US-led strikes kill 78 civilians in Syria’s Raqqah
At least 481 civilians were killed in Raqqah last month
By Levent Tok
ISTANBUL
At least 78 civilians were killed in U.S.-led coalition airstrikes and Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) shelling in Daesh-held Raqqah province in northern Syria on Monday, according to a monitoring group.
The attacks targeted several neighborhoods in the province over past 24 hours, the activist-run group Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS) said on Twitter.
SDF
In early June, the U.S.-led coalition launched a military campaign aimed at retaking Raqqah, the capital of Daesh’s self-proclaimed “caliphate”.
At least 481 civilians were killed in Raqqah in July, according to RBSS.
Last month, the Syrian Network for Human Rights documented the death of 1,400 civilians, including 308 children and 203 women, in Raqqah in the past eight months.
Syria has been locked in a vicious civil war since early
Since then, hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and more than 10 million displaced, according to UN officials. Assad regime officials, however, put the conflict’s total death toll much lower.
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