Meanwhile in Syria

Last week Brig. Gen. Richard Coe, the lead US official on the investigating team, told reporters that US air strikes in Deir Ezzor on 17 September, which killed at least 62 - and possibly more than 100 - Syrian army troops, was the unintentional result of “human error”.

[...]

The summary report on an investigation into US and allied air strikes on Syrian government troops has revealed irregularities in decision-making consistent with a deliberate targeting of Syrian forces.

The report, released by US Central Command on 29 November, shows that senior US Air Force officers at the Combined Air Operations Center (CAOC) at al-Udeid Airbase in Qatar, who were responsible for the decision to carry out the September airstrike at Deir Ezzor:

• misled the Russians about where the US intended to strike so Russia could not warn that it was targeting Syrian troops
• ignored information and intelligence analysis warning that the positions to be struck were Syrian government rather than Islamic State
• shifted abruptly from a deliberate targeting process to an immediate strike in violation of normal Air Force procedures

  Middle East Eye

"Human error", all right.

Both Moscow and Damascus denounced the strikes as a deliberate move by the Obama administration to support the Islamic State group and cited the attacks as the reason for declaring an end to the ceasefire on 19 September.

What a surprise.

We will fight terrorism anywhere it occurs unless it occurs in support of a regime change we'd like to see, and then we'll back it.

In the following video, investigative journalist Gareth Porter discusses  his belief that the latest cease-fire drawn up between Russia and Turkey for action in Syria will be more successful than two previous agreements between the US and Russia, and briefly touches on the tenuous state of affairs between the US and Turkey, both NATO members.



...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.