BEIRUT—Activists say seven members of the same family were killed in an airstrike by the U.S.-led international coalition against the Daesh group on the northern Syrian village of Arshaf. Recent advances by U.S.-backed Syrian rebels on areas in northern Syria held by Daesh, also known as the Islamic State, have put the extremist group under strain. The Local Coordination Committees activist network says 10 people in the village were killed in the strike. Arshaf lies just 8 kilometres from the contested town of Marea, north of the city of Aleppo. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based group that monitors the Syria conflict through local observers, says warplanes seen to cross into Syrian airspace from Turkey bombed the Daesh-held village, killing the seven family members, among them five women and a child.

Source: thestar May 21, 2016 11:45 UTC