A US-backed offensive to retake ISIS-held northern Syrian city of Manbij has displaced some 20,000 civilians and could uproot about 216,000 more if it continues, a UN humanitarian agency said on Monday. Syrian fighters have surrounded Manbij from three sides as they press the onslaught against the militants near the Turkish border, a spokesman for … Continue reading Russian warplanes did not hit the Syrian town of Ashara in the eastern province of Deir al-Zor