At least 300 civilians have been killed, and 160,000 displaced amid the intensified airstrikes by the US -led anti-Daesh coalition against Syria's northern city of Raqqah, a United Nations commission said Wednesday, APA reports quoting Anadolu Agency.
Tens of thousands of refugees also have descended on Mayadeen, driven from homes in Iraq and Syria by fighting. United States forces on the ground in Syria, who mainly have been calling in targets for air support, have had their operations disrupted as they have had to relocate to avoid the bombings from the drones.
Since President Donald Trump took office, the US -led coalition has killed more civilians in Syria and Iraq than the Russians have killed in Syria, according to Airwars. 160,000 people have fled the city as the Syrian Democratic Forces attack the north, west and east of Raqqa.
The U.S. military refused to comment on specific allegations after last week's attack in Raqqa but said it uses white phosphorous rounds "in accordance with the law of armed conflict.in a way that fully considers the possible incidental effects on civilians and civilian structures".
According to Colonel Scrocca, the only way to save the people of Raqqa is to liberate them from ISIS.
Mahmoud said the coalition-backed forces had taken full control of Raqqa's eastern a-Sinaa industrial district on Wednesday. It said one of those killed was an activist with the group.
US troops on the ground in Raqqa, Syria, are operating with fewer resources and have a limited ability to defend against the Islamic State drones. "It will be the last castle for the group, and they want it as a capital so the fighters will defend it to death". The exodus puts them in the line of fire at a time the USA has been criticized for airstrikes leading to heavy civilian death tolls.
Often U.N. and humans rights organization's tallies of casualties differ from the USA military's tallies. A USA -backed Syrian opposition force says it has captured a northwestern neighborhood in the northern city of Raqqa from the Islamic State group after two days of fighting.
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Raqqa isn't the only ISIS-held city targeted by coalition strikes in recent weeks.
When terrorists seek to use civilians as human shields and civilian deaths as propaganda, there isn't much to be done except put your head down and wade through the blood.
The monitoring site Airwars reported that between 283 and 366 civilians have died from coalition airstrikes in Iraq in Syria just in the month of April alone.
VB: It is very hard when those terrorists have embedded themselves into civilian areas and, as in many instances across Syria, have used them as human shields and have used them as sort of propaganda tools and have exploited them.
Residents as well as the campaign group Raqqa is Being Silently Slaughtered and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor also say air strikes have killed significant numbers of civilians.
In southern Syria, Jordan said its border guards have killed five suspected infiltrators approaching the kingdom's border from Syria in a pickup truck and two motorcycles.
Pinheiro's panel, officially known as the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, has been chronicling evidence of war crimes and other atrocities in exhaustive detail.
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