Syria accuses US coalition of attacking army camp, Washington denies

Syria's government said the U.S.-led military coalition had carried out a deadly air strike on a Syrian army camp, but officials from the U.S-led alliance said the report was false. 

Syria said four coalition jets killed three soldiers and wounded 13 in the eastern Deir al-Zor province on Dec. 6 evening, calling it an act of aggression, the first time it has made such an accusation. 

Any such strike by U.S.-led coalition planes, which have been focusing their fire on the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants, would further complicate an increasingly regional conflict now nearly five years old. 

Monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported earlier that jets likely to be from the coalition hit part of the Saeqa military camp near the town of Ayyash in Deir al-Zor province, killing four Syrian army personnel. 

But Brett McGurk, U.S. President Barack Obama's envoy to the coalition, said on his Twitter account "Reports of coalition involvement are false." 

Colonel Steve Warren, a Baghdad-based spokesman for the U.S-led coalition, said the alliance had conducted four strikes in the Deir al-Zor province on Sunday, all against oil well heads. 

"Our strikes were approximately 55 kilometers southeast of Ayyash. We did not strike any vehicles or personnel targets. We have no indication any Syrian soldiers were near our strikes," he said. 

The U.S.-led coalition first launched air strikes against ISIL in Syria in September 2014, after beginning aerial operations against the group in neighbouring Iraq the previous month. 

Its strikes have regularly targeted Deir al-Zor province in eastern Syria, most of which is held by ISIL, including oilfields that are a source of income...