BEIRUT — A misdirected airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition earlier this week killed 18 allied fighters battling the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in northern Syria, the U.S. military said Thursday. The SDF acknowledged the strike, saying a number of its fighters were killed and wounded. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 25 SDF fighters were killed in the last two days of battle. The government says Syrian warplanes struck an al-Qaida arms depot that contained chemical weapons. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has a standing fact-finding mission on Syria to investigate alleged chemical weapons attacks, but does not apportion blame.

Source: National Post April 13, 2017 21:56 UTC