This has been coming from variois sources today.
Damascus has proof US talked to ISIS militants ahead of airstrike on Syrian forces – lawmaker
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U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer supersonic bomber © Reuters
Damascus
has a recording of conversations between the American military and
Islamic State terrorists ahead of the US-led coalition airstrike that
hit Syrian troops near Deir ez-Zor on September 17, the speaker of
the People's Council of Syria said.
“The
Syrian Army intercepted the communications between the Americans and
Daesh [Arabic pejorative for Islamic State/IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL]
ahead of the attack on Deir ez-Zor," Hadiya
Khalaf Abbas said, as cited by Sputnik
Arabic.
Syrian
FM at UN: Bombing of Syrian troops no mistake, US is ISIS accomplice
Abbas
promised that details of the recording will be released by Damascus.
Syrian
troops encircled by Islamic State militants near the town of Deir
ez-Zor were bombed by US-led coalition warplanes on September 17.
Sixty-two
soldiers were killed and over 100 injured in the airstrike, which was
immediately followed by an offensive by jihadists on the positions of
government forces.
The
bombing was stopped only after the Russian military contacted the US
side several times, saying that they were attacking the wrong
targets.
Washington
acknowledged the fact of the airstrike against the Syrian troops and
even apologized for the mistake.
The
incident dealt a serious blow to the Syrian ceasefire deal, which
Moscow and Washington agreed earlier in September.
During
his speech at the UN General Assembly during the weekend, Syrian
Foreign Minister Walid Muallem also said that the bombing of Syrian
troops by the US-led coalition was a deliberate attack, not a mistake
as Washington claims.
"The
Syrian government puts all the responsibility for the aggression on
the US, as the facts show that it was a deliberate attack, but not a
mistake – even if America says the opposite,” Muallem
said, adding that the bombing “proves
that the US and its allies are accomplices of Islamic State and other
terror groups.”
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