FILE PHOTO:Members of an internally displaced family, who fled Raqqa, are pictured at a makeshift refugees camp in Tawayneh, west of Raqqa, Syria August 18, 2017. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra/File Photo
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Amnesty International said on Thursday a U.S.-led coalition campaign to oust Islamic State from Syria's Raqqa had killed hundreds of civilians, and those remaining face greater risk as the fight intensifies in its final stages.
The rights group also said Russia-backed Syrian government forces had carried out indiscriminate attacks against civilians, reported to have included cluster and barrel bombs, in a separate campaign against the militants south of Raqqa city.
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