The warplanes were believed to belong to the US-led coalition against Islamic State, the Britain-based war monitoring group said. The jets pounded a village southeast of Raqqa city, near the Euphrates River and along the road to Deir al-Zor province, the Observatory said. With air strikes and special ground forces from the US-led coalition, an alliance of Syrian militias has been waging an offensive on Raqqa, Islamic State's base in Syria. The US military has said it takes "extraordinary efforts" to avoid civilian deaths in its bombing campaign against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. The military's estimates of civilians killed by coalition air strikes are generally far lower than those of monitoring groups.

Source: bd News24 March 09, 2017 10:46 UTC