SYRIA’S Foreign Ministry accused the United States of a “war crime” and “direct support to terrorism” on Thursday night over its bombing of government troops fighting Isis.

The US-led coalition bombed Syrian volunteer militia just east of the city of Deir Ezzor, where the army lifted a three-year Isis siege last year. The US claimed the Syrians had attacked their Kurdish YPG allies.

The Foreign Ministry condemned the “brutal massacre against Syrian popular forces which were confronting Daesh, which still maintains a presence under the protection of the coalition and its militias.”