US-backed Kurdish groups kill 10 civilians in Syria’s Deir ez Zor province
U.S.-backed Kurdish groups killed 10 civilians while trying to retake control of the Deir al-Zor provincial center in eastern Syria.
They had been expelled from the area by local tribes.
On Nov. 27, the Deir ez-Zor provincial center was handed over by the regime of former president Bashar al-Assad to the Kurdish group PKK/YPG.
But they were later pushed out.
A video of the attack posted on social media by civilians shows the groups opening fire at civilians on the street from the minaret of a mosque, leaving people covered in blood.
Almost all of Deir ez-Zor’s territory east of the Euphrates River was under the group’s occupation.
The provincial center and other rural areas were under the control of the al-Assad regime and Iranian-backed groups.