Separate Russian and US-led coalition air strikes on Tuesday killed 28 civilians in Syria\u2019s eastern Deir al-Zor province, where rival offensives against the ISIS group are under way, a monitor said.
\nThe province lies along Syria\u2019s border with Iraq and is seen as a strategic prize by both Russian-backed Syrian troops and an alliance of Arab and Kurdish forces supported by the US-led air coalition.
\nOn Tuesday, deadly coalition raids struck the village of Al-Shahabat, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
\n\u201cCoalition air strikes killed 12 members of a single family, among them five children, in a village on the eastern banks of the Euphrates River,\u201d said Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman.
\nHe said fierce fighting between jihadists and the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces was raging around IS-held Al-Shahabat, which lies around seven kilometres (four miles) away from the river.
\nThe Euphrates slices across Deir al-Zor province diagonally.
\nSyrian government troops are fighting across the river on its western side as part of a separate assault that is backed by Moscow.
\nRussian air strikes on Tuesday hit a cluster of tents on the western banks of the Euphrates, killing \u201c16 civilians including five children,\u201d according to Abdel Rahman.
\nHe said civilians had set up the tents on the edge of the Zaghir Shamiyah village after fleeing their homes fearing clashes.
\nThe strikes follow three days of deadly suspected Russian raids in Deir al-Zor province that have killed dozens of civilians, according to the Observatory.<\/p>\n
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