Congratulations. You've reached the end of the internet.</s>Beirut: Syrian warplanes carried out air strikes on Saturday against Islamic State in an area of countryside east of Raqqa and close to where U.S.-backed forces operate, Syrian state TV reported, citing a military source.

The attacks in the town of Maadan and village of Bir al-Sabkhawi, near the provincial boundary with Deir al-Zor governorate, "destroyed several bases and vehicles" belonging to the Islamist group, the source said.

The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said it was the first time in several weeks that the Syrian military had launched an attack in that area.

The Syrian army has active front lines with Islamic State in Raqqa`s western countryside, where it has recaptured territory from the jihadists.

But air strikes in the east take the fight closer to where the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance dominated by Kurdish fighters, are operating.

The SDF launched a final assault to drive Islamic State out of its stronghold of Raqqa city last month, and have spearheaded efforts against the group in Syria`s northeast.

The Syrian army backed by Russian warplanes is separately fighting the jihadists further west, but has also carried out air raids in Raqqa and Deir al-Zor provinces.

The SDF accused Syrian government forces of bombing their positions in June, one of several incidents that raised tension between the United States on one side and Syria and Russia on the other.

It was not immediately clear how close Saturday`s air strikes came to SDF positions, but they were within kilometres (miles) of SDF-controlled territory.</s>Syrian forces battle ISIS for the city of Raqqa

ABC News' Ian Pannell reports from Iraq on the fight for Raqqa, the capital of ISIS, and the impact the battle's outcome may have on Syria as well as Europe and the U.S.</s>Syrians clear up the rubble of their houses that were destroyed during clashes on the outskirts of Raqqa, on Wednesday, as Syrian Democratic Forces, a Kurdish-Arab alliance, are battling to retake the city from Daesh group fighters (AFP photo)

AIN ISSA, Syria — The US-led coalition will have "a great deal more" to do in Syria even after defeating the Daesh terror group in its northern Raqqa bastion, a deputy commander of the coalition said Sunday.

"Daesh is not defeated with the liberation of Raqqa. The defeat of Daesh was not completed with the liberation of Mosul" in Iraq, British Major General Rupert Jones told reporters.

Speaking in the town of Ain Issa 50 kilometres north of Raqqa, Jones said: "We know as an international coalition there's still a great deal more to do here in Syria."

He said that the US-backed Arab-Kurdish alliance known as the Syrian Democratic Forces "have proved themselves to be a reliable counter-Daesh partner".

"We will continue to work with the Syrian Democratic Forces to complete the defeat of Daesh," Jones said.

The US-backed forces have successfully routed Daesh from several areas in Syria since their creation in 2014.

They have spent months encircling Raqa, the de facto capital of Daesh's Syrian territory since 2014, and finally broke into it in early June, seizing several neighbourhoods.

But for the past week they have encountered fierce resistance from the terrorists, and progress has also been hampered by the presence of civilians trapped in Raqqa city centre.

"It is every bit as tough as we expected but there's no surprise in that so there are not currently any plans for us to divert more, to require more forces," Jones added.

He also said the "protection of civilians" was of key concern to the coalition.

According to the coalition, 603 civilians have been killed in US-led strikes on Iraq and Syria since the air campaign against the militants was launched towards the end of 2014.

But Airwars, a London-based collective of journalists and researchers that tracks civilian deaths in Iraq and Syria, says 744 civilians were killed in coalition strikes in Syria and Iraq in the month of June alone.</s>Robert Fisk - After a sweeping Syrian military advance to the edge of the besieged Isis ‘capital’ of Raqqa, the Russians, the Syrian Army and Kurds of the YPG militia - theoretically allied to the US - have set up a secret ‘coordination’ centre in the desert of eastern Syria to prevent “mistakes” between the Russian-backed and American-supported forces now facing each other across the Euphrates river. The proof could be found this week in a desert village of mud-walled huts and stifling heat - it was 48 degrees - where I sat on the floor of an ill-painted villa with a Russian air force colonel in camouflage uniform, a young officer of the Kurdish militia - with a ‘YPG’ (Kurdish People’s Militia) patch on his sleeve - and a group of Syrian officers and local Syrian tribal militiamen.

Their presence showed clearly that despite belligerent Western - especially American - claims that Syrian forces are interfering with the ‘Allied’ campaign against Isis, both sides are in reality going to enormous lengths to avoid confrontation. Russian Colonel Yevgeni, thin and close-shaven with a dark moustache, smiled politely but refused to talk to me - The Independent being the first western news media to visit the tiny village near Resafeh - but his young Kurdish opposite number, who asked me not to disclose his name, insisted that “all of us are fighting in one campaign against ‘Dae’esh’ (Isis), and that is why we have this centre - and to avoid mistakes.” Colonel Yevgeni nodded approvingly at this description but maintained his silence - a wise man, I thought - for he must be the easternmost Russian officer in Syria, only a few miles from the Euphrates river.

The 24-year old Kurdish YPG representative, a veteran of the Isis siege of Kobani on the Turkish border, said that just over two weeks ago - after the latest Syrian offensive took Isis forces west of Raqqa by surprise - a Russian air strike had mistakenly targeted a Kurdish position. “That is why we set up our centre here ten days ago,” he said. “We talk everyday and we already have another centre at Afrin to coordinate the campaign. We have to make one force that fights together.” The presence of these men at this remote desert outpost shows just how seriously Moscow views the strategy of the Syrian war and the need to monitor the largely Kurdish ‘Syrian Democratic Forces’ which are already inside Raqqa with the support of US air strikes.

The SDF - which has nothing ‘democratic’ about it except perhaps its pay scales - is regarded with deep suspicion by the Turks, who will be enraged to learn of the Syrian-Kurdish cooperation, even though both Ankara and Damascus are both ferociously opposed to the creation of a future Kurdish state. But however tenuous the new YPG-Russian-Syrian connections may be, they demonstrate that all sides are determined to avoid any military confrontation between Moscow and Washington.

There was more than a whiff of T.E. Lawrence about the self-confidence of these few men amid the dust and sand which covered most of us the moment we stepped outside their office. Around us on the desert floor lay hundreds of bombed or abandoned Isis oil ‘wells’ - amateurishly-built iron barrels and concrete platforms from which Isis extracted the oil to finance their Caliphate which once stretched from here all the way to Mosul. The YPG officer insisted that the location of the Russian-Syrian-Kurdish centre had no connection to the vast Syrian oil fields around us, but evidence of recent Russian and American attacks on the Isis constructions was everywhere.

Burned-out oil tankers, trucks and even some exploded Syrian tanks - presumably victims of Isis - lay across the desert. One trail of tankers - much like those angrily described by Vladimir Putin almost two years ago, taking oil exports to sell in Turkey - stood carbonized beside the road. Even a lorry carrying potatoes had been blitzed apart. There was no sign of bodies but the Syrian army had with some sense of irony left the original black and white Isis sign standing on the main road from Homs, ‘welcoming’ visitors to the Isis “Caliphate-Province of Raqqa”.

Syria’s forward units of Russian-made tanks and infantry armour now cluster not far from the Roman and Umayad city of Resafeh whose massive walls and stone towers still stand - untouched by Isis’ two years of culturecide, perhaps because their carvings display no human or animal images. Thousands of camels were being herded past the great and crumbling city of the ancient Calipha Umaya bin Hisham Abdul-Malik in a smog of dust which drifted over military hardware and soldiers alike. Resafeh was the Roman city of Sergiopolis, named after a Christian Roman centurion who was tortured and put to death for his religion - not unlike Isis’ own Christian victims in the deserts here three years ago.

The highway east from Homs was expected to have been the route of the Syrian attack this month. Hence the vast earth ‘berms’ and defensive sand-walls erected by Isis along the length of the road. But for Isis, the now-infamous Syrian army tactic of assaulting its enemies from the rear and flank drove the ‘Caliphate’ from hundreds of square miles of land west of the Euphrates. General Saleh, the one-legged commander of the Syrian division on the Euphrates - who has adapted this policy many times, along with his fellow officer and friend, Colonel ‘Tiger’ Suheil - says that his forces could, if he wished, be in the centre of Raqqa within five hours “if we decided to do that”.

He described how his men had first driven al-Qaeda and Isis from the Sheikh Najjar industrial city outside Aleppo back to the Assad lake, how they had protected the water supply to the city at great loss to their own forces, how they had moved east from the Koyeress airbase to capture Deir Hafer and Meskane and other towns in the Aleppo countryside - and then suddenly surged south east, south of the Euphrates towards Raqqa.

“Our forces are now seven miles from the Euphrates between Raqqa and Deir ez-Zour, 14 miles from the centre of Raqqa and ten miles from the old Thabqa airbase,” the general almost shouted. “How many Da’esh (Isis) did we kill? I don’t care. I am not interested. Da’esh’, Nusrah, al-Qaeda, they are all terrorists. Their deaths do not matter. It’s war.” But, I suggested to General Saleh - because I had been studying my sand-blasted maps and had listened to many a military lecture in Damascus of late - surely his next target would be not Raqqa (already partly invested by American-backed forces) but the huge surrounded Syrian garrison city of Deir ez-Zour with its thousands of trapped civilians.

“Our president has said we will recover every square inch of Syria,” the general replied, repeating the mantra of all Syrian officers of the regime. “Why do you say Deir ez-Zour?” Because, I said, that would release the 10,000 Syrian soldiers in the city to fight on the war front. There was just a hint of a grin on the officer’s face, but then it faded. In fact, I don’t think the Syrians will get involved with the American-supported force fighting for Raqqa - that, after all, was the point of the little ‘coordination’ centre I saw in the desert - but I do believe the Syrian army are heading for Deir ez-Zour. As for the general, of course, he was saying nothing about this. Nor, obviously, did he believe in body-counts.

There is, in reality, another intriguing tactic being deployed by the Syrian administration. The local Rif Raqqa governor - ‘rif’ indicates the countryside around a city, not to be confused with the town itself - is now setting up headquarters near General Saleh’s caravan. It’s a real campaign caravan, by the way, which rocks when you step aboard, his office and bedroom combined in one small room, his black walking stick by the bed-head. The local governor, however, is scarcely a mile away, planning the restoration of water and electricity supplies, the financing of public works and relief for refugees. When I left the area, 29 families - cartloads of children and black-shrouded women and upturned sofas - had just arrived in Rasafeh from Deir ez-Zour to seek the Raqqa governor’s assistance.–Independent

Another 50 had arrived the previous day. It seemed perfectly obvious that if the Syrian army lets America’s largely Kurdish friends occupy Raqqa, it is going to help the Syrian government civilian administration take over the city by the force of bureaucracy. How would that be for a bloodless victory?

But military self-confidence is often the handmaiden of misadventure. The highway which forms the tip of the Homs-Aleppo triangle has now been extended 60 miles to Resafeh, and General Saleh makes no secret that Isis and its fellow cultists return across the desert after dark to attack his soldiers. These men - many of whom are teenagers - are billeted in tent encampments beside the road, protected by tanks and anti-aircraft guns. And their battles are constant, Isis still placing IED bombs beside the highway today. When I later travelled across the desert to Homs, I followed for some time a truck carrying a 155 mm artillery piece so over-used that its barrel had split apart.

Yet already, Syrian engineers are restoring electricity capacity from the desert generating stations which have only recently been hide-outs for Isis leaders, a power system intimately connected to the Syrian oil fields, slowly being recovered from the Isis enemy, which remain - modest though they are in comparison with the great Gulf, Iraqi and Iranian oil resources - Syria’s ‘pearl in the desert’. Who controls these wealth-machines - how their product will be shared now it has been freed from the Isis mafia - will determine part of Syria’s future political history.</s>Although this is self-serving on the part of the Erdogan government, i.e. he was complaining about the US support on the Kurdish PYD and YPG, which he considers terrorist organizations just like the PKK inside Turkey, the Turkish government-controlled media disclosed a week ago that the United States has a total of 10 military outposts in Syria, and where their exact locations are.

Turkey Tries to ‘Sabotage’ Raqqa Operation by Disclosing Coalition Bases

Earlier this week Turkey’s news agency Anadolu reported that the United States had a total of 10 military outposts in Syria in the territory controlled by the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG).

Earlier this week Turkey’s news agency Anadolu reported that the United States had a total of 10 military outposts in Syria in the territory controlled by the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG).

The report identified the locations where the bases were situated and outlined some of their uses, including US-led coalition airstrike coordination and the training of Kurdish fighters.

Anadolu noted that the locations of the US forces are often designated as “closed zones” and are classified. US ground troops supplement airstrikes and shelling, train local forces and conduct operational planning. Some units also participate in active combat operations.

The outlet also reported about three more posts in the north of the province of Raqqa, two of which host French troops alongside US personnel. The third transfers equipment to Kurdish forces and acts as a communication center of the US-led coalition forces.

Pentagon spokesman Eric Pahon told Sputnik that the disclosure of sensitive military information by Turkish media could potentially disrupt US-led operations against Daesh.

Meanwhile, Ankara denied its involvement in the report.

“Anadolu news agency prepared this piece of news [about US bases in Syria] on its own. As a news agency, it could choose this topic. Even in our thoughts, we did not want to take steps that threaten the security of our allies,” Turkish Presidential Spokesperson Ambassador Ibrahim Kalin said Thursday at a press conference.

However, Emre Demir, a prominent Turkish journalist working in France, said that the Turkish government may have possibly been involved in the report.

“This is a very sensitive report. We should not forget that 90 percent of Turkish media is government-controlled. Such news agencies as Anadolu are controlled by [Turkish President Recep Tayyip] Erdogan’s close circle and his family,” Demir told Sputnik France.

The journalist pointed out that since the information was reported by Anadolu, the Turkish government may be attempting to “sabotage” the military operation in Raqqa while “sending a signal to the US.”

The Turkish government considers the PYD and YPG to be affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), listed as a terrorist organization. The PYD and the YPG, as well as the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have been receiving support from the US in fighting Daesh terrorists in Syria.

According to Jacques Hogard, a retired French military officer and president of the consulting company EPEE, the public disclosure of sensitive military information could be a “very dangerous blow under the belt” to the US and French militaries.

“Islamist radicals, including Daesh, gather information and our enemies are very likely to use the information from that report to stage new attacks. The Turkish government is playing a double game. Ankara should explain the situation to NATO,” Hogard told Sputnik France.

He also pointed out that Ankara’s actions are aimed against Kurds backed by the US and other Western allies.

“I think this is why the disclosure of such sensitive information took place,” Hogard concluded.

Erdogan is slowly realizing that he, too, is not indispensable after the CIA coup against him took place and failed with the timely intelligence tip off from the Russians.

Nevertheless, the Western Oligarchy has already achieved its primary goal, which is to sow turmoil in the region.</s>Civilians in Raqqa tore off their traditional dress and set it alight after being liberated from the city on Thursday.And some of the men immediately began shaving off their facial hair in a move to 'spite' Islamic State.Strict dress codes were implemented by ISIS, requiring women to wear long, black robes over their dresses and cover their faces almost entirely with black burqas.One woman, who had exposed her face, refusing to wear the veil, said: "They killed my son because he wouldn't pray."They didn't allow us to take his body for a whole week."One man, who was having his beard trimmed by a barber said defiantly: "Cut it all off, cut it all of to spite ISIS."He then smiles as his hairdresser nods in agreement.Islamic State has now been defeated in its main stronghold in the Iraqi city of Mosul and is under pressure in its base in the Syrian city of Raqqa Yesterday, Syrian warplanes carried out air strikes against Islamic State in an area of countryside east of Raqqa and close to where US-backed forces operate, Syrian state TV reported, citing a military source.The attacks in the town of Maadan and village of Bir al-Sabkhawi, near the provincial boundary with Deir al-Zor governorate, "destroyed several bases and vehicles" belonging to the Islamist group, the source said.The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said it was the first time in several weeks that the Syrian military had launched an attack in that area.The Syrian army has active front lines with Islamic State in Raqqa's western countryside, where it has recaptured territory from the jihadists.But air strikes in the east take the fight closer to where the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance dominated by Kurdish fighters, are operating.The SDF launched a final assault to drive Islamic State out of its stronghold of Raqqa city last month, and have spearheaded efforts against the group in Syria's northeast.The Syrian army backed by Russian warplanes is separately fighting the jihadists further west, but has also carried out air raids in Raqqa and Deir al-Zor provinces.The SDF accused Syrian government forces of bombing their positions in June, one of several incidents that raised tension between the United States on one side and Syria and Russia on the other.It was not immediately clear how close Saturday's air strikes came to SDF positions, but they were within kilometres (miles) of SDF-controlled territory.</s>ABC News' Ian Pannell reports from Iraq on the fight for Raqqa, the capital of ISIS, and the impact the battle's outcome may have on Syria as well as Europe and the U.S.</s>JUDY WOODRUFF: The battle to dislodge ISIS from its makeshift capital, Raqqa, in Syria is intensifying, as U.S.-backed militia press the offensive.

But, for years, a group of citizen journalists have documented life inside the city. Their work started when the uprising began in 2011 against Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad. And it continues today under even more deadly and dangerous circumstances.

JEFFREY BROWN: They call themselves Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently.

And last year, the Committee to Protect Journalists awarded the group its International Press Freedom Award.

Their story is now told in a documentary titled “City of Ghosts.”

And joining me is the film’s director, Matthew Heineman, and Abdul-Aziz al-Hamza, one of the group’s members.

Welcome to both of you.

ABDUL-AZIZ AL-HAMZA, Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently: Thank you.

JEFFREY BROWN: Aziz, I want to — you and your friends and colleagues are not fighters. You were not journalists before all of this started.

In your own words, what are you? How do you describe yourselves?

ABDUL-AZIZ AL-HAMZA: Before the Syrian revolution, before all what happened in Syria, I was a normal teenager who was studying biochemistry.

So I had nothing to do with politics. Even my family had like no political background. So I was as any college student anywhere.

JEFFREY BROWN: And then, when this started, you and your friends felt you had to document it.

ABDUL-AZIZ AL-HAMZA: The way how the Syrian regime and ISIS prevented the international media organizations to come and cover what’s going on, it was like kind of a duty to cover the atrocities of both of them.

So we decided first with our mobile phones to film the demonstrations. At our own, we developed our skills to document what the human rights violations against the people.

JEFFREY BROWN: So, Matthew, many stories are told about Syria, why was this the one you wanted to tell?

MATTHEW HEINEMAN, Director, “City of Ghosts”: You know, I was really fascinated by this war of ideas, this war of propaganda, this information war between ISIS on one hand and RBSS on the other.

ISIS uses these slick, almost Hollywood-style videos to disseminate fear across the world and to attract followers and proclaim a safe haven, a paradise for Muslims.

RBSS and the work of Aziz and his colleagues totally counter that and show the extraordinarily awful human rights violations that they’re committing almost on a daily basis. And, you know, that’s what initially drew me to the film, but the film became much more than that to me.

It became a — ultimately, it became a story of them fleeing, being forced to flee from Syria, to Turkey, and Turkey to Europe. It became an immigrant story. It became a story of rising nationalism in Europe. It became a story about trauma and the cumulative effects of trauma, so it became much more than that.

JEFFREY BROWN: All right, let’s take a look at a clip that shows a little bit of the work of your group.

MAN: We are made up to have two groups. The internal group is in Raqqa and is made up of around 17 correspondents. The internal group’s mission is to film, photograph and deliver urgent news.

The primary mission of the external term group is to communicate with the group inside.

MAN (through interpreter): Rashidi, go to the door. A girl is going to bring you stuff. She is wearing a deep red head scarf.

MAN: The internal group then sends us the information.

MAN (through interpreter): There’s a big airstrike in the north from our correspondent Iyan Issa

MAN: We, the external group, then distribute it to the world.

JEFFREY BROWN: So, Aziz, the film mostly, necessarily, spends its time with you and your colleagues who are outside Raqqa.

But those who are inside, who we just saw, how are they able to do their work? And what kind of dangers do they face?

ABDUL-AZIZ AL-HAMZA: So, they are like — in every second and every moment they are like in a dangerous and a risky situation.

So, they could be killed by ISIS, the airstrikes, the shelling. But they are risking their lives daily to show the reality of what’s going on.

JEFFREY BROWN: Matthew, you and I talked about your last film, which was really around the border area in the U.S., and the way you told that story, sort of embedding yourself into the violence. This is a little different. Tell me how you made this film.

MATTHEW HEINEMAN: Yes, so this was a different experience for me.

I was forced to — I wasn’t able to go to Raqqa. I would be killed instantly. And so I started filming them in Turkey after they were forced to flee, after some of the members of their group were killed.

And the sort of through-line of the film is basically me with them as they are escaping from safe house to safe house, ultimately landing in Europe.

You know, I think these issues of ISIS and Syria are so often relegated to headlines and to stats, and I really wanted to put a human face to this topic.

JEFFREY BROWN: What is the situation now? Of course, the battle for Raqqa is going on, and we read about airstrikes, civilians being hurt.

What’s the situation for your colleagues?

ABDUL-AZIZ AL-HAMZA: For the people of Raqqa, so they are suffering not only by ISIS, by the airstrike of the international coalition.

At the same time, the Russians are still bombing the city, the Syrian regime. So, everyone is like bombing the city. The local are besieged between all these sides. The condition is the city, the services are like so bad.

Everything is getting expensive day after day. People are missing like many things for their necessary lives. And many people were kind of trying to flee the city, but the land mines — so it’s a horrible situation.

JEFFREY BROWN: With the outcome in Raqqa still so uncertain, do you know whether you will be able to return or to what kind of city you will be able to return to?

ABDUL-AZIZ AL-HAMZA: I hope that one day, I will be able to return to Raqqa, to my city.

So that’s the reason why I started this group with my colleagues, so to fight for our city, to be able one day to go back and lead the rest of our lives in Raqqa and Syria. So, I don’t want to be like a fugitive anymore.

JEFFREY BROWN: Matthew, what do you hope people take from this, from your film?

MATTHEW HEINEMAN: Bombs are not going to fix ISIS.

This ground war that we’re fighting is not going to end ISIS. ISIS is an idea. And we have to fight this idea with the same tools that they’re using.

And so I think, you know, we, as a global community, we, as the United States, we as journalists, have to figure out ways to combat ISIS’ ideology, ISIS’ extremist ideology, not just with guns and bombs, but with words, with campaigns like the amazing work that this group is doing.

JEFFREY BROWN: All right, the new film is “City of Ghosts.”

Matthew Heineman and Abdul-Aziz al-Hamza, thank you both very much.</s>Alwaght- Syrian government forces continue to advance in the direction of ISIS terrorist group stronghold of Raqqa while establishing control over nearby areas.

Military sources say Syrian forces established control over the town of al-Dakhila and al-Sabkhawi well and gas field in the southern countryside of Raqqa province.

During the intense operations, Syrian troops killed many terrorists and destroyed their car bombs and machinegun-equipped vehicles. Syrian army units continue to pursue the remaining ISIS terrorists in al-Badiya area in the direction of Raqqa.

The Syrian Air Force carried out intensive airstrikes targeting ISIS supply routes and gatherings in Ma’adan city and Beir al-Sabkhawai village in the southeastern countryside of Raqqa province.

The airstrikes left many ISIS terrorists dead and destroyed a number of positions, vehicles and heavy machineguns belonging to the terrorists.

Meanwhile, the Syrian Arab Army opened during the past two days four humanitarian corridors for the safe evacuation and rescue of civilians from Raqqa.

After the liberation of Mosul in Iraq, all attention is now focused on the Syrian city of Raqqa, the de facto capital of ISIS, which is now expected to fall as Syrian forces make advances. The liberation of Raqqa will herald the complete annihilation of ISIS in its current form.

Meanwhile, the Syrian Air Force destroyed ISIS terrorists’ gatherings in the neighborhood of al-Kannamat and at the surrounding of the Panorama area in Deir Ezzor.

Military sources say army units clashed with ISIS terrorists on the southern axis in al-Maqaber, the Panorama, the surrounding of the Airport, al-Roshdiya and al-Heiqa where many of the terrorists were either killed or injured.

The army also destroyed makeshift equipment for refining oil stolen by ISIS from the wells of Boqros in eastern Deir Ezzor, killing many terrorists in the process.

The conflict in Syria started in March 2011, with the government of President Bashar al-Assad blaming some Western states and their regional allies of backing Takfiri terrorists wreaking havoc in the country.
The Russian air force bombards the city of Madan and Zor Shamr Camp, south and east of Raqqa, Syria, with cluster bombs, killing six civilians and wounding 19 others. Nearby Alburamadan town was also struck; there are no reports of casualties.