U.S.-led coalition air strikes have killed 15 civilians early Monday in eastern countryside of Raqqa province in support for allied Kurdish militias, local monitoring group said.
Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently said the strikes had targeted the town of Kdairan east of Raqaa. Three more people were also killed on Sunday by the Coalition airstrikes.
Meanwhile, the US-led Syrian Democratic Forces SDF keep pressing advances in Raqqa province, taking most of the eastern and western countryside from ISIS.
The SDF fighters have seized 350 square km (135 square miles) in the past week, tightening "their noose" on Islamic State in an advance to isolate its base of operations at Raqqa.
Some 3,000 to 4,000 Islamic State fighters are thought to be holed up in Raqqa city where they continue to erect defenses against the anticipated assault, drawing coalition air strikes to stop them, Colonel Ryan Dillon, a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition, told Reuters in a phone interview from Baghdad, Reuters reported.
The alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters took two villages of Salhabiya and Sarhabiya Sharqi from the Islamic State east of Raqaa city after heavy clashes with the radical group, activists said.
Just two villages have been left under ISIS control east of al-Balikh River. Its fall means all eastern countryside to be under the Kurdish-led alliance, such a achievement paving the road Raqqa capture, the de facto capital of the Islamic State group
In Hasaka province, The SDF clashed with ISIS near al-Shaddadi town, forcing hundreds of families to flee the battleground.
The ongoing fight is over Markada town, the radical group's last footstep in the Kurdish-dominated province, local activists said.
Both warring parties said they had killed and wounded dozen.
In new death tool, 5 people, including two children were died when a sandstorm trucked Hasaka two days ago
