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    'Misdirected' Airstrike By U.S.-Led Coalition Kills 18 Allied Fighters In Syria

    The strike was requested by America's partners "who had identified the target location as an ISIS fighting position," U.S. Central Command said Thursday.
    by Bill Chappell Apr 13, 2017 1 minute
    Central Command says an errant coalition strike killed 18 fighters from the Syria Democratic Forces. A member of the U.S.-backed SDF, made up of an alliance of Arab and Kurdish fighters, inspect the Tabqa dam on March 27.

    An airstrike that was meant to target ISIS in Syria instead killed 18 Syrian Democratic Forces personnel because it was "misdirected," U.S. Central Command said Thursday.

    The strike Tuesday by an aircraft

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