Syria: Government airstrikes on Islamic State ‘capital’ kill 95 people
At least 95 people have been reportedly been killed in Syrian regime airstrikes on the Islamic State group’s self-proclaimed capital.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 52 of the dead in Raqqa were civilians, but is unclear if any of the other casualties were militants.
Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the London-based monitoring group, said: “Some of the strikes hit near to Islamic State posts.
“There were also 20 unidentified victims who could be civilians or jihadists, as well as the disfigured remains of at least seven other people.