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U.S.-led airstrikes kill family of 5 in Deir Ezzor


(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led coalition killed a family of five, including 3 children, in airstrikes targeted north of Deir Ezzor province in support of Kurdish-led fighters who press to expel ISIS from the de facto capital, local sources said Saturday.

The US-led strikes also pounded a prison near al-Shaddadi town; the second jail to be hit in a week.

US-led coalition air strikes on a jail run by ISIS in Mayadeen, 45 km (28 miles) southeast of Deir Ezzor, killed at least 57 people last Tuesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

The coalition airstrikes killed about 400 people in eastern Syrian last June, according to the Observatory.

On Wednesday, at least 50 civilians were killed when Russia`s warplanes pounded the eastern Deir Ezzor province with cluster bombs, local monitoring group.

Furat Post said three Russian warplanes had carried the deadly attack on al Dablan town, topping the death toll to 115 in one week of strikes on ISIS-held areas

The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces seek to take Markada town the ISIS last stronghold in Hasaka province

A new battlefront ISIS already fights in at the border with Iraq as the Iran-backed Popular Mobilization forces make advances in hte last few weeks.

In relevant development, Bashar al-Assad has appointed his most notorious aide as the head of security and military committee in Deir Ezzor.
    
M.General Rafiq Sehada is the former bodyguard of late President Hafez al-Assad and the man who brutall killed Rustum Ghazali, former de facto ruler of Lebanon and former head of the Political Department in Syria

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