In a period lasting about three months, the allied U.S.-led coalition and YPG/PKK terrorists killed 165 civilians in one region of eastern Syria, a Syrian NGO said in a report on Saturday.
Working to expel Daesh from the area, coalition forces attacks around Deir ez-Zor killed 153 civilians, including 71 children and 29 women, and attacks by Kurdish YPG militia killed 12 civilians in the same period, including three children, said the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) in a report covering the 101 days from Sept. 11 to Dec. 20.
After Deir ez-Zor's Hajin district center was invaded by the YPG, some 6,000 civilians in the remaining towns and villages in the hands of Daesh were stranded under a siege by Bashar al-Assad regime forces and YPG militants, the report said.
The report added that Daesh uses civilians as human shields, leaving them exposed to random strikes by regime forces and YPG.
Daesh still maintains control of five towns in rural parts of the eastern Deir ez-Zor province.
With U.S. help, YPG controls east of Euphrates River and rural areas in western and eastern Deir ez-Zor. France also provides the terrorist group with artillery support.
Regime forces, meanwhile, maintain control of the western section of Deir ez-Zor.
As of today, YPG occupy some 28 percent of the total area of Syria.
Turkey has long objected to the U.S. allying itself with the terrorist YPG/PKK against Daesh, saying that using one terrorist group to fight another makes no sense.
Turkey has said it will soon launch a third counter-terrorist operation against the terrorist YPG/PKK in northern Syria, citing both the threat to Turkey and to local civilians.
Syria has been locked in a vicious civil war since early 2011, when the Bashar al-Assad regime cracked down on protesters with unexpected ferocity.
Anadolu Agency
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