Международная коалиция во главе с США в минувшее воскресенье нанесла неожиданный удар по правительственным войскам Сирии. Заявление об этом официального Дамаска приводит сирийское агентство САНА, передает ТАСС.

Власти Сирии назвали атаку на свои объекты в провинции Дейр-эз-Зор на востоке САР "актом агрессии". Как отмечает МИД арабской республики, четыре самолета коалиции выпустили девять ракет по лагерю армии САР. Погибли трое военнослужащих, 13 человек были ранены.

Ранее сообщалось авиация западной коалиции нанесла удар по лагерю сирийских правительственных войск по ошибке.
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Mon Dec 7, 2015 11:38am EST

Syria accuses U.S. coalition of attacking army camp, Washington denies
BEIRUT  | By John Davison

Syria's government said the U.S.-led military coalition have carried out a deadly air strike on a Syrian army camp, but officials from the U.S-led alliance said the report was false.

Syria said four coalition jets killed three soldiers and wounded 13 in the eastern Deir al-Zor province on Sunday evening, calling it an act of aggression, the first time it has made such an accusation.

Any such strike by U.S.-led coalition planes, which have been focusing their fire on Islamic State militants, would further complicate an increasingly regional conflict now nearly five years old.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group reported earlier that jets likely to be from the coalition hit part of the Saeqa military camp near the town of Ayyash in Deir al-Zor province, killing four Syrian army personnel.

But Brett McGurk, U.S. President Barack Obama's envoy to the coalition, said on his Twitter account: "Reports of coalition involvement are false."

Colonel Steve Warren, a Baghdad-based spokesman for the U.S-led coalition, said the alliance had conducted four strikes in the Deir al-Zor province on Sunday, all against oil well heads.

"Our strikes were approximately 55 kilometers (35 miles)south east of Ayyash. We did not strike any vehicles or personnel targets. We have no indication any Syrian soldiers were near our strikes," he said.

A U.S. defense official, who declined to be named, dismissed the idea that the coalition would target the Syrian military.

"We are not at war with the Assad regime and have no reason to target the Syrian Army," the official said. "We are aware that Russia conducted long-range bomber strikes into Syria yesterday."

Mon Dec 7, 2015 1:42am EST

Four Syrian soldiers die in suspected U.S. coalition strike: group
BEIRUT

An air strike believed to have been carried out by the U.S.-led coalition killed four Syrian military personnel in Deir al Zor province, which is mostly held by Islamic State, a monitoring group said on Monday, in what would be the first time coalition warplanes had hit Syrian government forces.

A source close to the Syrian government confirmed the strike and said there had been casualties and vehicles destroyed.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strike hit part of the Saeqa military camp near the town of Ayyash in western Deir al Zor province and wounded 13 military personnel in the first such incident since the coalition began its bombing campaign against Islamic State in Syria.

The strike had hit some time in the last 24 hours, it said.

The U.S.-led force's campaign is against Islamic State, which controls most of Deir al Zor, including its capital, and has regularly targeted the group in the eastern Syrian province.

In Deir al Zor city, another air strike believed to be carried out by the coalition overnight killed a woman and two of her children, the Observatory said.

Deir al Zor province links Islamic State's de facto capital in Raqqa with territory controlled by the group in Iraq, and its oilfields are a major source of revenue for the group.

(Reporting by John Davison and Mariam Karouny; Editing by Nick Macfie)