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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