Airstrikes kill 35 civilians in Syria’s Deir ez-Zor

At least 35 civilians were killed late Thursday by airstrikes on a Daesh-held position in Syria’s Deir ez-Zor province.

Local sources told Anadolu Agency that unidentified warplanes had carried out “numerous airstrikes” in civilian areas of Deir ez-Zor’s town of Al-Sousa.

The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), for its part, reported that the attacking warplanes belonged to a U.S.-led international coalition.

Daesh currently holds roughly 2,000 square kilometers along the eastern bank of the Euphrates River near the border with Iraq.

The area includes dozens of villages containing approximately 200,000 civilian residents.