A Typhoon fighter jet dropped a 500-pound (226-kilo) bomb on Syrian forces who were fighting Takfiri terrorists near the al-Tanf base where British and US special forces train militants, the Sunday Times daily reported.
The bombing is the first since the British military took part in a series of airstrikes in Syria in April following an alleged chemical attack in Eastern Ghouta which the US and its allies blamed on Damascus.
According to the paper, the UK dropped the bomb last month because they thought Syrian troops were trying to approach the al-Tanf base where anti-government Maghawir al-Thowra militants are trained and commanded.
The US has set up the heavily-fortified base in the al-Tanf desert where the Syrian, Iraqi and Jordanian borders meet. Washington and its allies have marked a 34-mile (54-kilometer) zone in the area and warned Syrian forces against approaching it inside their own territory.
A prominent Russian military analyst has recently revealed that the United States is training militants in 19 military bases in Syria in pursuit of its military and political objectives in the war-torn country.
Vladimir Kozin, a military expert at Moscow State Institute of International Relations, stated that the weapons, ammunition, fuel and foodstuff needed in these centers are provided by 22 US military bases outside Syria.
The United States has in the past attacked government forces and their allies inside Syria on several occasions.
Reports on the alleged use of a chemical warfare agent in Syria’s Douma in Eastern Damascus on April 7 were circulated by a number of nongovernmental organizations, including the White Helmets. Officials from the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Opposing Parties in Syria stated on April 9 they had not found any traces of chemical weapons during an inspection in Douma. A day later, the OPCW took a decision to send experts to Syria for verifying the reports from the NGOs, and the mission arrived in Damascus on April 14. But, several hours prior to their arrival, the US, the UK and France delivered amassed missile strikes on Syria, using the reports on the incident as an apparent pretext. Syria’s air defense systems downed 71 out of 103 missiles.
The US and its allies have been bombing what they call Daesh positions inside Syria since September 2014 without any authorization from the Damascus government or a UN mandate. Damascus stressed that Washington and its Western and regional allies are aiding Takfiri terrorist groups.