At
least 38 civilians have been killed in airstrikes conducted by the
US-led coalition, purportedly fighting the Daesh Takfiri terrorist
group, on the Syrian city of Raqqah in the past 48 hours, a
pro-opposition monitoring group says.
The
so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 17 people,
including five children and two women, had been killed and 30 others
injured in the airstrikes on the Old City neighborhood and other
areas in the center of Raqqah on Wednesday.
The
report said the latest casualties bring the number of people killed
in such airstrikes in the past 48 hours to 38.
According
to the Britain-based group, the death toll is expected to rise as
several of the wounded are in critical condition and a number of
people are still missing.
The
observatory said the aerial attacks also damaged infrastructure.
The
coalition has been conducting airstrikes against what are said to be
Daesh targets inside Syria since September 2014, without any
authorization from the Damascus government or a UN mandate.
The
Western military alliance has repeatedly been accused of targeting
and killing civilians. It has also been largely incapable of
fulfilling its declared aim of destroying Daesh.
In
July, the Pentagon admitted that the coalition airstrikes had killed
over 600 civilians in Syria and Iraq between August 2014 and May
2017. Independent monitors, however, have time and again challenged
such reports and revealed that the US-led campaign has caused far
more civilian casualties.
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