Deir ez-Zor Governorate

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The US-led coalition’s airstrikes on the Syrian eastern province of Deir Ez-Zor have claimed lives of seven civilians, including children and women, Syrian media reported Thursday.
The Sana news agency reported citing local sources that the airstrikes targeted residential areas in the province’s town of Mayadin.
According to the media outlet, the death toll could increase, as there is a number of injured people under the rubble.
READ MORE: US targets civilians in Syria (VIDEO)

Yesterday, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards launched a ballistic missile attack on terrorist targets in Syria’s Deir ez-Zor Governorate.
The attack on ISIS targets is of course legal as Iran is a member of the Syrian led anti-terrorist coalition which includes Russia. The attack also came as the Iranian and Chinese navies were conducting joint military drills in the Persian Gulf.
READ MORE: PERSIAN GULF: Chinese and Iranian Navies in joint drills

With Syrian, Kurdish SDF and US forces each inching closer to Raqqa by the day, the much anticipated ‘Battle of Raqqa’ may prove to be a Pyrrhic victory.
ISIS has occupied the Syrian city of Raqqa since 2013 and since then, the city has functioned as the self-proclaimed capital of the so-called Islamic State.
Now though, according to unnamed US defence sources cited by Fox News, Raqqa is rapidly being abandoned by not only ISIS commanders but also by ISIS ‘civil servants’.