US-led coalition airstrikes kill 11 civilians near Syria’s Raqqah: SOHR

A monitoring group says nearly a dozen civilians have lost their lives when the US-led coalition purportedly fighting Daesh in Syria carried out airstrikes near the country’s Daesh-held northern city of al-Raqqah.

According to Press TV, the strike targeted Tishrin farmland, which lies approximately 20 kilometers west of the provincial capital city of al-Raqqah, on Friday, the Britain-based so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.

The observatory said nine people were killed and several others injured in the aerial attack, noting that the death toll could rise as some of those injured in the airstrike are in critical condition. There is a child among the deceased.

Additionally, a woman and her child were killed as US-led military aircraft struck an area in the city of al-Thawrah, also known as al-Tabqah and situated approximately 55 kilometers west of Raqqah.

The attack is not the first US-led airstrikes to result in civilian casualties.

At least eight civilians lost their lives on January 6, when coalition fighter jets pounded the village of Suwaydiyah al-Kabirah, which is situated approximately 55 kilometers west of Raqqah.

Nearly 20 civilians were killed in a US-led strike targeting al-Msheirfeh region north of Raqqah on December 8 last year. Several people also sustained injuries in the blitz. 

Moreover, the so-called anti-Daesh US-led coalition carried out an airstrike against a purported militant position near Raqqah on December 7, claiming the lives of seven civilians.

Syria writes to UN, Security Council against Turkish strikes

Meanwhile, Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates has strongly condemned Turkey’s repeated violations of the Damascus government’s sovereignty and its deadly aerial attacks against Syrian people.

The ministry, in two identical letters to the UN Secretary-General António Guterres and President of the UN Security Council Volodymyr Yelchenko, asked the council to shoulder its responsibilities concerning international peace and security, and put an end to the violations.

These attacks are part of the Turkish government’s aggression against Syria over the past nearly six years, which include providing various forms of military and logistic support to terrorist organizations and facilitating entry of foreign militants into Syria, the letters read.

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