Meanwhile, an official for US President Barack Obama said the White House had relayed its “regret” for the “unintentional loss of life” to Russian Federation, and said they would continue to pursue compliance with the ceasefire.
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Syrian children slide down rubble of destroyed a building in the rebel-held city of Daraa, in southwestern Syria on September 12, 2016 as Muslims mark the first day of Eid al-Adha (Feast of the Sacrifice) holiday.
American military officials said the pilots in the attack believed they were targeting the Islamic State and added that the coalition had informed Russian officials about the strike beforehand.
The United States accused Russian Federation of grandstanding on Saturday by calling a U.N. Security Council meeting over USA -led coalition air strikes in Syria, as Russian Federation said the attacks killed dozens of Syrian soldiers and could endanger a truce deal between Moscow and Washington.
US-led coalition jets have bombed a Syrian army position in the country’s east, killing dozens of Syrian soldiers, say Russian authorities and a monitoring group.
Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov said the airstrike was carried out by two F-16s and two A-10s.
The Syrian Foreign Ministry called the US -led coalition airstrikes a “dangerous and blatant aggression against the Syrian Arab Republic and its army”.
The department said it would fully cooperate with a Coalition review of the incident. He says the planes came from the direction of the border with Iraq.
Russia, along with Iran and Arab Shi’ite militias backs President Bashar Assad, while some of the Sunni rebels seeking to unseat him are supported by the United States, Turkey and Gulf Arab states.
Earlier on Saturday, Russian President Vladimir Putin questioned the USA commitment to cease-fire, suggesting that Washington wasn’t prepared to break with “terrorist elements” battling Assad’s forces.
After the incident, Russian sources accused the USA of defending ISIS forces.
He appeared to be referring to Jabhat al-Nusra a group who recently claimed to have ended their links with al-Qaeda-linked and changed their name to Jabhat Fatah al-Sham. “While Syria remains a dynamic and complex operating environment, Australia would never target a known Syrian military unit”, the Defense Department in Canberra said.
Speaking at the United Nations in NY on Saturday, Power confirmed that the usa had carried out an airstrike on what it believed to be a position of the so-called “Islamic State” (IS) group.
Reacting to Russia, Samantha Power, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, accused their counterpart of pulling a “stunt” and added that it reflected on their hypocrisy of not highlighting human right violations conducted by the Assad regime, while Vitaly Churkin, the Russian U.N. envoy, dismissed Power’s statement as “demagoguery of the highest order”.
A key plank of the truce deal was the delivery of aid to areas including Aleppo, where an estimated 250,000 people in rebel-held areas of the city are living under government siege.
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It was halted immediately after the coalition was notified by the Russians, the official said.
