More than sixty people are reported to have been killed in air strikes on an Islamic State-controlled Iraqi town that is close to the Syrian border.
Witnesses said unidentified jets had targeted the centre of al-Qaim, about three hundred kilometer north-west of Baghdad, late on Wednesday afternoon.
The witnesses added that one strike had missed a mosque used by Islamic State militants as a headquarters and hit residential buildings.
Reports say nineteen children and twelve women were among the casualties.
The Islamic State-affiliated Amaq news agency published video purportedly showing the aftermath of what it called a massacre perpetrated by Iraqi aircraft in al-Qaim.
The footage showed vehicles on fire on a main road lined with shops, damaged buildings, and the bodies of several children.
It said that more than one hundred and twenty people had been killed in the air strikes
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