U.S.-led coalition airstrikes killed at least 50 civilians on Wednesday 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, activists 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.
Amaq, ISIS news agency, said 8 SDF fighters were killed in clashes in al-mahdi neighborhood on Tuesday.
The alliance of Kurd and Arab militants seemed confident of defeating ISIS after two months of Raqqa offensive, the third phase of SDF military operation in eastern Syria.
In central Homs province, ISIS militants attacked regime forces and their allies in the eastern countryside on Wednesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Heavy fighting raged around the mountainous Jabal al-Shomariya area in Homs province, and the government side was carrying out air strikes there, the British-based monitoring group said.
Pro-Damascus media outlets quoted a military source saying warplanes had hit targets in the eastern Hama countryside, which borders Jabal al-Shomariya to the north, Reuters reported.
Islamic State has been losing ground to government forces further east, close to its stronghold of Deir al-Zor province and al-Sukhna, the last town it holds in Homs province.
