Deadly air raid on Abu Kamal reported just hours
after deaths of 12 women blamed on coalition
strike in nearby Raqqa.
An air raid has killed 23 civilians in a Syrian town on the
border with Iraq held by the Islamic State of Iraq and the
Levant (ISIL), according to a monitoring network.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Right (SOHR) said Monday's deaths in Abu Kamal were caused by
an earlier morning air strikes by jets belonging to the
US-led coalition fighting ISIL in Iraq and Syria.
"They hit a residential area at 3am while people were
sleeping, causing the high toll," he said.
ISIL, also known as ISIS, was using apartments in the
targeted area as local headquarters, he said.
The coalition, in an emailed response to the Associated
Press news agency, said it did not conduct air strikes
on Abu Kamal on Monday.
In February the Iraqi air force, which is battling ISIL across
the border in Mosul, carried out air raids in Abu Kamal and
another nearby border town.
Monday's deaths in Abu Kamal followed those of 12
women the previous day in a raid on Akayrshi, a village in the east of Syria's Raqqa province.
Referring to the Akayrsh incident, SOHR said the women
died when the US-led coalition struck vehicles carrying farm
workers home from fields in the afternoon.
The attack wounded 12 other women, local sources
inside Raqqa province told German news agency DPA.
They said the raid targeted a car in which the workers
were returning from cotton fields.
Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently, an activist group
opposed to both ISIL and the Syrian government of
President Bashar al-Assad, confirmed the news of the women's deaths in a Facebook post.
It said at least three coalition air strikes hit civilian cars
over the weekend.
Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently also said via Twitter
that the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) had taken control
of several villages as part of an ongoing, multi-pronged offensive on Raqqa.
The coalition said that it did conduct strikes near the
western edge of Akayrshi on Sunday and that it would assess the reports.
On Friday, the SDF announced it would soon begin
a final attack to capture the province.
The announcement followed US President Donald Trump's
decision on Monday to approve direct arms shipments to the
SDF's main fighting elements - the Kurdish People's
Protection Units (YPG) - to "ensure a clear victory" over ISIL.
The war on Raqqa has already seen the YPG capture large
expanses of the surrounding province with help from the US-
led coalition bombing ISIL in Iraq and Syria.
This week, following months of fighting, the SDF seized
the strategic town of Tabqa, to the west of Raqqa, and a major hydroelectric dam nearby.
Tabqa lies on the banks of the Euphrates River, about
55km west of Raqqa, the province's main city which has at least 300,000 residents.
Tabqa was taken by ISIL in August 2014, following its
capture of Raqqa in early 2014.
The battle for Tabqa was marked by fears that the dam
would be severely damaged and collapse, leading to
massive flooding downstream.
The SDF said in a statement that Tabqa would be turned
over to a civilian council once fully secured.
It also said the authority that oversees the Tabqa dam
would remain "a national Syrian institution that will serve all the regions of Syria without exception".
Trump's decision to arm the YPG revived a dispute with
Turkey, with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan calling for an
"immediate" reversal.
Turkey views the YPG as the Syrian extension of the
outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has fought the state in the southeast of Turkey since 1984 and is considered a "terrorist group" by the US and the EU.
after deaths of 12 women blamed on coalition
strike in nearby Raqqa.
An air raid has killed 23 civilians in a Syrian town on the
border with Iraq held by the Islamic State of Iraq and the
Levant (ISIL), according to a monitoring network.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Right (SOHR) said Monday's deaths in Abu Kamal were caused by
an earlier morning air strikes by jets belonging to the
US-led coalition fighting ISIL in Iraq and Syria.
"They hit a residential area at 3am while people were
sleeping, causing the high toll," he said.
ISIL, also known as ISIS, was using apartments in the
targeted area as local headquarters, he said.
Press news agency, said it did not conduct air strikes
on Abu Kamal on Monday.
In February the Iraqi air force, which is battling ISIL across
the border in Mosul, carried out air raids in Abu Kamal and
another nearby border town.
Monday's deaths in Abu Kamal followed those of 12
women the previous day in a raid on Akayrshi, a village in the east of Syria's Raqqa province.
Referring to the Akayrsh incident, SOHR said the women
died when the US-led coalition struck vehicles carrying farm
workers home from fields in the afternoon.
The attack wounded 12 other women, local sources
inside Raqqa province told German news agency DPA.
They said the raid targeted a car in which the workers
were returning from cotton fields.
Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently, an activist group
opposed to both ISIL and the Syrian government of
President Bashar al-Assad, confirmed the news of the women's deaths in a Facebook post.
It said at least three coalition air strikes hit civilian cars
over the weekend.
Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently also said via Twitter
that the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) had taken control
of several villages as part of an ongoing, multi-pronged offensive on Raqqa.
The coalition said that it did conduct strikes near the
western edge of Akayrshi on Sunday and that it would assess the reports.
On Friday, the SDF announced it would soon begin
a final attack to capture the province.
The announcement followed US President Donald Trump's
decision on Monday to approve direct arms shipments to the
SDF's main fighting elements - the Kurdish People's
Protection Units (YPG) - to "ensure a clear victory" over ISIL.
The war on Raqqa has already seen the YPG capture large
expanses of the surrounding province with help from the US-
led coalition bombing ISIL in Iraq and Syria.
This week, following months of fighting, the SDF seized
the strategic town of Tabqa, to the west of Raqqa, and a major hydroelectric dam nearby.
Tabqa lies on the banks of the Euphrates River, about
55km west of Raqqa, the province's main city which has at least 300,000 residents.
Tabqa was taken by ISIL in August 2014, following its
capture of Raqqa in early 2014.
The battle for Tabqa was marked by fears that the dam
would be severely damaged and collapse, leading to
massive flooding downstream.
The SDF said in a statement that Tabqa would be turned
over to a civilian council once fully secured.
It also said the authority that oversees the Tabqa dam
would remain "a national Syrian institution that will serve all the regions of Syria without exception".
Trump's decision to arm the YPG revived a dispute with
Turkey, with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan calling for an
"immediate" reversal.
Turkey views the YPG as the Syrian extension of the
outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has fought the state in the southeast of Turkey since 1984 and is considered a "terrorist group" by the US and the EU.
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