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An airstrike against one of the last traffickers of the Islamic State group in Syria killed 54 people, more than half of whom are civilians, said Friday a war observer.
The US-led coalition fighting the jihadists or its allies were able to conduct air raids in the area and investigate the alleged civilian deaths.
The raid Thursday night against an ice factory near the village of Al-Soussa near the Iraqi border killed 28 civilians and According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights based in Britain
The raid in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor was not immediately carried out by an Iraqi aircraft or by the coalition, according to the controller. In a written statement, the alliance led by the United States said: "The coalition or our partner forces may have conducted strikes in the vicinity of Al-Soussa and Baghour Fukhani" [19659005] "We are pbading the report to our civilian victims Cell for further badessment of this allegation Iraqi fighter jets have recently conducted strikes against ISIS in eastern Syria, while planes of coalition support Kurdish fighters fighting jihadists.
IS fighters were Syrian and Iraqi, said Observatory.
The official SANA news agency reported the strike last Thursday, stating that more than 30 civilians had been killed and accusing the coalition of having carried out.
IS fighters swept Syria and Iraq in 2014
They have since lost most of this territory Several of them are still off the land, but they still have pockets of land in Syria, particularly in the vast desert of Badiya and Deir Ezzor
. Offensive at Deir Ezzor on either side of the Euphrates River that runs through the province.
Russian-backed forces repelled jihadists on the western side of the Euphrates, while US-backed Syrians Democratic Forces fought them in the East
Al-Soussa lies to the east of Euphrates, in a pocket of territory still held by jihadists.
ISF fighters have been expelled from most of Syria's urban centers but badysts say they have retained their ability to leap out of the desert
Last month, an incursion into the IS in the city of Albu Kamal in the west of the Euphrates made dozens of pro-regime fighters dead
. The jihadists were evacuated from their last bastion outside Damascus in May, many heading for the Badiya Desert, the Observatory said.
IS also present in Idlib province in the northwest and in the province of Daraa in the southwest.
The government and rebels announced last week a ceasefire agreement as the regime regains control of the entire province, but ISIS is excluded from this agreement .
The jihadists They occupied a corner of territory in Daraa, on the border with Jordan and the Golan Heights occupied by Israel.
From Wednesday to Thursday, they seized the nearby village of Heet of rebels who had agreed to hand over their heavy weapons to the regime.
A vehicle pbades in front of a billboard bearing the logo of the Islamic State group in the Syrian province of Deir Ezzor on September 24, 2017
Map of Syria that locates Al-Soussa.
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