DAMASCUS, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- Syria's Deputy Foreign Minister, Faisal Mekdad, on Sunday urged for condemnation of the "crimes" of the U.S.-led coalition in Syria, according to state news agency SANA.

Mekdad made the remarks during his meeting with a delegation from the United Nations Children's Fund in Damascus.

According to the report, Mekdad said the U.S.-led coalition is committing "heinous crimes" in northeastern Syria through targeting tens of women and children on daily basis, which violated international charters.

Mekdad also accused the U.S.-backed Kurdish militias in northern Syria of preventing thousands of children from going to schools for education, according to SANA.

The remarks came on the heels of the U.S.' operation in northeastern Syria that has been dragging on since Sept. 10.

On Friday, SANA said the intense U.S.-led airstrikes destroyed the only hospital in the town of Hajin in the eastern Deir al-Zour province and killed eight civilians.

The U.S.-led coalition has been targeting the last vestige of Islamic State (IS) territory on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River in the eastern countryside of Deir al-Zour as part of the support to the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militia.

The SDF, with the backing of U.S.-led airstrikes, launched a campaign to defeat the IS on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River since Sept. 10.

A total of 849 IS militants and 508 SDF fighters have since been killed, according to a report released by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on Saturday. Enditem

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