US missile attack on sites belongs to the Syrian army in the Syrian desert, Damascus accuses the international coalition of bombing positions of the Syrian army with damages are limited to material
An official Syrian military source said that US coalition forces launched at around 8:00 pm on Sunday (December 2nd) several missiles towards some Syrian Army formation sites in area of Jabal Al Gharab, south of the town of Al Sukhna.
According to the Syrian source, no casualties were recorded and damages are limited to the material.
Meanwhile, Damascus accused the US-led coalition forces of launching missile strikes Sunday night on Syrian army positions in the center of the country, as the official Syrian news agency SANA quoted a military source as saying.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights website said that the coalition forces stationed at the base of Al Tanf area on the border with Iraq launched more than 14 rockets on a convoy of the Syrian forces while passing through the desert in the far eastern Homs countryside.
The Syrian forces are fighting against the Islamic state, which is spreading in positions east of the city of Homs in the vast desert.
“The convoy was stranded in the middle of the desert about 35 kilometers from the Al Tanf base”, said Rami Abdul Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.The United States uses the Al Tanf base to carry out operations against the Islamic state.
There are US and British forces are stationed in Al Tanf base, which used to train Syrian opposition fighters.
The region witnessed last year clashes between Syrian forces and those backed by the coalition.
