At least 53 civilians have been killed in Russian air strikes in a village in east Syria, according to a Syrian monitoring group.
The air strikes reportedly hit the village of al-Shafah in Deir ez-Zur, one of the last provinces where ISIS still has territory. The terrorist group has been pushed out of its main stronghold in Raqqa.
Rami Abdel Rahman of SOHR told AFP that the death toll had increased after debris was removed when carrying out rescue operations.
He said the strikes had hit residential buildings in the village, which is on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River.
There have been no other reports to confirm civilian deaths.
Russia has been an ally of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad since 2015, along with Iran.
The United Nations is starting peace talks in Geneva on Tuesday, Nov. 28 in an attempt to find a solution to the war, which has so far claimed more than 400,000 lives.
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