U.S.-led airstrike in Syria kills at least 100

AMMAN, Jordan — Warplanes of the U.S.-led coalition pounded an eastern Syrian city Thursday and Friday, killing more than 100 family members of Islamic State jihadists, activists and a monitoring group said. The U.N. condemned the escalating airstrike campaign on the northeastern provinces of the country.

Two coalition airstrikes — on Thursday evening and early Friday morning — on the city of Mayadeen, which lies on a segment of the Euphrates River that straddles Iraq and Syria, killed 106 people, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group with a network of activists in Syria.

"In these two days alone, coalition airstrikes on the city of Mayadeen killed 47 children, and the rest of the victims ... the vast majority were women." Rami Abdul Rahman, head of the group, said in a phone interview Friday.