Russia's airstrikes killed at least 14 civilians, mostly family members, in eastern Deir Ezzor province, local monitoring group saidon Thursday.
The strikes of Bashar Assad’s key ally struck a school sheltering displaced people in al-Tabanni village in the western countryside, Furat Post said. 12 of 14 victims were from the same family.
More than 850 people killed in the last few months by Russia, regime and the U.S.-led Coalition in eastern Syria as fight intensifies to expel the Islamic State from its strongholds.
On Wednesday, U.S.-led airstrikes killed at least 50 civilians in Raqqa city, half of which is still held by ISIS, activists and local monitoring group said.
Most of the casualties fell in Albusrarya neighborhood after deadly aerial bombing by the U.S.-led coalition in supports of Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces who captured half of the de facto capital of the Islamic State, activist Firas Allawi told Zaman al-Wasl.
At least 280 civilians killed by the U.S airstrikes in July amid media blackout for the daily killing of residents of Raqqa who find themselves trapped in the city with no humanitarian corridors, according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights.
