BEIRUT – A prominent Syrian activist group monitoring its civil war says U.S.-led airstrikes in the country have killed over 900 people since September, including many fighters of the militant Islamic State group, though some civilians as well.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Saturday that the U.S.-led airstrikes have killed 785 militants of the extremist Islamic State group. It said the strikes also have killed 72 militants of Syria’s al-Qaida’s affiliate, the Nusra Front.
The Observatory, which observers believe provides the conflict’s most accurate death tolls, said the U.S.-led strikes also killed 52 civilians, including eight women and five children.
A U.S.-led coalition began striking the Islamic State group in late September in Syria after targeting the group in Iraq.
Activists say Syria’s civil war has killed over 200,000 people.
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