Syria: 3 troops killed by US-led strikes; US blames Russia

[Baneth]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35024408

The Syrian government has said three of its soldiers have been killed in a US-led coalition air strike, but the coalition has denied responsibility.

However, a coalition spokesman insisted that its forces had carried out no strikes in the area near the camp.
Responding to a later report that coalition air strikes may have killed up to 26 civilians in a separate strike in al-Hawl in northern Syria, a spokesman said allegations were taken very "seriously", adding that if the information was deemed "credible", an investigation would be launched and the results released publicly.

The Syrian foreign ministry said four coalition warplanes fired nine missiles at the camp in Deir al-Zour province on Sunday evening, killing three soldiers and wounding 13 others.

Three armoured vehicles, four military vehicles, heavy machine-guns and an arms and ammunition depot were destroyed, it added.

The ministry did not say which camp was hit, but the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights earlier reported that coalition jets had bombed part of the Saeqa camp, near the town of Ayyash in northern Deir al-Zour.

The UK-based monitoring group put the death toll at four.

However, coalition spokesman Col Steve Warren denied it was responsible.

"We've seen those Syrian reports but we did not conduct any strikes in that part of Deir al-Zour yesterday. So we see no evidence," he told the AFP news agency.

Col Warren said the only strikes in Deir al-Zour targeted a wellhead at an oil field 55km (34 miles) away from the area where the soldiers were reportedly killed.

"There were no human beings in the area that we struck yesterday," he added.

One unnamed US military source blamed Russia for the air strike.

However, Pentagon spokesman Capt Jeff Davis later said that although Russia did fly long-range bomber missions into Syria on Sunday, "we have not been able to correlate one to the other".

IS controls most of Deir al-Zour province, including almost all of its capital.

The province links the group's headquarters in Raqqa with territory controlled by the group in western Iraq, and its oilfields are also a major source of revenue for IS.

If coalition jets did hit the Syrian army camp - reported to be close to ground held by IS - it would be the first time such a thing is known to have happened since the US began air strikes in Syria, says the BBC's Jim Muir in Beirut.

heres another article on the subject where A US official points the blame on the Russians:
http://news.yahoo.com/us-says-russia...225009484.html

[caervek]

heres another article on the subject where A US official points the blame on the Russians:
http://news.yahoo.com/us-says-russia...225009484.html

The USA accuses Russia of accidentally bombing their own allies, but that's something the USA do, but the USA aren't allies with Syria.

It's a paradox!

[Shibito]

The usual blame the west and especially the US thread by the putinists on the forum never gets old, do you putinists have a poster on putin in a bikini?