Big blunders behind botched US-led strike in Syria in September
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A US military investigation has concluded that a series of "unintentional human errors" led to a coalition air strike on Sept. 17 that killed fighters aligned with the Syrian regime instead of the ISIS militants they were targeting.
The incident, which Moscow said killed more than 60 Syrian soldiers, sparked a controversy and prompted an emergency UN Security Council meeting as tensions between Russia and the United States spiked.
Brigadier General Richard Coe, who led the investigation, told reporters at the Pentagon via a conference call on Tuesday that the major errors ranged from a basic misidentification of targets to "group think" during intelligence development and even a communications blunder on a hotline with Russia.
