Coe stopped short of apologizing to the Syrian government, saying such a statement was beyond the purview of his six-week investigation. Due to the lack of observable insignia, Centcom would not say definitively that it had killed Syrian soldiers. “We made an unintentional, regrettable error, based on several factors in the targeting process,” Coe told reporters on Tuesday, who said he found “no intent to target Syrian [government] forces”. An initial report on the incident by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights suggested that 83 people had been killed. In that conversation, the Russians informed their US counterparts that the targets of the strike were probably “part of the Syrian military”.

Source: The Guardian November 29, 2016 17:44 UTC