Syrian activists: US-led coalition strikes kill 28 civilians

He added that “this administration, the United States government takes all measures during the targeting process to avoid or minimalizing civilian casualties”.

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.

The SDF, backed by airstrikes from the so-called US-led anti-Daesh coalition, launched an offensive to retake Manbij from Daesh on May 31.

― Reuters picWASHINGTON, July 29 ― The US military is investigating reports that an air strike near Manbij, Syria, yesterday caused civilian casualties, US Central Command said in a statement.

A Syrian man reacts as rescuers look for victims under the rubble of a collapsed building following a reported air strike on the rebel-held neighborhood of Sakhur in Aleppo on July 19, 2016.

Woods says the group has cataloged the names of 74 civilians – including children – killed last week, identifying them through five separate sources as local residents.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said airstrikes in Kafr Takhareem village in rural Idlib hit a hospital and a center for civil defense volunteers.

“It’s important to contrast the seriousness with which we treat these issues, the care we take to protect innocent lives and our accountability and transparency with the enemy that we are fighting”, Cook said. We think there’s a big problem around Manbij, a lot of civilians reportedly being killed and we think any lessons to be learned from Tokhar need to be applied tactically right now. According to Airwars, an independent monitoring organization, USA and Russian airstrikes have likely killed hundreds of civilians.

The town lies 23 kilometres (14 miles) northwest of Manbij, a strategic waypoint between Turkey and the jihadist stronghold of Raqa.

The airstrikes targeted the town of Ghandur in the countryside of the town of Manbej, which has seen several strikes by the U.S.-led anti-terror coalition.

In another strike on April 26 near Qayyarah in Iraq, one civilian died when a motorcycle “unexpectedly appeared in the target area after the U.S. aircraft had already released its weapon”, Centcom said.

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