The air strikes and artillery fire (Friday night) by the international coalition on the village of Hidaj, held by IS in the southern sector of Hasakeh province, killed at least 12
On Thursday, eight other were killed in coalition strikes in Deir Ezzor province, south of Hasakeh.
IS jihadists have lost most of the self-proclaimed “caliphate” they once controlled in large parts of Syria and neighbouring Iraq since 2014.
In Deir Ezzor, the mainly Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces -- supported by the US-led coalition -- are trying to dislodge IS from the east bank of the Euphrates.
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US forces must withdraw from the Tanf base in the south, and that Damascus had not engaged in talks over the country's southern region.
Walid Al-Moualem also told a news conference that the government had communicated with the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) but no negotiation process had started.
He said Raqqa city, which SDF militias control, "must be rebuilt and liberated" from any foreign presence.