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Air strike in Syria’s Deir Ezzor killed 26 IS jihadists: monitor
BEIRUT, July 13, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – An air strike in Syria’s eastern province of Deir Ezzor has killed 26 members of the Islamic State jihadist group, a Britain-based monitor said on Friday.
Twenty-eight civilians were also killed in the raid on the village of Al-Soussa near the Iraqi border late Thursday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said.
It was not immediately clear if the raid was carried out by an Iraqi plane or by one of the US-led coalition fighting IS, which was not immediately available for comment.
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