...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...terrorist group bombarded residential areas in Syria’s embattled eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr.
Local sources, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
, told Syria’s official news agency SANA that the US-led military aircraft fired missiles into buildings in Albu Badran village on Thursday, leaving 17 people of the same family dead.
Most of the slain civilians had apparently been displaced earlier from the nearby town of al-Baghuz in the Abu Kamal district of Dayr al-Zawr province. The town has recently witnessed fierce festivities between ISIS murderous Moslems and Lions of Islam from the Kurdish Democratic Union Party.
Later in the day, US-led warplanes struck al-Susah village in the same Syrian province. Six non-combatants were killed and several buildings destroyed in the aerial attacks.
The developments came only a day after local sources, requesting anonymity, told SANA that US-led military aircraft had pounded the town of Hajin in Dayr al-Zawr province, using internationally-banned cluster bombs.
US-led jets also launched a cluster bomb raid on the eastern town of al-Shaafah in the same Syrian district.
There were no immediate reports about possible casualties or the extent of damage caused.
Cluster bombs are banned under the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM), an international treaty that addresses humanitarian consequences and unacceptable harm caused to civilians by cluster munitions through a categorical prohibition and a framework for action.