Call for protests over coalition strikes in Syria

The French Foreign Ministry has said it does not recognize figures released by the Syrian government and would wait for the results of the investigation into the airstrike.

Six civilians, including two brothers as well as a father and two of his children, were also killed in a strike on the nearby village of Tokhar, the group said.

Tuesday’s airstrike is not the first time the USA may have mistakenly targeted a civilian area.

The U.N.’s children agency is condemning the killing of children amid Syria’s ongoing civil war following brutal incidents in the country’s north.

She added that “both the opposition and [Syrian President Bashar] Assad’s regime put the death toll above 120 killed”.

Syria’s opposition has called for a halt in U.S.-led airstrikes while reports of civilian casualties are investigated.

Tuesday’s assault occurred near the target of another coalition strike on July 5, which the military said destroyed five militant positions.

In a separate incident on Sunday, the Observatory reported that coalition airstrikes killed six civilians in Manbij, “including a woman with four of her children and an old man”.

As many as 85 civilians are believed to have been mistaken for Islamic State fighters and killed in the operation north of the besieged IS-held city of Manbij.

The so-called Islamic State’s (IS) huge computer data, recently captured by the coalition, reveals how the group facilitates foreign fighter travel in and out of Iraq and Syria, the Pentagon said on Friday.

Although they were aware the convoy “may” have had civilians, the coalition conducted the strike but did not “initially strike that portion of the convoy”, Garver said.

Backed by airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition, Kurdish and Arab fighters with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance are trying to seize Manbij from ISIS.

French President Francois Hollande said on Thursday that he has no precise information on the French air forces’ responsibility for the civilian deaths in the Manbij area.

“We ask all Syrians, whatever their affiliations or sects, and all free people of the world and especially the people of Manbij to stand in solidarity with our devastated city on Sunday, July 24”, wrote one page that publishes local news about Manbij.

“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”.

The U.S., which has come under criticism for its failure in forging a proxy ground force against Islamic State, has been quick to tout the Syrian Democratic Forces’ success, despite complaints that the Kurdish-dominated force intends to assimilate territories under its control into an autonomous Kurdish entity on Syrian soil.