task and destination permissions

Failing task(from Ubuntu host only)
  - name: copy project files
    synchronize:
      src: "{{item}}"
      dest: /root
    with_items:
      - ../../persistent-volume
      - ../../project
    tags: project_files

Target directory permissions:
drwx------.  3 root root   16 Sep 15  2017 .ansible
drwxr-xr-x.  2 root root   60 Sep 18  2017 .ansible_async
[root@localhost ~]# ls -lR ~/.ansible
/root/.ansible:
total 0
drwx------. 4 root root 102 May 25 09:55 tmp

/root/.ansible/tmp:
total 0
drwx------. 2 root root 19 Sep 15  2017 ansible-tmp-1505507921.77-227627801045524
drwx------. 2 root root 46 Sep 18  2017 ansible-tmp-1505750051.16-178530689114031

/root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1505507921.77-227627801045524:
total 88
-rwx------. 1 root root 88482 Sep 15  2017 yum.py

/root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1505750051.16-178530689114031:
total 72
-rwx------. 1 root root 10799 Sep 18  2017 async_wrapper.py
-rwx------. 1 root root 58356 Sep 18  2017 command.py