Global Coalition denies targeting Iraqi faction near Syrian border

The Global Coalition denied, on Saturday, any involvement in an attack on Iraqi armed group members near the Syrian border. In a statement, the Coalition said, “Reports indicating that US or Coalition forces conducted an airstrike on the Iraq-Syria border on Friday are inaccurate.” nn nn nn nn nn nn nn nn nn nn nn nn nn zz zz zz zz zz zz zz zz zz zz zz zz zz zz zz zz zz zz zz zz zz zz zz zz zz zz zz zz zz zz zz zz zz zz zz zz zz zz zz zz zz zz zz zz zz zz zz zz zz zz zz zz zz zz

The Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve statement confirmed, “No such operation took place.”

On Friday, “Kata’ib Sayyid al-Shuhada”, a prominent Iraqi armed faction, reported that one of its members was killed in an American airstrike targeting his vehicle during a reconnaissance patrol near the Iraq-Syria border.

Three Iran-aligned militants, including two Iraqis, killed in an airstrike on eastern Syria near the Iraqi border on Friday night, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on Saturday. The identity of the aircraft conducting the strike remains unclear.

The Observatory reported that the strike targeted a site in Deir ez-Zor, an area known for the presence of Iran-aligned groups extending from Mayadin to Al Bukamal at the Iraqi border.

The Observatory detailed, “A loud explosion heard following an airstrike by an unidentified aircraft on a site in a village in the Al Bukamal countryside,” just a few kilometers from the Iraqi border.

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Syria and Iraq is a significant stronghold for Iran and its allied groups in Syria, including Iraqi factions. The U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State on Tuesday denied responsibility for an attack near the Syrian border which killed dozens of members of an Iraqi Shi’ite militia and, that group said, several of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards.
A spokesman for the Iran-backed Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada militia said 36 of its fighters had killed in the attack on Monday and 75 others wounded and receiving treatment.
“We hold the American army responsible for this act,” the militia said in a statement late on Monday, noting that they targeted with smart rockets.
Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Tuesday that initial investigation showed that Islamic State launched the attack against the militia group.
“It seems that Daesh carried out a breach using artillery and car bombs,” Abadi said in a televised press conference in Baghdad.
The U.S.-led coalition, which is attacking Islamic State militants from the air in Syria and Iraq, said the allegations were “inaccurate” and denied conducting air attacks in that area at the time.
In a statement circulated by its supporters, Islamic State claimed it was responsible for the attack and said it had captured armored vehicles, weapons and ammunition. The Iraqi Defence Ministry declined to comment.

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