US-led coalition kills 9 civilians in Syria

Airstrikes by the US-led coalition purportedly targeting the Takfiri terrorist group of Daesh in Syria have killed nine civilians in a countryside in the northwestern city of Aleppo.

The fatalities were caused on Sunday in the east of the town of Mare’, located some 25 kilometers north of Aleppo, Syria’s War Media reported.

The outlet, meanwhile, reported that the Syrian army had wrested control of al-Kandi Hospital in the south of the Handarat refugee camp — also located in Aleppo’s northern suburbs — from foreign-backed terrorists, killing an unspecified number of them in the process.

According to the report, the army has also targeted armed militants in southern Aleppo by carrying out mortar and rocket offensives against them.

A US- and Russia-brokered ceasefire in Syria ended last month. It had ushered in several days of relative calm. However, later through the ceasefire, violence began to creep back when a US-led airstrike killed more than 80 Syrian soldiers, who had been fighting the Takfiri terrorists in the eastern parts of the country.

As per the ground realities, Damascus says Washington deliberately targeted the Syrian soldiers.

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