Monitoring group says at least 63 people killed in Khasham town near Deir Az Zor, which is mostly controlled by ISIL

25 Jan 2016 – At least 63 people, including nine children, have died in air strikes believed to have been carried out by Russian warplanes on a town in eastern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has said.
The raids on Khasham near the city of Deir Az Zor on Saturday were among a series of strikes that also hit two other towns in the past 48 hours, killing scores of people, the monitoring group said on Sunday.
At least 4,272 people, including 315 civilians, have since been killed in air strikes in Syria, the Observatory said.
More than 250,000 people are estimated to have been killed in Syria’s conflict since it started with peaceful anti-government protests in March 2011.​​​​​​​​​