Summary
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based activists group, said Thursday that at least 38 civilians were killed in airstrikes carried out by a U.S.-led coalition in Hassakeh province in northeast Syria in the past two days.
Air raids in at least three other villages killed 15 others Thursday, including three children, while eight more civilians died in airstrikes elsewhere, it said.
U.S. Lieutenant General Charles Brown, head of U.S. Air Forces Central Command, said he was aware of the report of civilian casualties.
Washington backs the Syria Democratic Forces in Syria, an alliance of Kurdish YPG fighters and other groups fighting the extremists on the ground and which took Al-Hawl from ISIS in November.
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