U.S.-led airstrike on Syrian city kills more than 100; criticism of air campaign mounts
Source: LA Times
Waarplanes of the U.S.-led coalition pounded an eastern Syrian city Thursday and Friday, killing more than 100 family members of Islamic State jihadists, activists and a monitoring group said. The U.N. condemned the escalating airstrike campaign on the northeastern provinces of the country.
Two coalition airstrikes — on Thursday evening and early Friday morning — on the city of Mayadeen, which lies on a segment of the Euphrates River that straddles Iraq and Syria, killed 106 people, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group with a network of activists in Syria.
“In these two days alone, coalition airstrikes on the city of Mayadeen killed 47 children, and the rest of the victims … the vast majority were women.” Rami Abdul Rahman, head of the group, said in a phone interview Friday.
He said that those killed were family members of Islamic State members residing in the municipal building of Mayadeen.
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