They come a day after US airstrikes in Syria, meant to target Islamic State fighters, hit a Syrian Army outpost, killing 62 soldiers.
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The U.S. military said it notified Russian Federation before the airstrike, saying the coalition would be conducting operations in the Deir el-Zour area.
“The amount of shelling by rebel groups against positions of Syrian government troops and of residential areas is increasing”, said defence ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov. The Pentagon said that coalition forces “would not intentionally strike a known Syrian military unit”. A Foreign Ministry statement on Sunday said that in an emergency U.N. Security Council session the United States took “an unconstructive and indistinct position”.
Power said Zakharova should be embarrassed by that claim, Reuters reported.
Power also said that the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman needs to be embarrassed for the statement that was issued after the airstrike, which claimed that the United States is coordinating with ISIS.
A strike list issued by the USA on September 17 said it had carried out a strike at Deir Ezzor against five ISIL supply routes, as well as strikes near Raqqa and elsewhere in Syria.
Russia’s foreign ministry said the strike jeopardised the US-Russian brokered truce and accused the coalition of being on the “boundary between criminal negligence and direct connivance with Islamic State terrorists”.
He blamed the attack on the United States military’s refusal to coordinate attacks with Russian forces, who have been pounding Daesh (ISIL) positions inside Syria since September of past year, on a request from Damascus.
The Russian government, though, said 62 were killed, AFP reported.
But the strike sent tensions soaring between Moscow and Washington, the chief sponsors of the truce, casting further into doubt the likelihood that they will be able to work together to end Syria’s war.
The U.S. also stopped bombing once they realized they were hitting Syrian government troops, according to a statement released by the Defense Department.
The Observatory said on Sunday the plane came down in the same area, which overlooks the government’s Deir Az Zor military airport.
The Observatory said at least eight people died and many were seriously injured when helicopters dropped barrel bombs onto a town in a rebel-held part of the southern Syrian province of Daraa on Sunday.
Insurgents say they only reluctantly accepted the initial deal to relieve the humanitarian situation in besieged areas they control, and blamed Russian Federation for undermining the ceasefire.
The Syrian government, assisted by Russian Federation, has tortured and bombed its people, Power said.
Islamic State is excluded from the truce.
“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.
Turnbull says Australian rules of engagement were to target the Islamic State movement.
The Syrian army said the raid had allowed Islamic State group fighters to gain ground around the key eastern airbase of Deir Ezzor, but a military source said government forces were back on the offensive Sunday.
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On Sunday, IS said it shot down a Syrian warplane near Deir Ezzor.
