(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led coalition has intensified its aerial campaign on last Daesh-held pocket in Deir Ezzor province, activists said Friday.
A woman was killed and dozen wounded in airstrikes targeted displaced gathering near the village of Baghouz.
On Wednesday, eight civilians from the same family, 3 women and 5 children, were killed in US airstrikes in Baghouz.
The coalition admitted last month that it was responsible for the deaths of at least 1,139 civilians in Iraq and Syria since beginning airstrikes in August 2014.
Despite U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw troops from Syria, the coalition continues to conduct airstrikes in the region.
With support from a U.S.-led military coalition, the Syrian Democratic Forces are in the final stages of an assault launched more than four months ago against the militants’ last bastion.
The once-sprawling "caliphate" of Daesh has been reduced to a four-square-kilometer pocket of territory in eastern Syria, a senior Kurdish commander said Monday.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, more than 1,200 militants and around half as many SDF fighters have been killed since the start of the offensive on September 10.
The Britain-based activist group says more than 400 civilians have also perished, many of them killed by coalition airstrikes.
Syria's war has killed more than 560,000 people and displaced millions since it started in 2011 with the bloody repression of anti-government protests.
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