US-led air strikes killed 553 in Syria in one month
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Air strikes by US-led forces have killed 553 people, including 32 civilians, during a month-long campaign in Syria against Islamic State militants, a Syrian monitoring group which tracks the violence said on Thursday.
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An image grab taken from a video released on October 21, 2014, by Aamaq News, a Youtube channel which posts videos from the areas under the Islamic State (IS) group's control, purportedly shows an IS militant displaying the content of a crate carrying grenades near the town of Kobane, on the Syria-Turkey border. A US military airdrop of weapons meant for Kurdish fighters fell into the hands of their jihadist foes near the Syrian battleground town of Kobane, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. [Xinhua photo] |
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the majority of the deaths, 464, were Islamic State fighters. Six of the civilians were children and five were women, the Observatory said.
It said 57 members of the al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front were also killed in the air strikes, which started a month ago. Strikes hit the provinces of Aleppo, Deir al-Zor, Idlib, Raqqa and al-Hassakah, it said.
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