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U.S.-led airstrikes kill 18 civilians in northeastern Syria

DAMASCUS, June 11, 2018 (BSS/Xinhua) – The U.S.-led coalition killed 18
civilians, mostly Iraqi refugees, in airstrikes Monday on the al-Hasakah
province in northeastern Syria, according to state news agency SANA.

The airstrikes targeted the town of Khoeberah in the southern countryside
of al-Hasakah, said SANA, adding that women and children were among the
killed Iraqi refugees.

The attack came after 10 civilians, mostly women and children, were killed
last Tuesday in U.S.-led airstrikes on the town of Jaza’a in the southern
countryside of al-Shaddadah city in al-Hasakah.

SANA said the U.S.-led coalition is ramping up airstrikes on the southern
countryside of al-Hasakah to enable the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces
(SDF) to take control.

The United States and the SDF have been on an offensive against positions
of the Islamic State group in the southern countryside of al-Hasakah to
consolidate the U.S.-backed troops’ control in areas east of the Euphrates
River.

The Syrian government has slammed the killing of civilians by the U.S.-led
coalition, calling it an “illegitimate” coalition that should be disbanded.

BSS/XINHUA/FI/ 1925 hrs