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Air raids on IS-held Deir Ezzor kill 30
[AnNahar] At least 30 civilians, including 13 children, were killed in air strikes in eastern Syria on Friday, a monitoring group said.

It was unclear if the raids in Deir Ezzor province, which is mostly controlled by the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 group, were carried out by Russian or regime warplanes, the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
ISIS does like its human shields... which makes their deaths its responsibility according to international law.
The monitor said eight women were among those killed in the strikes on Tabiyyah Jazeera, around 20 kilometers (12 miles) east of Deir Ezzor city, the historic provincial capital.

It added that dozens of people were maimed and the toll was expected to rise.
The Lions of ISIS get such medicine and competent doctoring as is available, while the rest get whatever outcome Allah (or Darwin) wills.
The monitor relies on a network of activists on the ground and distinguishes between Syrian, Russian and U.S.-led coalition aircraft based on flight patterns, as well as the type of planes and ordnance used.

The strikes come as the regime battles IS jihadists who launched a major assault on Deir Ezzor city over the weekend.

The fighting there has killed at least 439 people since Saturday, according to the Observatory, including combatants who died in strikes or festivities, and civilians executed by IS.

While IS holds most of Deir Ezzor province, the regime has clung onto parts of the historic provincial capital, as well as the nearby military airport.

But with its multi-front assault, IS now controls 60 percent of the city, and has tightened a siege of the roughly 200,000 people still inside it.

Russia, a staunch ally of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Light of the Alawites...
's government, began an air campaign in support of Damascus last September.
Posted by: trailing wife 2016-01-23
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