It launched the campaign almost two months ago with the backing of USA special forces to drive Islamic State from its last stretch of the Syrian-Turkish frontier.
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Laptops and USB sticks found during heavy fighting around the Syrian town of Manbij in the past few weeks amounted to more than 4,500 gigabytes of computer memory, the officials said.
Kurdish fighters have been a key force battling the jihadists in north and northeastern Syria and are the main component in the Syrian Democratic Forces alliance now seeking to oust IS from Manbij.
The United States military has started a formal investigation into what officials are calling credible claims of civilian casualties from a us -led coalition airstrike in Manbij, Syria.
According to the Observatory, around 600 Syrians, including 136 children, have been killed in coalition air strikes since September 2014. The information was shared with the coalition, the Pentagon said.
The recovered textbooks offer more information than how ISIL plans attacks, he said, noting that ISIL-rewritten textbooks contain high-end math and science, and word problems rewritten into pro-ISIL language. Any intelligence that uncovers links about “external operations from Syria is a benefit to everybody”, Garver added.
The city is also a steppingstone for capturing Raqqa, the Islamic State’s de facto capital in Syria.
Woods is encouraged that the Pentagon has quickly acknowledged the reports of the deaths, but says it’s often six-months before a military probe is completed.
Syrian activists say USA -led coalition airstrikes targeting a village in northern Syria held by the Islamic State group killed 28 civilians, including seven children.
It is the biggest data seizure from the radical Islamist group since the USA special forces raid on its finance chief Abu Sayyaf in May 2015.
Army Col Christopher Garver, the chief spokesman for the US-led anti-ISIS coalition, implied that the non-combatant casualties may have been the result of ISIS using civilians as human shields.
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Simultaneously, an additional 15 strikes took place with the support of Iraqi forces in Iraq.
