Calls for suspension of US airstrikes after killing of 56 civilians
BEIRUT - The head of the opposition Syrian National Coalition called for a suspension of the US-led air campaign against ISIS in Syria while reports of dozens of civilian deaths from air strikes around the northern city of Manbij are investigated.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 56 civilians were killed in air strikes north of Manbij on Tuesday, a day after it said 21 civilians were killed in a northern district of the besieged ISIS- held city.
SNC president Anas al-Abdah said the strikes should be halted while the incidents were investigated, according to a statement issued late on Wednesday, and warned that the killing of civilians by the US-.-led air campaign would "prove to be a recruitment tool for terrorist organisations".
