A couple and their five children were killed overnight in Syria’s Northern Aleppo province in strikes by the US-led coalition, a report said on Monday.
The London-based Syrian opposition group, Syrian Human Rights Observatory, said the family was killed in a coalition strike on the village of Daly Hassan, in the Northeast of Aleppo province, AFP reported.
Their deaths “bring the number of Syrian civilians killed in coalition air strikes since September 23 to 148, including 48 children and 32 women,” the monitor said.
In May, the Observatory reported at least 64 civilians — nearly half of them children — had been killed in US-led air strikes in the village of Birmahle in Aleppo province.
The Pentagon has generally denied that US-led coalition strikes have killed any civilians, despite persistent reports of numerous civilian deaths.
An ISIL convoy moving from Beiji region in Salahuddin province towards Mosul came under attack by Iraqi fighter jets, sources said, adding that dozens of ISIL terrorists were killed during the air raid.
In addition to the destruction of ISIL vehicles, the airstrikes killed 20 terrorists, including Abushamel al-Checheni, the ringleader responsible for recruiting foreign ISIL terrorists, Iraqi sources told the Arabic-language Soumaria news.
Other reports also said that the Iraqi troops backed by Shiite volunteer forces took back key parts of the Northern refinery town of Beiji from ISIL terrorists on Sunday and captured 12 Takfiri militants, some 155 miles (250 kilometers) North of Baghdad.
Also on Monday, the Iraqi volunteer forces destroyed a strategic base of the Takfiri ISIL terrorists in a special operation in Nineveh province.
A group of special forces of Iraqi resistance troops raided and destroyed ISIL’s main base in Nineveh province in Haman al-Alil district in the city of Nineveh.
Tens of ISIL terrorists, including their commander, were killed in the Iraqi forces’ raid on Hamam al-Alil.
Nineveh is an ancient Mesopotamian city on the eastern bank of the Tigris River in Nineveh province.
The ISIL Takfiri terrorists currently control shrinking swathes of Syria and Iraq. They have threatened all communities, including Shiites, Sunnis, Kurds, Christians, Ezadi Kurds and others, as they continue their atrocities in Iraq.
Senior Iraqi officials have blamed Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and some Persian Gulf Arab states for the growing terrorism in their country.
Hezbollah Deputy Leader Sheikh Naeem Qassem underlined that the Lebanese resistance movement will continue fighting against the Takfiri terrorists in Arsal border region.
“We will continue our battle in Arsal hilltops until uprooting the last terrorist in that region, but (protecting) the security of the city of Arsal is the duty of the Lebanese government that needs to be fulfilled,” the Lebanese Elnashra news website quoted Sheikh Qassem as saying on Monday.
The Lebanese deputy chief, meantime, pointed to the regional crises created by the West, and said, “The western countries are good at creating crises, but they are unsuccessful when it comes to ending them.”
On Sunday, the Hezbollah fighters regained full control over strategic hilltops in Arsal barrens.
The Qarna al-Tanour hilltop in Arsal border region was purged of al-Nusra terrorists by Hezbollah fighters, the Arabic-language al-Manar TV reported.
The Lebanese resistance forces are continuing their advances and heading towards Harf al-Daboul triangle in Southeastern Arsal mountainous area.
On Saturday, a source said that Hezbollah pushed back al-Nusra terrorists from the Southern border town of Arsal and seized control of a key area.
A senior Lebanese military official, preferring anonymity, said that the fighters of Hezbollah managed to recapture the al-Rahwah crossing from the control of the Takfiri terrorists after killing large groups of them.
The source added dozens of the al-Nusra terrorists fled the battlefield as they failed to resist the fire power of the Lebanese group.