Russian strikes kill 34 civilians in Syria

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Russian strikes kill 34 civilians in Syria

BEIRUT: Russian air strikes on Sunday killed 34 civilians, among them 15 children, in a village held by the Islamic State group in Syria´s eastern Deir Ezzor province, a monitor said.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strikes hit the village of Al-Shafah, on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River, in the early hours of Sunday morning. The Observatory relies on a network of sources inside Syria, and says it determines whose planes carry out raids according to type, location, flight patterns and munitions used.
Russia is a close ally of Syria´s President Bashar al-Assad, and in September 2015 began a military intervention in support of his government that has gradually helped Damascus regain territory.
Syria´s Deir Ezzor is one of the last places IS Jihadists hold territory in the country, after being driven from their major strongholds including their one-time de facto Syrian capital Raqa city.
The oil-rich eastern province that borders Iraq was once almost completely under IS control, but the Jihadists now hold just nine percent of Deir Ezzor, according to the Observatory. They have faced two separate offensives there, one led by the regime with Russian backing and the other by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, an alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters. More than 340,000 people have been killed in Syria since the conflict began in March 2011 with anti-government protests.
The intensifying push by the Syrian government and allied forces to take the last major rebel stronghold near the capital Damascus killedanother 23 people on Sunday and injured many, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The group said at least 127 people, including 30 children, have been killed by air strikes and shelling since the Syrian army backed by Russian jets began an offensive nearly two weeks ago to take the besieged rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area.
Eastern Ghouta is one of several "de-escalation" zones across western Syria, where Russia has brokered deals to ease the fighting between rebels and President Bashar al-Assad´s government. A Reuters witness said there had been drones in the sky since Sunday morning and warplanes had heavily bombarded the towns of Mesraba and Harasta.
Heavy shelling also hit Eastern Ghouta and dozens had been injured. Assad´s forces have besieged Eastern Ghouta since 2012 and the area is suffering a humanitarian crisis. Ghouta residents are so short of food that they are eating trash, fainting from hunger and forcing their children to eat on alternate days, the UN World Food Programme said in a report this week.
The opposition Eastern Ghouta Damascus Countryside local council said this week the escalating bombardment was forcing people to seek shelter in unsuitable and unsanitary places which it feared could lead to disease outbreaks.
A number of shells from the rebel enclave have hit government-held Damascus in the past two weeks. Syria´s six-year-old civil war has killed hundreds of thousands of people and forced millions to flee in the worst refugee crisis since World War Two.
UN-backed peace negotiations are due to begin in Geneva on Nov 28. Several previous rounds of Geneva talks have failed to agree a political transition for Syria or a way to stop the violence.

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