Aid convoy bombed in Syria as cease-fire hangs by thread

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is meeting with Secretary of State John Kerry today in New York to try to salvage the Syrian cease-fire after missiles decimated a humanitarian aid convoy overnight. Volunteers with Red Crescent described how about 20 missiles from land and air pummeled trucks and a warehouse for two hours in the dark. About 20 civilians died, and witness Mohammed Rasoul said the outpost was “erased from the face of the earth.” The Russian-backed Syrian government denies carrying out the attack, though Syria officially declared the cease-fire dead Monday after the United States mistakenly bombed one of its army’s positions. The goal of the cease-fire was to allow humanitarian aid to reach desperate civilians in war-torn cities and to bring the Syrian government and its U.S.-backed opposition together to defeat Islamic State (ISIS).

The Associated Press contributed to this report.