War
Crimes
At least 56 civilians have lost
their lives in northern Syria due to air strikes by the US-led
coalition purportedly targeting Daesh terrorists operating in the
violence-wracked Middle Eastern country, says a UK-based monitoring
group.
The so-called Syrian Observatory
for Human Rights (SOHR) said 11 children were among the victims of
the coalition’s Tuesday air raids near the Syrian village of
al-Tukhar, situated close the Daesh-held city of Manbij near the
Turkish border.
SOHR director Rami Abdel Rahman
said the aerial assaults left dozens of civilians injured, including
“some in critical condition.” According to the monitoring group,
the civilians were hit as they were fleeing fighting in Tukhar.
On Monday, the observatory said 21
civilians had been killed in the coalition raids in the area, 15 of
them in a northern district of Manbij and another six in Tukhar.
Manbij, situated in Syria’s Aleppo Province, is a key point along
Daesh’s main supply line from the Turkish frontier to its Syrian
stronghold of Raqqah.
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