The US-led coalition has been backing the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Kurdish and Arab forces, to capture Manbij since last May.
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The council is allied to the US -backed Kurdish and Arab alliance known as the Syria Democratic Forces (SDF), which has been fighting Islamic State in northern Syria with the support of air strikes from a USA -led coalition.
“In order to protect civilian lives and property and to protect the town from destruction we announce that we accept the initiative under which besieged IS members would leave with their individual light weapons”, the statement added.
Ashton Carter, the USA defense secretary, was concerned about the continuing struggle to take back this part of Syria from Islamic State’s control.
The fighting around Manbij coincides with an uptick in fighting in the contested city of Aleppo, where government forces have encircled the eastern, rebel-held parts of the city, trapping hundreds of thousands of people inside.
The Post report cited a US statement that said 18 airstrikes had been carried out in the area between Monday and Tuesday.
“The bombing is constant”.
“In the past six weeks, and as violence has intensified, over 2,300 people were reportedly killed in the area, among them dozens of children”.
Officials said three separate airstrikes were conducted on three different militant tactical units in the Manbij area – a stronghold for the Islamic State terror group, also known regionally by the acronyms ISIS and ISIL.
“No matter where they are in Syria or under whose control they live – absolutely nothing justifies attacks on children”, Hanaa Singer, UNICEF representative in Syria, said in a statement.
“Even if the coalition forces believed that fighters from the armed group calling itself Islamic State were present around al-Tukhar, they should have taken the necessary precaution to identify who else was present to avoid or at least minimize civilian casualties”, Mughrabi said.
Separately on Thursday, the United Nations issued an urgent plea for weekly 48-hour truces in Aleppo, where at least a quarter of a million civilians are now trapped by a government siege.
“We also see indoctrination of the young by rewriting text books with the language of hate for those not following the prescribed Daesh (IS) way of life written into it”.
Unlike fights for the Iraqi cities of Fallujah and Ramadi, however, where Islamic State fighters fled as defeat appeared imminent, Garver said that as IS fighters become overrun in Manbij, they are falling back and reinforcing their positions, making it tougher to get into the city center. We have the supplies.
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Doctors Without Borders on Thursday called for the evacuation of war-wounded Syrians through Jordan’s sealed northern border.
