"The report is false. A review of the coalition's strike logs indicates no corroboration with the time, date, location, and munition of the alleged incident," Operation Inherent Resolve’s press office told Sputnik on Thursday.
On Wednesday, Syria regime state media reported that US-led coalition aircraft carried out strikes on a civilian district in the Syria's Der Ezzour province using white phosphorus munitions, killing three people and leaving five others wounded. According to the reports on Syrian TV and SANA news agency, the strike was carried out in Al-Suwar, a small town east of the city of Der Ezzour.
US media reported a few days before that the US-led coalition in Iraq is using white phosphorus munitions in its fight against ISIS. The Washington Post made an inquiry regarding an image, published by the US military-operated Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System, showing coalition troops with M825A1 white phosphorus projectiles.
Coalition spokesman Col. John Dorrian also confirmed the use of white phosphorus to the newspaper, stating that the munitions are used for screening, obscuring and marking, adding that white phosphorus is "used generally for the circumstances which I described."
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