(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 15 people, 6 Syrians and 9 Iraqi displaced, were killed Friday in the the U.S.-led coalition airstrikes on a mosque in eastern Deir ez-Zor province, according to local sources.
The attack followed Friday prayers in the Daesh-held town of Al-Susah, activist Taj al-Allow told Zaman al-Wasl.
Within the last two days alone, 43 civilians have been killed -- including two children -- by repeated coalition airstrikes, local sources say.
With U.S. and French support, Kurdish-led forces launched an offensive against Deir ez-Zor’s city of Hajin with a view to retaking it from Daesh.
The number of Daesh militants now in Hajin is estimated at some 1,000 out of an estimated 2,500 throughout the entire Deir ez-Zor province.
Syria has only just begun to emerge from a devastating conflict that began in 2011 when the Assad regime cracked down on demonstrators with unexpected ferocity.
Also in eastern Syria, the US-led International Coalition has set up new military base for French troops in Raqqa province, local monitoring group said Friday.
The French forces will be stationed north of the city center as the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces have been digging trenches around the base.
The SDF has been the main partner of the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State in Syria, helping drive the jihadists out of swathes of northern and eastern Syria last year.
The Assad's regime controls nearly two-thirds of Syria and is determined to reassert its authority over Kurdish-held territory, which forms the lion's share of the rest.
But Kurdish leaders and their supporters are desperate to salvage what they can of their painstakingly built institutions.
Syria's war has left more than 360,000 people dead and displaced millions since it broke out with the brutal repression of an initially peaceful uprising in 2011.
With Anadolu Agency
Zaman Al Wasl
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