Eighteen American-backed fighters have mistakenly been killed in an airstrike by the US-led coalition in Syria.
Those who died south of the city of Tabqa were members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), said the Pentagon.
The SDF is an alliance of Arab and Kurdish fighters who are battling Islamic State.
The US said its "partnered forces" had requested an airstrike after identifying what they said was an IS "fighting position".
But the target location was in fact where Syrian Democratic Forces were, rather than IS militants, and coalition aircraft had been given wrong coordinates.
The SDF, with the help of air and ground support from the US-led coalition, has surrounded the IS stronghold of Tabqa.
Several nations have lent their air power to the coalition to defeat the jihadist group.
It is not clear which air force was behind the deadly strike.
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