(Zaman Al Wasl)- Death toll of Russian air strikes hit Al Bukamal border town east Syria on Wednesday has risen to 50, Islamic State's news outlets said.
13 children and 4 women were among the victims of Russia's aerial campaign against the ISIS-held town of Al Bukamal town on the Iraqi border.
Russian warplanes had also carried out more than 30 raids on ISIS's de facto Syrian capital Raqqa on Wednesday, killing at least 18 people in second aerial attack in 24 hours, activists and monitoring group said.
On Tuesday, 23 people including 13 militants, were killed, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. ISIS seized Raqqa in January 2014, expelling various rebel groups that had seized it from the government the previous year.
Since then it has become the de facto Syrian capital of the territory controlled by the group, which it dubs an Islamic "caliphate".
The city has been targeted by Syrian regime airstrikes and raids launched by Russia since its air campaign began in late September.
A U.S.-led coalition fighting ISIS has also bombed the city in the past.
According to the Observatory, the first month of Russian strikes killed nearly 600 people, two-thirds of them fighters.
The rest -- some 185 -- were civilians, it says.
A U.S.-led coalition that has been bombing extremist targets in Syria since September 2014 has killed 3,649 people, according to the Observatory.
It says 226 of those, around six percent, have been civilians.
More than 250,000 people have been killed in Syria since the conflict began with anti-government protests in March 2011.
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