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Syria: SDF points finger at Russian jet bombers
Moscow denies attacks on US-backed fighters

US-BACKED forces in Syria accused Russia of bombing them yesterday.

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said its fighters were attacked by Russian jets and Syrian artillery across the Euphrates river from the eastern city of Deir Ezzor.

The SDF, mostly made up of Kurdish militia, said several of its men were killed or injured in the Conoco gas field, recently seized from Isis.

  • On Saturday a French soldier was killed in combat at an unspecified location in “the Middle East,” the coalition said.
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