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Fresh US-led airstrikes leave dozen civilians in northeastern Syria
2018-06-13
[PRESSTV] A dozen civilians have bit the dust and several others sustained injuries when the US-led coalition purportedly fighting the ISIS Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
terrorist group carried out a string of Arclight airstrikes against Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah.

Local sources, requesting anonymity, said the airborne assaults targeted residential buildings in Tal Shayr, which is located in the southeastern part of the province, causing the casualties, Syria’s state-run television network reported.

The development came only a day after at least 18 Iraqi refugees were killed when a US-led airstrike hit a school in Khuweibra village of Hasakah province.

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 achieving its declared goal of destroying ISIS.

Syria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, in two separate letters addressed to United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
Secretary General Antonio Guterres and the rotating President of the UN Security Council Vasily Nebenzya on June 5, condemned the continuing attacks by the US-led coalition against innocent Syrians, and its assaults on the illusory sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity of the conflict-plagued Arab country.

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