Also Friday, Syrian activists said a USA -led coalition airstrike targeting a village in northern Syria held by the Islamic State group had killed 28 civilians the previous night, including seven children.
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Al-Ghandour is near Manbij.
“U.S. Central Command initiated an assessment following internal operational reporting that a strike today near Manbij, Syria may have resulted in civilian casualties”, the military said in a statement.
The anti-Islamic State US-led coalition said last week it was investigating another report of civilian casualties in an air strike near Manbij.
– On July 28, 2015, near Idlib, Syria, during a strike on a senior Khorasan Group adviser, it is assessed that three civilians were killed and one vehicle destroyed when their vehicle appeared in the target area after the coalition aircraft released its weapon.
Manbej has a strategic importance to the USA -backed rebels due to its location near to the Turkish border.
The US military has opened a formal investigation into a July 19th air strike in northern Syria that local and outside observers consider the deadliest coalition attack on civilians in its war against Isis.
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He also updated reporters about the fight against Daesh in and around Manbij, a key city which Syrian Arab Coalition, and some other elements under the umbrella of Syrian Democratic Forces try to capture from the militant group.
The U.N. special envoy for Syria on Friday urged Russian Federation to leave the creation of humanitarian corridors around Aleppo to the United Nations and its partners, issuing a gentle snub to Moscow, which had made the proposal a day earlier as pro-government troops tightened their encirclement of rebel-held parts of the northern Syrian city.
“We can confirm the Coalition conducted airstrikes in the area in the last 24 hours”, it stated.
The SDF, backed by air strikes from a US-led coalition, launched an offensive to retake Manbij from ISIS on May 31. There were no confirmed reports of casualties. Chris Wood, director of the United Kingdom -based AirWars, described it as “likely the worst reported civilian toll of any coalition attack since the bombing campaign against ISIS began almost two years ago”.
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“We will continue to work hard every day to execute our mission, while doing our best to minimize the risk to innocent civilians, and to be transparent and accountable about those efforts”, Cook said.
