Manbij District

The International Coalition fighting against the Islamic State terrorist group in Iraq and Syria under the auspices of the United States has admitted that it is responsible for the murder of 620 civilians, while the last few blows killed 21 people. Reported BGNES.

U.S.-backed forces battling to oust the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) from its Syrian bastion Raqqa have advanced in the city's south, seizing a new neighborhood, a spokesman and monitor said on Aug. 1.

A U.S.-backed Syrian opposition force said on June 11 that it had captured a northwestern neighborhood of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) self-declared capital of Raqqa, making it the second district to fall into their hands in as many days after the group launched a wide offensive to gain control of the extremists' de facto capital.

U.S.-backed fighters gained ground against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the streets of Raqqa on June 7, a day after their months-long offensive finally broke into the jihadists' Syrian bastion.

A coalition air strike accidentally killed 18 members of a U.S.-backed Arab-Kurdish alliance fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) near a key town in northern Syria, the U.S.-led coalition said on April 13.

Forces such as Apache helicopters, U.S. Marine artillery and special operation troops were part of a U.S.-led coalition operation to air drop Syrian militia into an area near the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's (ISIL) stronghold Raqqa, a U.S. official said on March 22. 

The United States has increased its forces near the northern Syrian town of Manbij as concerns have grown that fighting could erupt among the complex array of militias and Syrian and Turkish troops who are operating on the crowded battlefield near there.

The top U.S. military commander for the Middle East made a secret trip to northern Syria on Feb. 24 to meet a U.S.-backed alliance fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), officials said.

General Joseph Votel, who heads U.S. Central Command (Centcom), met with leaders from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

The United States has provided an alliance of Syrian Kurdish and Arab fighters battling the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) with armored vehicles for the first time, a U.S. official and a spokesman for the anti-jihadist force stated on Jan. 31.

A U.S.-backed coalition of Syrian Kurdish Arab fighters fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria has received U.S. armored vehicles for the first time and a promise of new American support, a coalition spokesman said on Jan. 31.