Alwaght- The US-led coalition airstrikes have reportedly continuing killed at least 16 people in Syria's Deir ez-Zor province.
The Syrian state news agency SANA has reported on Wednesday the US-led coalition has conducted a series of airstrikes on residential areas in al-Bahra village in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, which resulted in the killing of 16 civilians, including nine women.
The media outlet stated that the death toll was likely to rise, as the number of injured are in critical condition after the strikes.
The so-called anti-ISIS coalition has been conducting airstrikes against in Syria since 2014 without any request or authorization by the government of President Bashar al-Assad or the United Nations.
Last month, SANA had reported another deadly airstrike by the coalition, claiming that fifteen civilians had been killed by the coalition's actions.
Following the US-led coalition's actions on the ground, the Syrian Foreign Ministry on December 14 sent a letter to the UN Security Council and to the UN Secretary-General, accusing the coalition forces of killing civilians in the province of Deir Ez-Zor.
The Syrian government blamed the coalition at the UN of making deals with the remnants of ISIS and coordinating its actions, as multiple reports appeared in the media that the US had evacuated ISIS militants and terrorist leaders from several areas across the Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor.
According to Damascus, the coalition's air force has been used to stage "accidental" attacks on the Syrian army as they advanced against the militants.
