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Source: http://www.newsweek.com/us-wanted-attack-russians-syria-again-moscow-stepped-mattis-says-864666
Defense Secretary Mattis: U.S. Almost Attacked Russians in Syria Again
(Newsweek) Tom O'Connor - Defense Secretary James Mattis revealed Tuesday that U.S. forces nearly bombed Russians fighting on behalf of Syrian President Assad in the past week. But a call by Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to Russia's top military leader, Gen. Valery Gerasimov, via a deconfliction hotline, defused the situation. Last month, the U.S.-led coalition against ISIS killed a large number of Russian pro-Assad fighters in an airstrike in Syria.