Deir Ezzor, SANA-Eleven civilians from one family were killed on Thursday in an aggression by US-led coalition on residential houses in al-Sha’afa town in Deir Ezzor countryside.

Civil sources told SANA reporter that warplanes of the US-led coalition launched an aggression on al-Sha’afa town, under the pretext of combating Deash terrorists, killing 11 citizens from one family.

Today’s massacre adds to tens of previous massacres perpetrated by the said coalition on Deir Ezzor countryside.

In addition to the martyrs, the aggression caused huge damage in the houses and properties.

Mazen</s></s>The coalition's activities in Syria are not authorized by the Syrian government, nor by the UN Security Council.The Thursday airstrike by the US-led coalition on Syria's eastern province of Deir ez-Zor, Syrian state broadcaster Al Ikhbariya reported. The coalition has pounded the town of Sha'afa.In November, the Syrian Arab News Agency reported that the US-led coalition had used internationally prohibited cluster bombs in airstrikes on Hajin and Sha'afa. Previously, multiple Syrian media reports alleged that toxic white phosphorus munitions had also been used in the coalition's repeated attacks in the region.The US Defense Department has dismissed the allegations as false, maintaining that the coalition's airstrikes in Syria conform with the laws of armed conflict.The Syrian authorities have repeatedly urged the United Nations to take measures targeting the perpetrators of the attacks and put an end to the coalition's unauthorized presence in Syria.</s>The coalition's activities in Syria are not authorized by the Syrian government, nor by the UN Security Council.

The Thursday airstrike by the US-led coalition on Syria’s eastern province of Deir ez-Zor killed 11 members of one family, Syrian state broadcaster Al Ikhbariya reported. The coalition has pounded the town of Sha'afa.

The US Defense Department has dismissed the allegations as false, maintaining that the coalition’s airstrikes in Syria conform with the laws of armed conflict.

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The Syrian authorities have repeatedly urged the United Nations to take measures targeting the perpetrators of the attacks and put an end to the coalition's unauthorized presence in Syria.</s>Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Syrian officials said Thursday a U.S.-led coalition airstrike killed 11 civilians in the residential town of al-Sha'afa in the Deir Ezzor province.

The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency said that the attack in al-Sha'afa damaged homes and other properties.

"Civil sources told SANA reporter that warplanes of the US-led coalition launched an aggression on al-Sha'afa town, under the pretext of combating (Islamic State) terrorists, killing 11 citizens from one family," the agency said, calling the victims martyrs. "Today's massacre adds to tens of previous massacres perpetrated by the said coalition on Deir Ezzor countryside."

The state-run Russian news agency TASS said there have been at least 1,139 civilians killed in Iraq and Syria as a result of strikes from the coalition since the summer of 2014, according to coalition data. The U.S.-led coalition has been fighting the Islamic State in the region and has frequently been at odds with forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Russia, particularly over Assad's alleged use of chemical weapons on civilians.

The Moscow Times reported a Russian woman, 35, and child, 4, were among the dead, according to Chechnyan human rights council member Kheda Saratova Friday.

"I urge everyone who is able to influence this situation to help stop the killing of innocent children," Saratova, state-run RIA Novosti said.

Saratova said that 15 women had called for help returning their daughters and grandchildren from Syria.

"These women essentially fell hostage to terrorists," Saratova said. "Now they're surrounded, killed by bombs and are pleading their relatives for help."

In December, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he was withdrawing all U.S. troops, about 2,000, out of Syria and proclaimed ISIS had been defeated there. That spurred the resignation of his then-Defense Secretary James Mattis.

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham said last week, though, that Trump was slowing his withdrawal in the country.</s>Deir Ezzor, SANA- Ten civilians among them children were killed after the US-led coalition shelled al-Kishkiah town in Deir Ezzor , less than 24 hours after its massacre against civilians al-Sha’afa village.

Local sources told SANA reporter that a house in al-Kishkiah was razed when warplanes of the US-led coalition launched an aggression on the town located on the left bank of the Euphrates River in the southeastern countryside of Deir Ezzor under the pretext of combating Daesh terrorists in Syria and Iraq, killing ten civilians , including four children.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Syrian state media say that a U.S.-led coalition aerial attack killed 11 civilians in Deir ez-Zor Governorate.