3,301 civilians killed in Us-led strikes in Syria since 2014, monitor says

U.s.-led coalition strikes on Islamic Stateheld areas in Syria since 2014 have killed nearly 12,000 people, including more than 3,300 civilians, a war monitor said Sunday.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 3,331 civilians — among them 826 children — were killed, of a total of 11,846 people.

Thousands of others were wounded in the coalition strikes that began in Syria on Sept. 23, 2014, said Rami Abdel Rahman, the head of the Britain-based watchdog group.

The U.s.-led coalition was formed in August 2014 after Islamic State took over large parts of Syria and Iraq. female president with the appointment of Vice President Nguyen Thi Ngoc Thinh after Tran Dai Quang died Friday.

Thinh will be the acting president until the National Assembly elects a new leader. Thinh has been vice president since April 2016.

Vietnam will observe a mourning period Wednesday and Thursday to honor Quang. Quang, who was 61, was one of the country’s top four leaders, with the general secretary of the Communist Party, prime minister and head of the National Assembly.

A former minister of public security who supported forging closer ties with the U.S. and boosting the nation’s private sector, Quang hosted U.S. President Donald Trump during his first state visit to the communist country last year.

Under Vietnam’s constitution, the vice president becomes acting president if the president dies in office until the National Assembly chooses a permanent replacement. The assembly’s second one-month session of the year opens Oct. 22.

– Appeal-democrat news services