Daesh executes 24 civilians after seizing Syria village

It said another 13 people were killed in the strikes, but that it was unclear if they were IS fighters or civilians.

But Cook vowed the air war would continue in Manbij, a key city that sits along a supply route between the terrorists’ de facto capital of Raqqa and the outside world through Turkey.

– 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.

Col. Garver said the formal investigation could include interviewing victims’ family members or witnesses that have spoken with rights groups and comparing that information with coalition knowledge on where and when they carried out strikes.

Information gleaned from social media, journalism and other public sources will inform the inquiry, Col Garver said, as will proprietary U.S. military information, such as geospatially located ordnance impacts.

Around 600 Syrians including 136 children have been killed in coalition air strikes since September 2014, according to an Observatory toll.

The Pentagon says it’s investigating what could be its deadliest strike on civilians in Syria since its anti-ISIS campaign began two years ago.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday offered an amnesty to armed rebels battling his forces if they surrender, the official SANA news agency reported.

“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.

Aleppo’s Castello Road is a major channel into the divided northern city. Woods provided that estimate before Thursday’s announcement.

The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to fears of reprisal attacks, said the airstrike directly targeted a concentration of civilians in the main market of the village; Daesh militants were said to be nowhere near the attack site.

Although one United States official called it “a change in name only”, the move complicates the American proposal to limit the Russians and Syrians to targeting only al-Nusra and ISIL.

The US military has launched a formal investigation into the bombing, but has not said how many deaths it is investigating, reports the Guardian.