Washington Denies U.S.-Led Coalition Hit Syria Army Camp

[Purveyor]

Source: Reuters

Syria's government said a U.S.-led military coalition carried out a deadly air strike on a Syrian army camp, but coalition officials said the report was false.

Syria said four coalition jets killed three of its soldiers and wounded 13 in the eastern province of Deir al-Zor on Sunday evening, calling it an act of aggression, the first time Damascus has made such an accusation.

Any such strike by U.S.-led coalition planes, which have focused their fire on Islamic State targets, would further complicate the increasingly regional conflict.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group earlier reported that jets likely to be from the coalition hit part of the Saeqa military camp near the town of Ayyash in Deir al-Zor province, killing four Syrian army personnel.

But a U.S. military official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the United States is certain that Russia was responsible for the deadly strike on the Syrian army camp.


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-idUSKBN0TQ2VG20151207#smkm02yIk8bv3qLT.97

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U.S.-Led Air Strikes Targeting ISIS Kill 26 Civilians in Syria, Activists Say

Monitoring group says coalition led by Washington most likely to blame

At least 26 Syrian civilians were killed Monday in an air strike suspected to have been conducted by the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS), a monitoring group has said.

The U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strike on the village of al-Khan in Hasakah province killed only civilians, including seven children.

A U.S. military spokesperson said reports of the civilian casualties would be taken “seriously” and if deemed credible the incident would be investigated.

In a separate incident, the Syrian government has accused the coalition of targeting a military camp Sunday in the country’s eastern Deir al-Zour province, killing three soldiers, reports the BBC. Syria’s Foreign Ministry condemned the exercise as one of “flagrant aggression.”

http://time.com/4140046/syria-airstrikes-coalition-civilians/

[rpannier]

1. For the next 10 days we'll be treated to denials,

then to possibilities, then it was mistake and we'll look into it until something new comes along and those civilians become a distant memory for most people