Syria Misfire; Trump’s Stump; MS Blockbuster?: Saturday Wrap
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Here are highlights of Saturday’s top breaking stories from around the world:
The U.S.-led coalition mistakenly struck a Syrian government military base, the first such attack in that nation’s civil war. The raid killed at least 62 Syrian soldiers and made the tenuous cease-fire agreement between Russia and the U.S. even more so. The Russians called an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council and went so far as to insinuate that the U.S. is so desperate to get rid of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that it’s backing Islamic State. U.S. Central Command said it would never intentionally target Syrian government forces, and the White House expressed “regret.”