{"id":21003,"date":"2018-11-04T00:22:50","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T00:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21003"},"modified":"2018-11-04T00:22:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T00:22:50","slug":"us-led-coalition-strikes-kill-14-civilians-in-east-syria-monitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21003","title":{"rendered":"US-led coalition strikes kill 14 civilians in east Syria: monitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1398716\/middle-east\" readability=\"50\">\n<p>\nBEIRUT: At least 14 civilians were killed Saturday in US-led coalition air strikes on Daesh\u2019s last holdout in eastern Syria, a monitor said.<br \/>\u201cFourteen civilians, including five children under the age of 18, were killed in the coalition air raids on the villages of Hajjin, Sousa and Al-Shaafa\u201d in eastern Deir Ezzor province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.<br \/>\u201cThe death toll is likely to rise due to the number of seriously wounded,\u201d Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.<br \/>At least 9 Daesh militants were killed in the raids, he added.<br \/>The coalition was not immediately available for comment.<br \/>Strikes on the area intensified following an attempted Daesh attack on a coalition base in the nearby village of Al-Bahra, the Britain-based monitor said.<br \/>Daesh overran large swathes of Syria and neighboring Iraq in 2014, proclaiming a \u201ccaliphate\u201d in land it controlled.<br \/>But the extremist group has since lost most of its territory to various offensives in both countries.<br \/>In Syria, the group has seen its presence reduced to parts of the vast Badia desert and a pocket in Deir Ezzor that contains Hajjin, Sousa and Al-Shaafa.<br \/>A Kurdish-Arab alliance backed by the coalition launched an offensive in September to wrest the Deir Ezzor pocket from Daesh.<br \/>But on Wednesday the alliance, the Syrian Democratic Forces, suspended its fight against the extremists after Turkish forces fired on the group\u2019s positions.<br \/>The coalition estimates that 2,000 Daesh fighters remain in the Hajjin pocket.<br \/>A total of more than 360,000 people have been killed since Syria\u2019s war erupted in 2011 with the brutal repression of anti-government protests.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT: At least 14 civilians were killed Saturday in US-led coalition air strikes on Daesh\u2019s last holdout in eastern Syria, a monitor said.\u201cFourteen civilians, including five children under the age of 18, were killed in the coalition air raids on the villages of Hajjin, Sousa and Al-Shaafa\u201d in eastern Deir Ezzor province, the Syrian Observatory&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":21004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}