Warplanes belonging to the U.S.-led international coalition shelled residential neighborhoods in the countryside of Deir-ez-Zor with internationally banned white phosphorus, killing a number of civilians.
Sources said that three civilians were killed and five others were injured in the shelling, which targeted the outskirts of the town of Al-Sour in the northeastern countryside of the province.
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