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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
U.S.-Led Coalition Strikes Kill 26 Civilians in East Syria
2018-11-11
[An Nahar] U.S.-led coalition air strikes killed 26 civilians including 14 children Friday in a holdout of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group in eastern Syria, a Britannia-based war monitor said.

"Twenty-six IS family members including 14 children and 9 women were killed in coalition air strikes on Friday morning on the town of Hajin," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

On Thursday, coalition raids killed another seven civilians in the nearby village of al-Shaafa, Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said.

Both Hajin and al-Shaafa are in a last pocket under IS control in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor near the border with Iraq.

A coalition front man did not immediately reply for a request for comment.

The coalition has been backing a Kurdish-Arab alliance fighting the jihadists in the area.

IS overran large swathes of Syria and neighboring Iraq in 2014, proclaiming a "caliphate" in land it controlled.

But the jihadist group has since lost most of it to various offensives in both countries.

In Syria, the group has seen its presence reduced to parts of the vast Badia desert and the pocket in Deir Ezzor.

Posted by:Fred

#4  IS already executed and ate them so there weren't any.
Posted by: gorb   2018-11-11 21:57  

#3  What was the kitten, puppy and fluffy bunny count? Speak up!
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2018-11-11 18:29  

#2  Never bring a family to an airstrike.
Posted by: Slating Gluting8749   2018-11-11 09:56  

#1  So, 26 ISIS members, camp followers, and human shields were snuffed. Cry me an Islamic river
Posted by: Frank G   2018-11-11 06:52  

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