An air raid in the government-held Qusur district of Deir al-Zor city in eastern Syria killed more than a dozen people, Syrian state television and a war monitor said on Monday.<\/p>\n
State television said jets from a US-led international coalition battling ISIS carried out the air strike and that it killed 14 civilians and wounded 32 others.<\/p>\n
The war monitor, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, reported that it was not known which aircraft carried out the strike, but that at least 22 people were killed.<\/p>\n
The Syrian army, backed by Russia and Iran, is fighting ISIS in the city of Deir al-Zor, as well as in parts of the surrounding countryside. Both Syrian and Russian jets have been hitting Islamic State in that area.<\/p>\n
The US-backed coalition has been conducting air strikes against ISIS in support of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias to the east of Deir al-Zor across the Euphrates.<\/p>\n
Coalition spokesman Colonel Ryan Dillon said by phone that he would check the reports, but that there was no reason for coalition jets to strike targets in Deir al-Zor city because the SDF was not fighting there.<\/p>\n
The rival US-backed and Syrian army offensives against ISIS have clashed several times over recent months as they have pushed the extremists from territory in eastern Syria.<\/p>\n
The US and Russia have said they communicate with each other to prevent possible points of conflict of violence between the two offensives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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