U.S.-led coalition struck pro-Assad forces in At-Tanf - coalition spokesman
WASHINGTON/BAGHDAD. June 8 (Interfax) - The United States-led coalition assesses the forces upon which a strike was carried out on June 6 as Syrian President Bashar "al-Assad regime forces", U.S.-led coalition spokesman Ryan Dillon said.
"We assessed that there were pro-regime forces who went inside the de-confliction zone, so, yes, Assad regime forces," Dillon told Interfax in an interview via Skype from Baghdad when asked about the exact composition of the pro-government forces upon which the coalition had delivered the strike.
The U.S.-led coalition said earlier that it had carried out strikes on pro-government forces in the south of Syria.
"[On June 6] the coalition destroyed additional pro-Syrian regime forces that advanced inside the well-established de-confliction zone in southern Syria," the coalition said in a statement on Tuesday.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, for his part, said on Wednesday that he saw the U.S.-led coalition's strike on pro-government forces in southern Syria as an act of aggression violating Syria's sovereignty and territorial integrity.