Airstrikes by the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group killed 20 civilians in Syria’s eastern Deir Ezzor province yesterday, a monitor says.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the deaths came in two separate incidents on Monday.
The Britain-based monitor says a US strike on the Deir Ezzor town of Albu Kamal on Monday night killed 13 civilians, among them five children. The strike also killed three members of IS, which controls the town by the Syria-Iraq border, according to the Observatory.
Earlier on Monday, a US-led coalition strike killed seven civilians, including a child, in the village of Husseinyeh, the monitor says.
The Observatory also says 10 civilians, among them nine children, were killed in a suspected Russian airstrike on Tuesday on a town in the rebel-controlled province of Idlib.
— with AFP
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