Washington denies US-led coalition hit Syria army camp

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group, 13 more military personnel were wounded in the strike, which it said took place near the town of Ayyash on Sunday evening.

A series of air strikes killed three Syrian soldiers in the country’s east, Syria’s government said on Monday, accusing the US-led coalition of responsibility for the attack.

The strike had hit some time in the last 24 hours, it said.

“The aggression on the military post hinders the efforts aiming to fight terrorism and reiterates that the US-led coalition lacks seriousness and credibility in the fight against terrorism”, the Foreign Ministry statement said.

Russian Federation also began launching air strikes in Syria in September.

Responding to the later report that coalition air strikes may have killed civilians in the strike in Hasakah province, 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.

However the United States military insisted that the coalition had carried out no strikes in the area near the camp.

Colonel Steve Warren, a spokesman for the coalition, said there had been four strikes in the province on Sunday but all of them were against oil infrastructure.

The U.S.-led coalition said it’s also reviewing reports that its airstrikes against Islamic State militants Monday killed at least 36 civilians, including 20 children, in a village in eastern Syria.

If confirmed, the attack would be the first time the coalition has hit Syrian troops in its 16-month bombing campaign.

While the United States and its allies remain opposed to President Assad, they have stopped short of using military force against his interests.

As well as taking sides in the long battle between the embattled President Bashar al-Assad and rebels fighting against him, global powers have stepped into a campaign against Isis fighters who have seized control of a swathe of Syria and Iraq. Airstrikes were also carried out across other strategic strongholds spanning eastern and northern Syria.

“We believe that global terrorism, in particular ISIL, which has effectively occupied a sizeable part of Syria and Iraq, poses an equal threat to all of us, all the nations”, he said.

The province links Islamic State’s de facto capital in Raqqa with territory controlled by the group in Iraq.

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“It’s very confusing and hard to know” which airstrike is being carried out by which country “with all [these] warplanes and airstrikes above our heads”, the group said on its Twitter account.