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News ID: 41897
Publish Date : 18 July 2017 - 21:30

U.S. Airstrikes Kill Several Syrian Civilians




DAMASCUS (Dispatches) – Several civilians have lost their lives when the U.S.-led coalition purportedly fighting the Daesh terrorist group carried out a number of aerial attacks in Syria's troubled eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr.
Informed sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the airstrikes targeted Kashkieh village on Tuesday, Syria’s official news agency SANA reported.
Nearly a dozen civilians were killed on July 13, when U.S.-led military aircraft targeted al-Diriyah neighborhood of the terrorist-held northern city of Raqqah. Seven of the victims were members of one family.
The U.S.-led 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.
The city of Raqqah, which lies on the northern bank of the Euphrates River, was overrun by Daesh terrorists in March 2013, and was proclaimed the center for most of the terrorists’ administrative and control tasks the next year.
Meanwhile, the Syrian army has regained control of an oilfield in Raqqah after killing all of its occupying Daesh terrorists as part of their operations to fully liberate the country from extremism.
According a military source on Monday, the al-Deilaa oilfield, located in the province’s southwestern countryside, was liberated following heavy clashes with the Takfiri terrorists.
The source added that three car bombs were also neutralized during the operations.
Syrian forces also successfully destroyed a 33-meter long Daesh tunnel complex in Dayr al-Zawr’s al-Jabieleh neighborhood that the terrorists were using as a hideout.
The four-floor tunnel system was destroyed after the Syrian air force carried out several airstrikes against the terrorists in the province.  

Lebanon to Join In

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri has says the army would launch an operation against terrorists in an area along the Syrian border.
Addressing the parliament on Tuesday, Hariri said that the planned operation in the northeastern area of Juroud Arsal has been carefully studied, noting that the government has given the army the "freedom" to take action.
Hariri, however, said "there is no coordination between the Lebanese and Syrian armies.”
A security source said the Lebanese army has enhanced its deployment in the Arsal area over past 24 hours.
Nearly 3,000 terrorists, two-third of which are from Daesh and al-Nusra terrorist groups, have been using the barren area in the mountains between Syria and Lebanon as a base to organize attacks inside Syria.
Recently, there were speculations that Hezbollah resistance movement and the Syrian military are preparing to mount a major operation against the terrorists on the Syrian side of the border.
Earlier in July, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah gave an ultimatum to the terrorists along the border near Arsal to reach agreement with Syrian officials, warning that it was "high time to end the threat of militant groups in Arsal.”
In 2014, the Arsal area was the scene of a major spillover of the Syrian conflicts into Lebanon, when the terrorists managed to overrun the town for a brief period.