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		</div><p>Air strikes by the US-led coalition have killed 28 civilians, including seven children, in a village in northern Syria held by the so-called &#8216;Islamic State&#8217; group, according to activists.</p>
<p>The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said coalition aircraft struck the village of Al-Ghandour last night.</p>
<p>The Observatory&#8217;s chief Rami Adurrahman said another 13 people were killed in the strikes but he could not say if they were &#8216;IS&#8217; fighters or civilians.</p>
<p>It was unclear if the Al-Ghandour attacks involved an air strike reported yesterday by US Central Command, which is responsible for US forces in the Middle East.</p>
<p>CentCom said the coalition had conducted air strikes around the nearby town of Manbij in the past 24 hours and was looking into reports of civilian casualties.</p>
<p>Al-Ghandour is 15 miles north west of Manbij, a key hub in IS&#8217;s Syria network and a supply route to its de facto capital of Raqqa.</p>
<p>The bombings came a week after air strikes, also blamed by Syrian activists on US aircraft, killed at least 56 civilians in IS-held territory in northern Syria.</p>
<p>The Manbij area has seen extensive battles between &#8216;IS&#8217; extremists and US-backed Kurdish-led fighters, who have been advancing under the cover of air strikes by the coalition. The town is encircled by Kurdish forces.</p>
<p>The Kurdish-led forces pulled another 1,000 civilians out of Manbij yesterday, according to Mustafa Bali, a local media activist in the town of Kobani.</p>
<p>&#8220;There has been a lot of pressure on the militants in Manbij,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the UN envoy for Syria has offered a &#8220;suggestion&#8221; to Russia over its proposal to set up humanitarian corridors around the northern city of Aleppo, advising Moscow leave the job to the United Nations.</p>
<p>Staffan de Mistura spoke to reporters in Geneva, a day after Russia said its forces and those of the Syrian government would open humanitarian corridors outside Aleppo and offer a way out for fighters wanting to surrender.</p>
<p>Mr de Mistura said he is awaiting clarification from Russian authorities about that plan amid an &#8220;urgent situation&#8221; in the northern city, hit by devastating violence in recent months.</p>
<p>The envoy also warned that &#8220;the clock is ticking for the Aleppo population&#8221;.</p>
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