{"id":24773,"date":"2018-12-08T13:23:21","date_gmt":"2018-12-08T13:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24773"},"modified":"2018-12-08T13:23:21","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T13:23:21","slug":"us-led-coalition-strikes-kill-9-civilians-in-east-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24773","title":{"rendered":"US-led coalition strikes kill 9 civilians in east Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1417581\/middle-east\" readability=\"52\">\n<p>\nBEIRUT: Air strikes by a US-led coalition battling the Daesh group in east Syria killed nine civilians on Friday, a monitor said.<br \/>The Kurdish-Arab Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), backed by coalition airpower, has been fighting to oust Daesh from the pocket in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor since September.<br \/>\u201cAir raids and artillery fire by the international coalition and the SDF are going on against neighborhoods of the town of Hajjin,\u201d the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.<br \/>The air strikes \u201ckilled nine civilians, including six children, and two IS jihadists,\u201d the Britain-based monitor said.<br \/>The coalition did not immediately comment on the alleged fatalities but has repeatedly said it does its utmost to avoid civilian casualties.<br \/>The SDF broke into the key Daesh holdout of Hajjin on Thursday after months of fighting that has seen the militants launch vicious counter-attacks.<br \/>\u201cThe Syrian Democratic Forces have advanced into more territory once held by Daesh and thwarted their multiple counter offensives,\u201d US-led coalition spokesman Sean Ryan said Friday.<br \/>He said Daesh losses had been \u201cvery high\u201d and that intelligence reported jihadists had tried to flee across the border to Iraq but were prevented by Iraqi forces.<br \/>In almost three months of battle, more than 820 militants and more than 480 US-backed fighters have been killed, the Observatory says.<br \/>More than 300 civilians have been killed in that period, it says, though the coalition insists it does not target non-combatants.<br \/>Daesh overran large parts of Syria and neighboring Iraq in 2014, declaring a \u201ccaliphate\u201d across territories it controlled.<br \/>But various offensives in both countries have routed the militants from most of that land, crushing their dreams of statehood.<br \/>In Syria, the militants retain a presence in the vast Badia desert that stretches to the Iraqi border, as well as the pocket under attack around Hajjin.<br \/>Syria\u2019s war has killed 360,000 people and displaced millions since starting in 2011 with the brutal repression of anti-regime protests.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT: Air strikes by a US-led coalition battling the Daesh group in east Syria killed nine civilians on Friday, a monitor said.The Kurdish-Arab Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), backed by coalition airpower, has been fighting to oust Daesh from the pocket in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor since September.\u201cAir raids and artillery fire by the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":24774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24773","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\/24773","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=24773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}