US-led coalition strikes kill 52 civilians in Syria
US-led air strikes targeting the Islamic State group killed at least 52 civilians in a village in northern Syria, a monitoring group said yesterday.
"Air strikes by the coalition early on Friday on the village of Birmahle in Aleppo province killed 52 civilians," said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. 7 of them are children, he added.
Prior to Friday's strikes, the coalition's raids had killed 66 civilians since it began attacking ISIS positions in Syria in September 2014.
According to the Britain-based Observatory, the air campaign has killed more than 2,000 people in total, including at least 1,922 ISIS fighters.
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