DHAKA: At least ten civilians have lost their lives and dozens sustained injuries in a string of airstrikes led by United States against ISIS in Syria’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr, reports PressTV.

Local sources told Syria’s official news agency SANA that the aerial attacks targeted the village of Tayibe in the eastern part of the province located 450 kilometers northeast of the capital Damascus on Saturday (July 29) killing at least ten people and destroying the civilian infrastructure there.

The sources added that seven of the victims were members of a same family noting that five children were among the dead.

The airstrike came only two days after at least 18 people were killed and another 20 others wounded after US-led military aircraft bombarded the same Syrian village.

On July 26 Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that at least 29 people including eight children had been killed in a US-led strike against the ISIS-held northern Syrian city of Raqqah.

Tens of civilians were also killed or injured on July 24 when US-led airstrikes targeted al-Fansh crossroads in the city of Mayadin.

The US-led coalition has been conducting airstrikes against what are said to be ISIS targets inside Syria since September 2014 without any authorization from the Damascus government or a UN mandate.

The military alliance has repeatedly been accused of targeting and killing civilians. It has also been largely incapable of fulfilling its declared aim of destroying ISIS.

Syria has been fighting different foreign-sponsored militant and terrorist groups since March 2011. UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura estimated last August that more than 400،000 people had been killed in the crisis until then.

BDST: 1003 HRS, JUL 30, 2017
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