Islam Times - US-Led Airstrikes Killed over 650 Syrian Children in 40 Months: Report

Islam Times - US-led forces have killed over 600 children in Syria during airstrikes purported to be against ISIS terrorist group that started in September 2014.

The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that 2,815 people, including 655 minors and 481 women, were killed in US-led aerial attacks against civilian areas in the conflict-plagued Arab country over the past 40 months.

The London-based watchdog said the aerial assaults were conducted in the provinces of Hasakah, Raqqah, Aleppo, Idlib and Dayr al-Zawr, noting that the remains of 19 victims still await identification.

It added that the US-led coalition continues to carry out airstrikes across Syria despite the fact that the militants are controlling only pockets of Syrian territories following their humiliating defeats in the northern and eastern parts of the country.

The US-led coalition has been conducting airstrikes against what are said to be ISIS targets inside Syria since September 2014 without any authorization from the Damascus government or a UN mandate.

The military alliance has repeatedly been accused of targeting and killing civilians. It has also been largely incapable of achieving its purported goal of destroying ISIS.

The defeat of ISIS in Syria last December was largely as a result of the Syrian army offensive backed by Russian airpower, Hezbollah resistance fighters and military advisors from Iran.