BEIRUT – At least 47 civilians were killed Saturday in airstrikes targeting areas under the control of Islamic State in eastern Syria, a monitoring group said.
Jets, believed to be Russian, struck the area of Khsham on the eastern outskirts of the province of Deir al-Zour, said the head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdel- Rahman.
Those deaths bring to at least 91 the number of civilians killed since Friday in airstrikes in the province, according to the Britain-based observatory.
There was comment from the government in Damascus.
Islamic State controls most of Deir al-Zour and has besieging regime-held areas in the province for more than a year.
Russia, an ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad, launched an air campaign in Syria in September, saying its targets were Islamic State and other extremist groups operating there.
Separately, the United States has been leading an air campaign in the war-torn country since September 2014.
At least 4,272 people, including 315 civilians, have since been killed in airstrikes in Syria, the observatory reported on Saturday.
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