Dozens of civilians were killed and wounded during Russian and the Global Coalition airstrikes on the cities and countryside of Deir Ez Zor, al-Raqqah, and al-Hasakah which are all areas excluded from the de-escalation of tension areas agreed upon between Russia, Turkey and Iran.
Local sources and activists said that warplanes targeted a house in al-Bazul neighborhood in al-Qouriya town in Deir Ez Zor’s countryside on Sunday evening where a displaced family from al-Raqqah were living. The air strike led to the death of 12 of these displaced people who were mostly women and children.
Five civilians, mostly women and children, were killed in a Russian airstrike targeting the al-Budeirbas neighborhood in Mo Hasan city at dawn on Sunday. The area targeted is close to the area of clashes between the Islamic State forces and the regime forces in the vicinity of Deir Ez Zor military airport.
The regime air force bombed areas in al-Hawaiqa and al-Rashidiya neighborhoods in Deir Ez Zor as well as the towns of al-Husseiniyah, al-Shula, Madan, Wadi al-Thardah, al-Sakhrat area, and al-Maabir close to the city of al-Maydin in Deir Ez Zor countryside.
In al-Raqqah, the Global Coalition killed three civilians by bombing their vehicle while they were transporting drinking water from the Euphrates River. Drinking water has stopped reaching the city’s neighborhoods after aerial bombardment damaged the city’s water network. The destruction comes amid continued clashes between the Islamic State forces and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) for control of al-Raqqah. The SDF took control of al-Qadisiyah neighborhood bringing the number of neighborhoods under its control to six in total on the eastern and western sides of the city.
The US-led Global Coalition against the Islamic State forces killed an entire family in an air strike on their home in the village of Umm Hafour in the countryside of al-Shadadi south of Hasaka, at iftar time on the final day of Ramadan.
Russia, Turkey and Iran agreed to establish four areas of decreased tension in Syria in early May in Astana. The areas of de-escalated tension are concentrated in Idlib province, parts of Aleppo, Latakia and Hama provinces, Homs’ northern countryside, the suburbs of Damascus and the eastern Ghouta , and parts of Daraa and al-Quneitra
