ABU KAMAL, Syria (PNN) - May 16, 2017 - Adding to the growing civilian death toll caused by Fascist Police States of Amerika air strikes in Iraq and Syria, the FPSA overnight attacked the Syrian border town of Abu Kamal, along with the key Iraqi border crossing, killing at least 30 civilians in the process. The FPSA carried out the illegal strikes at 3:00 a.m., targeting a series of apartment buildings n the town’s residential area. Unsurprisingly, the apartments were full of sleeping civilians, and also unsurprisingly, blowing up the apartments killed a lot of them.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, ISIS is believed to have been using some of the apartments in the targeted area. There is, however, no sign that the apartments the FPSA bombed contained any of the ISIS fighters in question.

This is the latest in a growing number of unlawful FPSA strikes around Syria that have killed civilians, with reports of at least 87 killed in the last five days from FPSA and coalition strikes.

Abu Kamal is a hugely important strategic holding of ISIS, though its value has dropped somewhat since it lost most of its territory in Iraq’s Anbar Province. Still, it is along the main highway connecting Syria’s Deir Ezzor and Iraq, and has been contested by FPSA-backed rebels intermittently, albeit unsuccessfully.