Alwaght- US-led coalition's airstrike has killed over 15 civilians and injured dozens more in an eastern Syrian town.
According to Lebanon’s Arabic-language al-Ahed news website, the US-led airstrike targeted late Monday a residential compound in the town of AbuKamal in the southeastern countryside of Dayr al-Zawr.
The report added that most of the casualties were women and children.
Associated Press cited activists as saying that the airstrike in the border city was similar to those carried out by the US-led coalition carried out in Syria and Iraq.
"Airstrikes by the US-led coalition have killed dozens of civilians over the past several weeks as the battle against the extremists intensifies," AP reported.
Human Rights Watch said in a report Tuesday that US forces appear to have failed to take necessary precautions to avoid civilian casualties in a March airstrike that killed dozens of people in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo.
The US-led coalition has been conducting airstrikes against purported ISIS targets inside Syria since September 2014 without any authorization from the Damascus government or a United Nations mandate.
The US-led coalition has repeatedly been accused of targeting and killing civilians. It has also been largely incapable of fulfilling its declared aim of eliminating ISIS.
US blamed for Aleppo airstrike that killed dozens of Civilians
While American officials claimed they have targeted an al-Qaida gathering on March 16, Syrian rebels reported that the airstrike struck a crowded mosque, Omar Ibn al-Khattab, killing 46 civilians in Aleppo's Jeeneh district.
Proving Syrian rebels' repport, Human Rights Watch's published a 16-page report saying that it found no evidence to support the allegation that members of al-Qaida or any other armed group were meeting in the mosque. It said a religious lecture was being held at the time of the attack and prayers were about to begin.
"The US seems to have gotten several things fundamentally wrong in this attack, and dozens of civilians paid the price," said Ole Solvang, deputy emergencies director at Human Rights Watch. "The US authorities need to figure out what went wrong, start doing their homework before they launch attacks, and make sure it doesn't happen again."
Syria has been fighting different foreign-sponsored militant and terrorist groups since March 2011. UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura estimated last August that more than 400,000 people had been killed in the crisis until then. No up-to-date official tallies are available from the Syrian conflict.
