“We regret the loss of life and injury to any Syrian personnel affected”, Mr Turnbull told reporters on Sunday in NY, where he is for the annual United Nations General Assembly.
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“As soon as the coalition were advised that there were Syrian government personnel that had been affected by the strike, the operation was discontinued”, Mr Turnbull told reporters in NY, echoing the earlier Defence statement.
Turkey hit Islamic State targets within Syria with warplanes, according to Dogan, the Observatory and a rebel commander.
He says he regrets “the loss of life and injury to any Syrian personnel affected”.
It said coalition forces “would not intentionally strike a known Syrian military unit”.
Although violence has diminished, the United Nations has accused the Syrian government of failing to grant permission for safe passage of aid convoys.
CBS News correspondent David Martin reports the U.S.is still trying to figure out why, as a Defense official says, “we didn’t hit the right guys”.
Kerry told CNN on Sunday that Assad is a “spoiler” in the process, and called on Russian Federation to “stop the grandstanding, stop the showboating, and get the humanitarian assistance going”.
The al-Rahman Legion, part of a Free Syrian Army rebel alliance in the Damascus suburbs, said in an online statement its fighters had destroyed a Syrian government tank and killed soldiers after government forces tried to storm Jobar for the second time in a week.
In a statement, the ministry said the apparent strikes were “a direct outcome of the American side’s stubborn reluctance to coordinate with Russian Federation their anti-terrorist operations in Syria”.
Syrian military officials accused the U.S. of launching the attacks to “benefit ISIS”, who overran the bombed army base not long thereafter. The Russian air force has been carrying out strikes across Syria to bolster President Bashar Assad’s forces for almost a year, and the two militaries work in close coordination.
People move an injured man inside a field hospital after an airstrike in the opposition-held town of Dael, in Daraa Governorate, Syria September 18, 2016.
Moscow laid the blame squarely on the opposition after activists reported the strikes Sunday, the first since the weeklong cease-fire went into effect. Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj.
Regime ally Russian Federation and the USA, which backs some opposition groups, have blamed each other for cracks in the ceasefire.
USA officials “not only turned out to be unable to give an adequate explanation of what happened, but also tried, as is their custom, to turn everything upside down”, the statement said.
Seven days after a US and Russian-backed cease-fire took effect in Syria, aid has still not reached the besieged city of Aleppo on Monday and the truce’s two main backers are trading accusations.
Yesterday, IS said it shot down a Syrian warplane near the city.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said several people were wounded but could not immediately give details about casualties or identify who carried out the strikes.
President Bashar al-Assad called the strikes, which officials said killed more than 60 soldiers, the “latest example of flagrant American aggression against Syrian army positions in the interests of the terrorist organisation Daesh [IS]”.
“I am pained and disappointed that a United Nations convoy has yet to cross into Syria from Turkey, and safely reach eastern Aleppo”, the U.N. Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs Stephen O’Brien said in a statement.
Secretary of State John Kerry accused Russian Federation on Sunday of “grandstanding” and “showboating” after its Defense Ministry said USA airstrikes killed 62 Syrian soldiers and wounded 100 others.
Syria’s state news agency SANA reported that government jets on Sunday unleashed intense strikes against gatherings of Daesh fighters in Deir al-Zour and killed “dozens” of them.
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A United States official said the USA military believed reports that about 60 Syrian troops were killed but declined to speculate on the number of wounded.
