(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-backed Kurdish forces took key district in Raqqa city after 48 hours of deadly bombing left more than 120 people killed, local activists said.
The Syrian Democratic Forces took full control of the neighborhood of al-Rashid east of the war-torn city. The kurdish-led alliance seized two thirds of Raqqa city reaching banks of Euphrates river.
Monitoring groups said at least 170 civilians have been killed in a week of heavy aerial bombing on the de facto capital of the Islamic State.
Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently said about 50 people were killed on Tuesday in Raqqa in the U.S. airstrikes amid deliberate blackout for daily death.
The local monitoring group that tracks war in Raqqa said the International coalition airstrikes have killed at least 946 people since the third phase of Raqqa offensive announced in June.
42 people, including 18 children and 12 women lost their lives in the U.S. airstrikes on Monday, the Britain-based the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Raqqa-based activist Ahmed Shalabi said Monday's airstrikes , in support of Kurdish-led forces, had destroyed large parts of al-Bado neighbourhood killing at least 40 civilians.
The coalition warplanes conducted more than 50 raids, Shalabi added where about 200,000 people still trapped in the city.
At least 21 worshipers were killed on Saturday when U.S. airstrikes struck a mosque at the Syrian-Iraqi border, local activists said.
The U.S. strikes hit the ISIS-held village of al-Jazza’ In the southern countryside of Hasaka city, two days since similar strikes killed 15 family members near the area, according to activists.
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