(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led coalition airstrikes killed 15 family members, including 11 children, were escaping heavy aerial bombing in Raqqa province, local activists said Wednesday.
Two families, mostly women and children, from Zour Shammar village were the latest victim of indiscriminatory U.S.-led airstrikes.
The mounting death toll of civilians in eastern Syrian sparked speculation of a determine bombing without any effort to protect people who are fleeing the frontlines.
The U.S.-led warplanes conducted more than 70 raids in the last 48 hours, activists said
Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently, local monitoring group, said the International Coalition has used phosphorous bombs in hitting Raqqa province in support of Kurdish-led forces that struggle to expel ISIS from its de facto capital.
The death toll from the Coalition strikes reach a total of 500 people in the last three months, according to local monitoring groups. Most victims were family members.
The US-led air campaign against the Islamic State jihadist group in Syria began on September 23, 2014.
Syria's conflict that left more than half million people killed evolved from a bloody crackdown on protests in 2011 into to a devastating war that has drawn in world powers, including Russia and a US-led international coalition.
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