Summary
Syria's government said the U.S.-led military coalition has carried out a deadly airstrike on a Syrian army camp, but officials from the 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.
A U.S. military official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the United States is certain that Russia was responsible for the deadly strike on the Syrian army camp .
A U.S. defense official, who declined to be named, dismissed the idea that the coalition would target the Syrian military.
The U.S.-led coalition first launched airstrikes against ISIS in Syria in September 2014, after beginning aerial operations against the group in neighboring Iraq the previous month.
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