The attack targeting an Islamic State leader killed four civilians.
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It was the largest and deadliest attack to hit the city since the beginning of Syria’s conflict in March 2011.
The US has rejected calls by Syrian opposition figures after Tokkhar to halt the bombings for the sake of thousands of civilians trapped in Manbij, as it believes the fall of the city is critical to the overriding objective of capturing Raqqa.
Another allegation is from July 23 of a strike in the village of al-Nawaja, located to the east of Manbij, Garver said.
The information was captured in Manbij in Northern Syria after the terror group was pushed back from the city.
The SDF, backed by air strikes from a US-led coalition, launched an offensive to retake Manbij from ISIS on May 31.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 56 civilians, including 11 children, died as they fled from a village near Manbij, a strategic waypoint between Turkey and the jihadist stronghold of Raqa.
“And there, we’re already beginning to gain and exploit intelligence that’s helping us map their network of foreign fighters”, Carter said.
Activists and residents say dozens of civilians have been killed this month in air strikes in the city and to the north, and rights watchdog Amnesty International said the U.S.-led coalition must do more to prevent civilian deaths.
In a statement, the USA military confirmed that the airstrikes were carried out by the coalition in the area in the last 24 hours and said it would continue the investigation and then decide the next step.
Airwars, another London NGO, estimates that the worldwide airstrikes in Syria and Iraq have killed more than 1,500 civilians.
Thursday’s report said that in one instance, three civilians were killed in a strike on July 28, 2015 when their vehicle appeared in the target area after the plane had already fired its weapon, the military said.
Later in the day, the command said it was assessing another strike Thursday near Manbij, Syria, which may have resulted in additional civilian casualties.
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The U.S.-backed fighters – an alliance of Kurdish and Arab forces – have gathered more than 4 terabytes of digital information, and the material, most of it in Arabic, is now being analyzed by the U.S-led coalition fighting the militant group.
