US airstrikes on Syria kill 26 civilians, mostly women, children
Tehran (KNA) - The US-led coalition’s airstrikes on Dayr al-Zawr, eastern Syria, killed 26 civilians, including 14 children, on Friday morning, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
According to the war monitor, the civilians, including 14 children and nine women, were all members of Daesh families.
The airstrikes reportedly targeted a Daesh hideout in the town of Hajin, located along the Euphrates River, south of Dayr al-Zawr.
The coalition's raids earlier killed another seven civilians in the nearby village of al-Shaafa on Thursday, Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman.
Hajin's civilians were also targeted by the airstrikes of the so-called military coalition's fighter jets last Saturday, when 15 people, mostly women and children, were killed.
Late last month, Syrian Ambassador to the United Nations Bashar al-Ja'afari confirmed at a UN Security Council meeting that the US-led coalition had once again used white phosphorus bombs against Hajin.
Source: PressTV