(Previous Incident Code: S837)

Between four and five civilians died and another six were wounded in Coalition airstrikes and an artillery bombardment on Raqqa, according to local sources.

According to Shaam, “Violent battles continue in and around the city of Raqqa between the state organization [IS] and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), during which the SDF was able to control the Romanian quarter and parts of the industrial district. The Romanian quarter is the second neighborhood to be controlled after the Mashbal district. The armed forces carried out air strikes on the city of Raqqa and its environs in the midst of heavy artillery shelling, which resulted in the deaths of many of the martyrs and wounded among the civilians.”

Euphrates Post reported “heavy artillery shells, in conjunction with air raids targeting the northern outskirts of the city”, while other sources mentioned both US artillery and “YPG artillery”.

Baladi said that the SDF targeted a building on 23rd February Street, with “sources indicating three martyrs from one family and a fourth unidentified.” However, the Coalition has confirmed that only it was conducting artillery strikes on the city in this period.