On Wednesday, the USA military announced that it was pursuing a formal investigation into the July 19 airstrike in a northern Syrian city that observers estimate killed at least 73 civilians.
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The strikes hit a northern town controlled by the Islamic State jihadist group, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The U.S. Central Command said in a statement that it initiated an assessment after reports that Thursday’s airstrikes near Manbij may have resulted in civilian casualties.
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights chief Rami Adurrahman said another 13 people were killed in the strikes on Al-Ghandour, near the Turkish border, but he could not say if they were IS fighters or civilians.
Manbej has a strategic importance to the USA -backed rebels due to its location near to the Turkish border.
A US-led coalition’s probe found credible allegations about an airstrike that caused civilian deaths near Manbij, Syria, a Pentagon spokesman said Wednesday.
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Over the course of the past few weeks the USA -led coalition has conducted more than 520 airstrikes in the area and anti-ISIS forces have the town surrounded on the ground.
Of the four terabytes of digital information, Garver said: “We have learned more specifically about how Daesh received, trained, used and dispatched foreign terrorist fighters”.
The US confirmed that it conducted the airstrikes in Ghandour, but said it is still conducting a preliminary investigation into who was killed.
So we will seek to expand on the recent gains of our local, capable partners in Manbij City and along the Mar’a Line, to help them broaden their control over that key terrain.
Aspen, Colo. – A large trove of captured Islamic State records and computer files has provided new details of the extremist group’s efforts to send terrorists into Europe, according to senior US intelligence officials.
“It’s a fight like we haven’t seen before”, he said.
“It is a lot of material, it is going to take a lot to go through, then start connecting the dots and trying to figure where we can start dismantling ISIS”, he added.
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Information gleaned from social media, journalism and other public sources will inform the inquiry, Col Garver said, as will proprietary United States military information, such as geospatially located ordnance impacts.
