DAMASCUS, Jan 12 (NNN-SANA) – A war monitor revealed yesterday that, 600 people were killed between June and Oct, 2017, during the U.S.-led airstrikes, targeting positions of the Daesh group, in Syria’s northern province of Raqqa.
According to a report, published on the website of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the U.S.-led bombings in Raqqa, the former de facto capital of the Daesh, killed 600 people from 140 families, over the course of the four months.
Their bodies were found, when mass graves were uncovered, after the Daesh was defeated in Raqqa, according to the report.
The overall number of people killed by U.S.-led airstrikes is much higher, as evidenced by the 28 mass graves, housing more than 6,000 bodies, said the Britain-based observatory, adding, the majority of the victims were killed during U.S.-led airstrikes, targeting Daesh positions in Raqqa between 2014 and 2018, while the rest were killed by the Daesh, following its capture of Raqqa in 2014.– NNN-SANA
