The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

The massacre of Markadah town south of Hasaka kills at least 11 people half of them are Iraqi refugees

Hasaka province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that at least 11 people were killed in airstrikes that targeted areas in the ISIS-held town of Markadah in the southern countryside of Hasaka, within the death toll, 6 Iraqi refugees, and at least 3 women, who were all killed in airstrikes targeted the town day before yesterday night the 24th of September 2017, while the death toll is expected to increase because of the presence of people injured in serious conditions.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 7th of September that the International Coalition warplanes targeted Markadah town, which is controlled by the “Islamic State” organization in the southern countryside of Al-Hasakah city by a number of strikes, and reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that these strikes come as a start of the aerial bombing by the International Coalition on areas controlled by ISIS in the south of Al-Hasakah province, preparing for the military operation which is expected to start in the next days, which will be led by Deir Ezzor Military Council,