(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 6 Iraqi refugees killed in raids carried out by the US army forces and Kurdish militias in the Khabur region north of Deir Ezzor province, local activists told Zaman al-Wasl Wednesday.
The raids stormed gathering for Iraqi refugees near the town of Bassira town at the bank of Khabur River, according to activist Mohamed al-Abdullah.
The U.S. Army has alway justified its raids by tracking Daesh (ISIS) fighters.
Meanwhile, the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said several jihadists and dozens of civilians quit the Islamic State group's last patch of territory in Syria Tuesday, and warned remaining fighters should surrender or face death.
Backed by air strikes by the US-led coalition, the Kurdish-led forces have trapped the jihadists in a segment of Baghhouz village that is less than half a square kilometre (a fifth of a square mile).
"Dozens of civilians and some fighters have handed themselves over", SDF spokesman Adnan Afrin told reporters at the nearby Al-Omar oil field.
The SDF have slowed down their offensive as they seek to evacuate civilians before a final push to defeat IS, which seized swathes of Syria and Iraq in 2014 and declared a cross-border caliphate.
Thousands of people -- mostly women and children related to IS members -- have streamed out of IS turf in recent weeks.
The United Nations earlier expressed concern over "the situation of some 200 families, including many women and children, who are reportedly trapped" in the IS holdout.
US President Donald Trump stunned allies in December when he announced all 2,000 American troops would be withdrawn from Syria as IS had been defeated.
That withdrawal plan is expected to be accelerated once the last IS redoubt falls.
Zaman Al Wasl
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