DAMASCUS: A  war monitor revealed that 600 people were killed in Syria's northern province of Raqqa between June and October 2017 as a result of US-led airstrikes targeting Islamic State (IS) strongholds.

According to sources, US-led bombings in Raqqa, the former de facto capital of the Islamic State, killed 600 individuals from 140 families over the period of four months, according to a report published on the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights' website on Tuesday.

Their bodies were found when mass graves were uncovered after the Islamic State was defeated in Raqqa, according to the report.

According to the UK-based observatory, the overall number of people killed by US-led airstrikes is much higher, as evidenced by the 28 mass graves housing more than 6,000 bodies. The majority of the victims were killed during US-led airstrikes targeting IS positions in Raqqa between 2014 and 2018, while the rest were killed by the IS after it captured Raqqa in 2014.

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