9 people killed by U.S.-led Coalition airstrikes as PYD kills 6 northeast Syria

Reporting by Mohamed Al Hussein: translation by Yusra Ahmed

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 9 people were killed on Sunday by air strikes of U.S.-led Coalition in a village northeast city of Hasaka, activists reported as 6 others were killed by Kurdish militant groups.

Activist Malaz Yusuf told Zaman al-Wasl that the International alliance against Islamic State (ISIS) had carried out more than 30 raids on Qamishli suburbs, killing 9 civilians and wounding dozens.

Also, 6 civilians, including 3 children, have been killed in Salima village by shelling of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), Yusuf said.

Salima village has witnessed severe fighting where PYD and Beshmerga forces backed by the Coalition's air strikes have tried to defeat the Islamic state in the village.

A shepherd was also killed during his way to sell his sheep by a PYD’s sniper.

The activist added that severe clashes between the Islamic State and PYD took place in Sunday’s early morning near Remilan oil wells.

The heavy movements of displacement to the Southern of Hasaka and Deir Ezzor fearing of vindictive acts by the PYD like what happened in many Syrian and Iraqi villages, as threat of killing men and abducting women reached to people.

Hasaka province in the northeastern corner of Syria is strategically important in the fight against Islamic State because it borders areas controlled by the group in Iraq.

PYD’s acts in villages of Ghadir, Tal Hamis and Altaya where they closed all entrances to these villages and humiliated their people with news of killing their men, have increased the displacing and civilians' running away.

The regime's forces and PYD with help of the US-led alliance's air strikes are planning to invade the village on Tal Hamis, the most important stronghold of the Islamic State. The regime forces gathered forces at the Northern Front, and PYD gathered forces at the Eastern front reaching to the Iraqi borders at the south.