The advance regained territory lost to the terrorists Saturday when Syrian troops were hit with airstrikes by the US -led coalition.
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The Russian Defense Ministry said 62 Syrians were killed, and the Syrian government said the coalition airstrike allowed the Islamic State to advance around Deir el-Zour province where the attack took place.
The Saturday night raid, which the United States claims was unintentional, lasted for 40 minutes and killed at least 90 regime troops near Deir el-Zour on Saturday, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Amaq, a news outlet affiliated to Daesh, said in an online statement released on Sunday that the jet came down in Jebel Tharda area, near the Dayr al-Zawr military airport.
The US-led coalition confirmed in a statement on Saturday that it had mistakenly bombed a Syrian army airbase, killing dozens of Syrian government troops.
Russia’s defence ministry said more than 60 Syrian soldiers were killed and around 100 wounded in four strikes by two F-16s and two A-10s.
Russia’s foreign ministry said that Moscow was “deeply concerned” over the airstrike, warning that the incident might jeopardize the implementation of the U.S. -Russia cease-fire plan.
The Pentagon said the USA strike has unintentionally targeted the Syrian government forces.
Under the ceasefire agreement, the U.S. and Russian Federation would work together to target the Fatah al-Sham Front, as well as the Islamic State group, while Assad’s forces refrain from striking opposition-held areas.
Washington’s mistaken air strikes on Syrian government forces raise several questions; not least why American aircraft were hitting what they thought were IS positions in an area where IS was engaged with Syrian forces.
He called the strike a “bad omen” for the US-Russia deal on halting the war in Syria, which has killed more than 300,000 people since it erupted in March 2011.
And she said a Russian foreign ministry spokesman should be “embarrassed” for issuing a statement suggesting that the air strike indicated that the U.S. was complicit in trying to help IS.
In an interview with the Tasnim News Agency on Sunday, Sattaam Mujhim al-Dandal slammed as a lie the USA claim that the airstrikes on the Syrian military forces were a mistake.
Russia’s defense ministry said conditions in Syria were deteriorating, adding that it believed the ceasefire had been breached 199 times by rebels and saying the U.S. would be responsible if it were to collapse.
A senior adviser to President Bashar al-Assad Sunday said the strike against Syrian soldiers was “intentional”, but said Damascus remained committed to a fragile truce. -Russian brokered ceasefire and prompting an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting as tensions between Moscow and Washington escalated.
A United States military official speaking to the AFP news agency appeared to confirm the attack, saying “we believe about a half-dozen vehicles, including what we think was a tank, were struck as well as personnel who were out in the open”.
Russian Federation said the United States was being obstructive and deceptive regarding the airstrike.
Meanwhile, truckloads of humanitarian aid destined for the beleaguered city of Aleppo remained stuck on the Turkish border on Sunday, with the United Nations saying it was waiting for guarantees from both Syrian rebels and government forces for safe passage. It said the airstrikes were “on objective and planned in advance”, and killed dozens of Syrian soldiers.
The first airstrikes on Aleppo since the ceasefire began on Monday evening were reported on Sunday.
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Deir al-Zour, where the airstrike took place, is far from the populated western region, where the separate civil war that is the subject of the cease-fire is focused.
