3,000 people killed in September in Syria: Report

More than 3,000 people, including nearly 1,000 civilians, have been killed during the past month of foreign-sponsored militancy in Syria, making September the deadliest so far in the year, a report says.

According to Press TV quoting a report published by the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on Sunday, 955 civilians, including 207 children, have lost their lives largely by militancy or bombardment conducted by warplanes of the US-led military coalition since the beginning of September.

The so-called coalition of 68 countries has been carrying out airstrikes against what are said to be targets belonging to the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group inside the Arab country since September 2014 without any authorization, whatsoever, from the Damascus government or a UN mandate. The military alliance has repeatedly been accused of targeting and killing civilians. It has also been largely incapable of fulfilling its declared aim of destroying Daesh.

Earlier this year, the observatory said in a report that a total of 42,234 documented airstrikes in the country had resulted in a minimum estimate of some 7,000 civilian deaths by the US-led coalition between 2014 and 2017.

The UK-based monitoring group said in its Sunday report that the toll also included 790 government troops and popular defense groups, 738 terrorists from Daesh and the Takfiri Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham groups, and 550 members of the foreign-backed militants and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a US-backed group of Kurdish and Arab forces.

The report added that the number of people killed in September was higher due to increased fighting and “intensified” aerial aggression of the US-led coalition in the north and east of Syria.

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