US-led coalition denies it killed Syrian troops

A Qatar-based American military official says the US-led coalition has no indication that the alliance aircraft killed Syrian troops in Syria.

The Syrian government says aircraft belonging to the coalition launched nine missiles on a Syrian army camp in the eastern city of Deir el-Zour Sunday night, killing at least three soldiers and wounding 13 on Sunday night.

Lt. Col. Kristi Beckman, director of public affairs at the Combined Air Operations Center at al-Udeid air base in Qatar, says there was no indication that the coalition had killed Syrian troops.

Beckman tells The Associated Press that the US operations center is “aware of the incident” but that at this time it does not “have any indication our strikes killed Syrian soldiers.”

— AP