The US-led coalition has said it cannot confirm whether it was behind an air strike which killed more than 50 people in a Syrian town controlled by Islamic State. The attack had targeted an ice factory east of Sousa a few miles from the border with Iraq on Thursday night, killing some 28 civilians and 26 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) fighters. The death toll could rise because dozens more people had been critically wounded, the UK-based monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Anti-Isil activists claimed the dead were Iraqi nationals who had been displaced by fighting. The Syrian foreign ministry called the attack a "massacre" and an act of aggression by the "illegal coalition", without providing evidence it was responsible. The civilian casualty toll was one of the highest in a single raid in operations against Isil since the offensive against the jihadists in Mosul, northern Iraq, ended last summer. Colonel Sean Ryan, a spokesman for the coalition, … [Read more...] about US-led coalition cannot confirm who was behind air strike in Syria which left at least 54 dead
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Air strike kills 28 civilians in IS-held part of Syria: monitor
An air strike has killed 28 civilians in one of the last holdouts of the Islamic State group in Syria's eastern province of Deir Ezzor, a monitor said on Friday. The raid late Thursday hit a "gathering of civilians" at an ice factory near the village of Al-Soussa near the Iraqi border, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. It was not immediately clear if the strike was carried out by an Iraqi plane or by one of the US-led coalition fighting IS, the monitor said. Iraqi warplanes have recently carried out strikes against IS in eastern Syria, while coalition aircraft have been supporting Kurdish-led fighters battling the jihadists. State news agency SANA reported the strike late Thursday, saying more than 30 civilians were killed and accusing the US-led coalition of carrying it out. The coalition was not immediately available for comment. IS fighters swept across Syria and Iraq in 2014, declaring a cross-border "caliphate" in areas they controlled. They have since … [Read more...] about Air strike kills 28 civilians in IS-held part of Syria: monitor
Air strike in eastern Syria kills 28
At least 28 civilians have been killed in an air strike in an area controlled by the Islamic State group in eastern Syria.State news agency SANA has blamed warplanes of the US-led coalition for the Thursday night attack that it said killed 30 and wounded dozens.The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the air strike hit an ice factory that dozens of families were using as a shelter near the village of Baghouz close to the Iraqi border.It said at least 28 civilians were killed.Iraqi warplanes as well as those of the US-led coalition have carried out attacks against areas held by IS in the past.IS still controls small pockets in eastern Syria. … [Read more...] about Air strike in eastern Syria kills 28
AFP: Air strike kills 28 civilians in Syria’s Deir Ezzor
Picture: AFP Damascus. An air strike has killed 28 civilians in one of the last holdouts of the Islamic State group in Syria's eastern province of Deir Ezzor, a war monitor said on Friday, AFP reported. It was not immediately clear if the raid that took place late on Thursday on a "gathering of civilians" near the village on Al-Soussa near the Iraqi border was carried out by an Iraqi plane or one of the US-led coalition fighting IS, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said. © 2018 All rights reserved. Citing Focus Information Agency is mandatory! … [Read more...] about AFP: Air strike kills 28 civilians in Syria’s Deir Ezzor
Syria regime advances in south as air strikes kill 15
At least eight battered rebel-held towns in southern Syria returned to regime control under Russian-brokered deals on Saturday as air strikes killed at least 15 civilians, a monitor said. Since June 19, backed by its ally Russia, the Damascus regime has carried out a deadly bombing campaign in southern Syria as it pushes to retake the strategic area bordering Jordan and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. As of Saturday, government forces controlled more than half of Daraa, up from just 30 percent at the start of the operation, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said. Eight towns in the province returned to regime control under Russia-brokered deals, the Observatory said. That came "after talks in each town between Russian generals as well as local notables and remaining rebels," Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman said. The so-called "reconciliation" deals are the latest in a string of such agreements across the country that have seen the government retake opposition-held … [Read more...] about Syria regime advances in south as air strikes kill 15