U.S.-led
coalition airstrikes killed 15 family members were escaping heavy aerial
bombing in Raqqa province, local activists said Wednesday.
Two
families, mostly women and children, from Zour Shammar village were the
latest victim of indiscriminatory U.S.-led airstrikes. The mounting
death toll of civilians in eastern Syrian sparked speculation of a
determine bombing without any effort to protect people who are fleeing
the frontlines.
Raqqa
Is Being Slaughtered Silently, local monitoring group, said the
International Coalition has used phosphorous bombs in hitting Raqqa
province in support of Kurdish-led forces that struggle to expel ISIS
from its de facto capital.
The
death toll from the Coalition strikes reach a total of 500 people in
the last three months, according to local monitoring groups. Most
victims were family members.
The US-led air campaign against the Islamic State jihadist group in Syria began on September 23, 2014.
Syria's
conflict that left more than half million people killed evolved from a
bloody crackdown on protests in 2011 into to a devastating war that has
drawn in world powers, including Russia and a US-led international
coalition.