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US forces conducted airstrikes in Iraq and Syria against five facilities the Pentagon says are tied to an Iranian-backed militia blamed for a series.
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They cannot be worse than Bashar's barrel bombs," said oil trader Ibrahim Fathallah, who sells low quality products to towns across the rebel-held northwestern Syria. They won't stop us for going on to earn a living for our families unless they bomb the hell out of us," he said.

While some local businessmen have made large profits from the illicit oil trade, many other civilians have come to depend on the informal market which sprung up since the start of Syria's conflict more than three years ago.

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It has been a major source of income for hundreds of thousands of families in rural areas of north and eastern Syria, where people have been displaced or lost jobs. The U. They were used as a hub for smuggling although traders say Turkey has clamped down on smugglers this year. Traders say the bombing of these larger refineries may have reduced processing capacity by percent but was not having any major impact on the domestic fuel market so far.

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Hundreds of smaller scale refineries are spread across swathes of insurgent-held land, making it difficult to hit them. They continue to refine the bulk of crude extracted, according to experts and traders. The refineries included the one run by trader Mazen Mukhtar, who said his was destroyed by a U. Tomahawk missile this week in a direct hit, turning his family's life savings into a heap of mangled metal and burnt crude oil. The Islamic State-run oil wells that supply it have been untouched.

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My Account. World globe An icon of the world globe, indicating different international options. Expand Damage to the Martyr Kiwan middle school from a Syrian-Russian airstrike on June 14, that killed eight civilians, including a child. Syrian opposition groups captured Tafas in August All the witnesses Human Rights Watch spoke to said that there were no fighters or other military objects in or near the areas that were attacked on June The opposition Free Syrian Army stated that it launched rocket and artillery attacks against Syrian army vehicles at a checkpoint in Khirbet Ghazala, about 15 kilometers east of Tafas, on June Abu Wesal shared photographs he took of the impact crater in the school courtyard, and of the remnants of the bomb used in that airstrike, but it is not possible to positively identify a specific type.

Both Abu Wesal and another civil defense worker who responded to the attacks said that all the bodies and wounded they evacuated were civilians, and that there was no military object at the school. Witnesses said they could not see the aircraft that dropped the bombs. A fixed-wing aircraft is briefly visible in a video posted online by Shahid , a local media organization, which the group described as footage of the first airstrike on Tafas. Two subsequent airstrikes hit the north and east of Tafas, causing minor injuries, a second civil defense worker said.

A Syrian nongovernmental humanitarian group, the Assistance Coordination Unit, found that 27 percent of the 3, schools it assessed in November and December in 90 subdistricts in Syria had been damaged due to the conflict. According to the UN, 1 in 3 children in Syria are out of school and 1 in 3 schools are not operating because they have been damaged, destroyed, used by military forces, or used to shelter displaced civilians. The June 14 attacks in Tafas At around noon on June 14, , an artillery attack killed Hiba al-Hasan, a year-old girl, and Mohamad al-Salkhadi, who was selling vegetables, near al-Omari square, a residential area in the middle of town, Abu Wesal and another civil defense worker in Tafas who responded to the attacks told Human Rights Watch separately.

Other artillery attacks hit areas in Tafas to the north and west at around the same time but without casualties, and attacks continued later in the day, the men said. Tafas has been subjected to repeated artillery attacks from government-held areas, witnesses said.

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Beginning at around 1 p. The first airstrike hit an open area immediately behind the Kiwan middle school, about meters south of the square hit by the earlier artillery strike. There were six bodies, amputated heads, amputated hands, amputated legs, not one was left intact.

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We tried to look for survivors and heard children screaming. They were […] stuck under mattresses and furniture. I swear, to this moment, the smell of blood and remains is stuck on the metal. The [bomb], when it fell, tore down the door, the metallic front gate of the school. We found one body with part of the door having pierced him from the chest onto his back. Something indescribable. The other seven people killed and wounded at the school were among roughly 15 members of an extended family who had been sheltering there since Syrian forces captured their hometown of Ataman, about 10 kilometers away, in February , said a resident who lives near the school.

Al-Hari died while in surgery due to shrapnel wounds in the head, chest, and stomach, according to a written statement from Tafas hospital. The aircraft conducted two other airstrikes shortly after hitting the school, witnesses said. The third strike wounded two children when it hit a former military barracks about 2.


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The fourth airstrike hit land next to a former cigarette warehouse which also shelters displaced people on the edge of Tafas without causing casualties. No mother.

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No father. Only his uncle, who was devastated. I went to visit him the next day as well, and offered some help.