Local sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Syria’s official news
agency SANA on Friday that 20 people were killed when US-led warplanes bombarded
residential buildings in al-Baghuz al-Tahtani village.
The US-led coalition has been conducting airstrikes against what are said to be
Daesh targets inside Syria since September 2014 without any authorization from
the Damascus government or a UN mandate.
The military alliance has repeatedly been accused of targeting and killing
civilians. It has also been largely incapable of achieving its declared goal of
destroying Daesh.
Syria has on numerous occasions condemned airstrikes by the US-led coalition,
asking the UN to force Washington and its allies to put an end to their military
intervention in the Arab country.
On November 13, the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates stated
that continued airstrikes by the US-led coalition against ordinary people and
civilian targets show the alliance’s reckless disregard for the UN Charter as
well as international law.
The ministry, in two separate letters addressed to UN Secretary General Antonio
Guterres and the rotating president of the Security Council Francisco Antonio
Cortorreal, said that the crimes being perpetrated by the US-led coalition
attested to the fact that the alliance had only sought to nurture Daesh and help
it expand.
The ministry then called on the UN Security Council to shoulder its
responsibilities, and adopt immediate and effective measure to stop US-led
airstrikes, mass killings and systematic destruction of Syria’s infrastructure.
It also demanded the establishment of an independent and impartial international
mechanism to investigate the crimes, punish the perpetrators and compensate the
families of victims.
The letters highlighted that the continued silence of the Security Council
against these attacks, neglect of its responsibilities to maintain international
peace and security and its inaction to prevent war crimes and crimes against
humanity would lead to a very disturbing culture of impunity and would thus
undermine the Council, the UN General Assembly and other major world bodies.
Source:PressTV