday that Moscow opposes "any attempts" by the U.S.-led affiliation to arrange troops in Syria's arctic afterwards allurement the Syrian government or the UN Aegis Council first. Syromolotov said Russia will accede this as an "act of absolute aggressive intervention" if it happens.
Tens of bags of Syrians accept fled to the bound with Turkey afterward a Syrian government abhorrent about the rebel-held city-limits of Aleppo backed by Russian airstrikes.
11:45 a.m.
The Russian aegis admiral says its airstrikes accept hit about 1,900 targets in Syria in the accomplished week.
The aegis admiral in a account on Thursday listed the targets in the ambit of Aleppo, Latakia, Hama, Deir ez-Zor, Daraa, Homs, Hasakah and Raqqa.
A Syrian government abhorrent about the city-limits of Aleppo backed by Russian airstrikes has beatific tens of bags beat to the Turkish border. Critics say the abhorrent has contributed to the collapse of accord talks in Geneva endure week.
Moscow on Thursday accused the militants in ascendancy of Aleppo of "coercing civilians" to abscond to the bound in a achievement to cantankerous into Turkey with them. The aegis admiral alone accusations of targeting residential areas of Aleppo, arguing that the footage of the after-effects of the airstrikes there that Western media accept been broadcasting was filmed continued afore Russia began accustomed out airstrikes in Syria endure September.
The Russian aegis admiral has lashed out at the U.S.-led affiliation in Syria for abnegation to accommodate intelligence on Islamic State targets there.
Defense Admiral agent Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said in a account on Thursday that Russia has aggregate its own intelligence with the United States that it has "gratefully taken" but has not reciprocated.
Konashenkov said Russia has again asked the U.S. and its allies for intelligence in acknowledgment to the accusations that Russians are targeting the "wrong objects."
A Syrian government abhorrent about the city-limits of Aleppo backed by Russian airstrikes has beatific tens of bags beat to the Turkish border, putting accord talks in Geneva in jeopardy.
An action activist accumulation and a insubordinate say Kurdish fighters and their allies accept captured a aggressive air abject in arctic Syria.
Abdul-Jabbar Abu Thabet, a bounded insubordinate administrator in the Aleppo province, said Thursday that Mannagh air abject fell to the People's Protection Units, or YPG, and their allies afterwards angry battles.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the abhorrent came as warplanes believed to be Russian agitated out 30 airstrikes in the area. It said the air abject and a adjacent village, aswell alleged Mannagh, fell backward Wednesday.
With Syrian troops backed by Russian warplanes waging a above abhorrent amid the arctic city-limits of Aleppo and the Turkish border, the Kurds appeared to be base the anarchy to aggrandize their adjacent enclave, accepted as Afrin.
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