WORLD BULLETINS

‘Civilians paying price for strikes’

THE UN’s human rights chief has appealed for more careful selection of military targets after a fresh wave of air strikes against Islamic State (IS) in eastern Syria reportedly killed at least 35 civilians, including women and children.

Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein said civilians are increasingly paying the price of escalating attacks against IS in the country.

His comments came hours after air strikes on the IS-held eastern Syrian town of Mayadeen, where air strikes on Thursday night killed dozens of people, many of them family members of IS fighters.

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the air strikes were conducted by the US-led coalition fighting IS.