10 Months-old Air-strikes Killed Over 3000 Militants, 172 Civilians In Syria
3042 Islamic militants and 173 civilians were among 3216 people killed in US- led coalition air-strikes in Syria in the past 10 months, a UK-based monitoring group says.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Thursday that it has documented the death of 3216 people since the U.S led coalition air-strikes in Syria began on September 23, 2014.
The Islamic militants killed in air-strikes included members and leading figures of Islamic State and Jabhat al- Nusra groups, SOHR said. Most of the civilian casualties were the result of coalition air-strikes on oil refineries, oil wells, buildings and vehicles in the provinces of al- Hasakah, Deir Ezzor, al- Raqqa, Aleppo and Idlib. They include 53 children and 35 women. A family of a couple and their 5 children were killed in air-strikes on the village of Dali Hasan northeast of Aleppo.
The worst incident of civilian deaths in air-strikes took place in Bir Mahli village near the town of Serrin in Aleppo, where 64 people were killed when warplanes struck on the night of April 30, SOHR says. Half of them were children under the age of 18, and 19 were women. The coalition air-strikes have dealt a heavy blow on Islamic State ranks, killing 2927 militants, and most of them were Non-Syrian fighters, according to SOHR.
They were killed when coalition air forces targeted IS headquarters and groupings as well as oil refineries controlled by the terrorist outfit in Homs, Hama, al-Hasakah, al-Raqqa, Der-Ezzor, and Aleppo. SOHR says Islamic State lost dozens of its leaders of Arab and other foreign nationalities, prominent among them Abo Osama al- Iraqi, who was the self-imposed governor of al- Brakah State, Aamer al- Refdan, who was the former self-imposed governor of Al- Kheir State and Abu Sayyaf, a key IS commander. The U.S. Government had confirmed the killing of Abu Sayyaf in a daring special operation in eastern Syria in May. A Tunisian citizen, Abu Sayyaf had a senior role in overseeing Islamic State’s military operations as well as illicit oil and gas operations — a key source of revenue for the terrorist organization.
115 fighters from Jabhat al-Nusra were killed by coalition air strikes on their Headquarters in the western countryside of Aleppo and the northern countryside of Idlib. The group’s military leader Abo Homam, Abo Omar al- Kerdi, Abo Hamzah al- Faransi, Abo Qutadah al-Tonusi and Mohsen al- Fadli are among those killed.
Jabhat al-Nusra, or the al-Nusra Front, is a branch of al-Qaeda operating in Syria and Lebanon, and remains a major military asset of the northern Syrian rebels.
SOHR says it believes that the real number of militant casualties is more than what it documented because IS conceals the actual figures. As the coalition air-strikes targeting the terrorist pass 10 months, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights called for neutralizing civilian areas from all kinds of military operations to avoid innocent victims.
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