The U.S. has said it was not a coalition strike, but Syria’s government accused the U.S.-led alliance of bombing the army camp and hitting troops loyal to President Bashar Assad. The Foreign Ministry also penned a letter to the United Nations secretary general and the Security Council demanding “urgent measures”, in response to the attack.
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Syrian activists say at least 26 civilians, including children, have been killed in the north-east of the country by air strikes possibly carried out by the US-led coalition.
He said it was too early to say how long the process of assessing the credibility of the claims would take, noting “right now all we have is a statement that we’ve read in the newspapers, that’s not much to go on”.
The coalition began striking Islamic State’s Syria positions in September 2014, expanding its campaign from neighboring Iraq.
In Deir Ezzor city, another air strike believed to be carried out by the coalition killed a woman and two of her children, the Observatory said.
Civilians look out from a wrecked building in Syria’s northern city of Aleppo following a report …
The ministry said three armored vehicles, four military cars, a weapons cache and ammunition had also been destroyed.
“We are aware that Russian Federation conducted long-range bomber strikes into Syria (on Sunday)”.In Rome, Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said his country would host a ministerial meeting of the global coalition against Islamic State next month.
The government said three Syrian army soldiers were killed and 13 others injured in the strike.
The Observatory said four soldiers died in the first incident of US-led strikes killing Syrian troops.
Most of the province of Deir al-Zour is controlled by the Islamic State, but the Syrian government has held onto a portion of the city of Deir al-Zour throughout the four-year-old war.
Iraq meanwhile demanded the withdrawal of additional Turkish forces sent in last week to expand an anti-IS training mission in the country’s north, further highlighting the deep rifts among the various states battling IS, which have hindered efforts to roll back the extremist group.
Speaking to the AFP News Agency, however, Col Steve Warren at the joint coalition command centre said the allied forces’ only strikes in Deir al-Zour on Sunday were more than 30 miles away from the camp named in monitoring reports.
IHS estimated IS’s overall monthly income to be about $80 million (75 million euros) as of late 2015, around half of it from levies and confiscations.
Monday’s statement from the Foreign Ministry says that four aircraft belonging to the U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group targeted the army camp on Sunday night.
On Monday, Syria’s government said coalition planes had carried out a deadly air strike on the Syrian camp.
It was the first time Syria has accused the U.S.-led coalition of hitting its troops.
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The speech followed a shooting rampage in California last week that saw an apparently radicalised couple kill 14 people.
