Syrian government says US-led coalition hit army camp killing three soldiers

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Warplanes from US-led coalition bombed a Syrian army camp in Deir al Zor province, according to the Syrian government.

The Syrian government has accused the United States of “aggression” after at least three regime soldiers were killed in airstrike that Damascus hasblamed on the American-led alliance fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isil).

Three Syrian soldiers were killed and another 13 wounded when an airstrike hit a military camp near the city of Deir Ezzor on Sunday evening, Syria’s foreign ministry said.

Four jets fired nine missiles at the camp during the attack, which destroyed three armoured vehicles, four military cars and a weapons ammunition dump.

President Assad's government claims the US-led coalition carried out strikes on their army camp Photo: AP Photo/SANA

The ministry said it had written letters of protest to the United Nations condemning what it called “flagrant aggression…which goes firmly agains the aims of the U.N. charter,” the Syrian state news agency SANA reported.


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