{"id":154570,"date":"2018-07-13T13:26:08","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T13:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/syria-war-anti-is-strike-kills-many-civilians\/"},"modified":"2018-07-13T13:26:08","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T13:26:08","slug":"syria-war-anti-is-strike-kills-many-civilians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/syria-war-anti-is-strike-kills-many-civilians\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria war: Anti-IS strike &#8216;kills many civilians&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"map\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/5335\/production\/_102510312_7b8e0d40-a71d-4fd0-b495-5df9331bec03.jpg\"\/>                      <\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">The US-led coalition says it &quot;may have&quot; carried out an air strike in an area of eastern Syria where scores of civilians were reportedly killed on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty-four people, including at least 28 civilians as well as Islamic State (IS) group militants, died in the strike on a village near the Iraqi border, a monitoring group says.<\/p>\n<p>The raid hit a gathering at an ice factory near the village of al-Soussa.<\/p>\n<p>Syria has blamed the US for the incident in Deir al-Zour province.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The coalition or our partner forces may have conducted strikes in the vicinity of al-Soussa... yesterday,&quot; coalition spokesman US Army Col Sean Ryan told Reuters news agency.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why is there a war in Syria?<\/li>\n<li>The rise and fall of &#039;Islamic State&#039;<\/li>\n<li>The war against \u2018Islamic State\u2019 in maps and charts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The area around al-Soussa, on the eastern bank of the Euphrates river, is still under the control of IS, which still retains pockets of territory near the border with Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>IS militants in the area have come under attack from Syrian government forces backed by Russian air power from the west and US-supported Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) backed by US coalition air power from the east.<\/p>\n<p>The nearby town of Albu Kamal, on the western bank of the Euphrates, was retaken by Syrian government forces in December.<\/p>\n<p>Iraq, which has practically expelled IS from its territory, has also recently carried out air strikes on suspected IS militants near the border in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>The jihadists seized control of large parts of northern and western Iraq and northern and eastern Syria in 2014 but has since lost nearly all that territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US-led coalition says it &quot;may have&quot; carried out an air strike in an area of eastern Syria where scores of civilians were reportedly killed on Thursday. Fifty-four people, including<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":154571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}