US to Keep Bombing Syria Despite Civilian Deaths and Humanitarian PleasBy Nadia Prupis The Guardian reports: Anas Alabdah, president of the Syrian National Coalition, has called on the U.S. to suspend its airstrikes until it performs a thorough investigation into the attack near the contested northern city of Manbij on Tuesday that Syrian activists say killed at least 73 civiliansand possibly more than 125. [.] The U.S. has launched at least 12 airstrikes since the destruction in the village of Tokkhar, according to a daily tally released by the military. Asked by the Guardian if the military will pause airstrikes, Army Colonel Christopher Garver, chief spokesman for the U.S. military command in Iraq and Syria, replied: No. Operations continue against Daesh, another name for ISIS. The escalation in violence follows U.S.-backed Syrian fighters giving ISIS militants 48 hours to leave Manbij as part of a last-ditch effort to protect civilian lives, the Associated Press reports. UNICEF estimated this week that 35,000 children are trapped in and around Manbij with nowhere safe to go. In the past six weeks, and as violence has intensified, over 2,300 people were reportedly killed in the area, among them dozens of children. We deplore all forms of violence and urge all parties to the conflict in Syria to make every effort to avoid the loss of civilian lives, the group said. The AP continues: Stephen OBrien, the U.N.s emergency relief coordinator, said he is gravely alarmed by developments in eastern Aleppo. Food in east Aleppo is expected to run out by the middle of next month, he warned. The news also comes as the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) warns that the situation in Aleppo, Syrias largest city, is devastating and overwhelming, with every neighborhood coming under heavy fire in recent days. We hear that dozens of civilians are being killed every day and scores more injured from shells, mortars and rockets. The bombing is constant. The violence is threatening hundreds of thousands of peoples lives, homes and livelihoods, said Marianne Gasser, head of the ICRCs Syria delegation, in a statement on Thursday. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. Nadia Prupis is a staff writer for CommonDreams.org, where this article first appeared. Amazing how the US gets to kill innocent bystanders with impunity and on one complains, while these terrorist loners who shoot up or otherwise kill innocent bystanders, get killed. The Talmudic corporation formerly known as the United States invaded a sovereign nation to facilitate their owners greater Israel Project. The human stains are so confident in their and their god Lucifers control over his world theyre fast dropping all attempts to appear righteous or benevolent. When they poke the Russian Bear a bit too hard and WW3 begins, remember who are the victims and who are the oppressors. Great post. See you on Br. N. Definitely! They are in the way of a natural gas pipeline, that is the only reason you are there destroying the place! 