Airstrikes kill 12 civilians in IS Syria holdout
Airstrikes kill 12 civilians in IS Syria holdout
Bombing of one of the last villages still held by the Islamic State group in eastern Syria has killed 12 civilians, including four children, monitors have reported.
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The coalition admitted on Thursday to "unintentionally" killing at least 817 civilians [Getty]
Airstrikes on one of the last villages still held by the Islamic State group in eastern Syria has killed 12 civilians, including four children, a monitor said on Monday.
The strikes were carried out late on Sunday on the village of Susa in Deir az-Zour province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
"Twelve civilians from a same family, including four children, were killed," Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.
The UK-based monitoring organisation, which has a broad network of sources on the ground, said the strikes were likely conducted by the US-led coalition that launched air raids against IS in Syria and Iraq in 2014.
There was no immediate comment from the coalition.
The Islamic State group has lost nearly all the territory it once held in Iraq and Syria and is clinging to a scattering of small villages and pockets of land in the border area.
The coalition admitted on Thursday to "unintentionally" killing at least 817 civilians since it started its aerial campaign against IS.
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