Manbij Military Council forces,
part of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), drive a humvee as they
patrol the surrounding roads of in the northern Syrian town of Manbij on March
3, 2017. The Turkey-backed rebels launched their advance on Manbij on March 1,
initially seizing two villages but losing them to the SDF the following day.<br
/>DELIL SOULEIMAN / AFP
At least 11 civilians were killed
and dozens more wounded on Saturday in air strikes on a central Syrian village
that a monitor said were likely carried out by Russia.
“The raids targeted a livestock
market in the village of Oqayrabat, held by the Islamic State group in Hama
province,” said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human
Rights.
“They are probably Russian air
strikes,” he said, adding that 45 people were also wounded, Oqayrabat lies
northwest of Palmyra, the ancient desert city that was recaptured by
Russian-backed government forces from IS on Wednesday.
The road between the two
had been often used by jihadists to travel between the provinces of Hama and
Homs, where Palmyra lies.
Abdel Rahman said the raids on the village were part of “new
military operations by the Syrian regime and its Russian ally targeting
jihadist positions in Hama province”.
Syrian and Russian warplanes on Saturday were heavily bombing IS
jihadists north and east of Palmyra, which has changed hands several times in
Syria’s nearly six-year war.
IS overran the city for the second time on December 11. A day
later, 53 civilians were killed in a barrage of raids on Oqayrabat and other
nearby villages, according to the Observatory.
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
also raised fears at the time that chemical weapons may have been used in air
strikes on Oqayrabat.
The Observatory, which relies on a network of sources inside Syria
for its information, says it determines whose planes carry out raids according
to type, location, flight patterns and munitions used.
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