US FIGHTER planes attacked a Syrian Army post on Sunday evening, killing three Syrian soldiers and wounding 13 others in what has been condemned by the Syrian government as a ‘heinous act of aggression’.
The Syrian Foreign Ministry said that four coalition aircraft launched nine missiles at the Syrian Army post in Deir Ezzor. Since late September 2014, the US, along with its allies, has been conducting airstrikes purportedly against IS inside Syria without any authorisation from the Syrian government or a UN mandate.
The Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent letters to the UN Secretary General and the UN Security Council yesterday condemning the attack. The letter states: ‘Syria strongly condemns the heinous act of aggression by the US-led coalition that contradicts the UN Charter on goals and principles.
‘The aggression against a Syrian Army barracks acts as a barrier to forces deployed for the fight against terrorism and once again shows that the US coalition is not serious and insincere in the fight against terrorism.’
The airstrike also destroyed three armoured vehicles, four other military vehicles, two machine guns and an ammunition depot. Syria called on the Security Council to immediately take the urgent measures to prevent such aggression from occurring again.
The US-led bombing raids on Syria have killed more than 450 civilians, even though the US-led coalition has so far acknowledged just two non-combatant deaths. More than 5,700 air strikes have been launched by the US led coalition.
‘Airwars,’ a project by a team of independent journalists, published details of 52 strikes with what it believes are credible reports of at least ‘459 non-combatant deaths, including those of more than 100 children’.
• US experts are reconstructing and equipping a desolate airport in the far north-eastern corner of Syria to turn it into a military base. A number of US experts have entered the region to develop and prepare the runways with 2,500m length and 250m width to be used by fighter jets.
Abu Hajar airport which has not been used since 2010 is located in Tal al-Hajar region in the Eastern countryside of Hasaka.