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Tuesday, September 12, 2017
From the Liveblog of
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
Russian, US-led strikes said to kill 28 civilians in Syria
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleSeparate Russian and US-led coalition air strikes today killed 28 civilians in Syria’s eastern Deir Ezzor province, where rival offensives against the Islamic State group are under way, a monitor says.
The province lies along Syria’s border with Iraq and is seen as a strategic prize by both Russian-backed Syrian troops and an alliance of Arab and Kurdish forces supported by the US-led air coalition.
Deadly coalition raids strike the village of Al-Shahabat, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
“Coalition air strikes killed 12 members of a single family, among them five children, in a village on the eastern banks of the Euphrates River,” says Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman.
— AFP
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