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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region--Russian and Syrian airstrikes have reportedly killed scores of civilians in Syria’s eastern, largely Islamic State (ISIS)-occupied, province of Deir Ezzor. Meanwhile the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) continue to press ahead with their offensive against ISIS militants in the key northwestern city of Manbij.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that Russian and Syrian airstrikes on the town of al-Qurayyah in Deir Ezzor province on Saturday killed at least 31 civilians. They estimate that the number of casualties is expected to rise as there are more than 20 deceased who are still unidentified.It is unknown at this time if any ISIS militants are among the deceased.This development comes shortly after Russia and Syria bombed ISIS’s Raqqa city stronghold in retaliation for the militants successfully repelling a Syrian ground offensive into the province of Raqqa last week killing at least 40 Syrian soldiers and supporting militiamen. The airstrikes on Raqqa killed at least 18 civilians.In the north of the country, Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) advanced, with US-led coalition air support, further into the ISIS-occupied city of Manbij where they have captured the city’s grain silos, putting them at an advantageous position over the city’s ISIS occupiers.If the SDF are able to capture Manbij, then ISIS will be completely cut off from the Turkish border. Consequently the group has sent many militants to try and hold Manbij.An ISIS landmine on the Manbij-Khrijah road killed ten civilians on Saturday, including seven children, the Observatory reported. An elderly man was also killed and others were wounded in a US-led coalition airstrike on the city Saturday.To date the SDF offensive against Manbij, which began over three weeks ago, has killed an estimated 463 ISIS militants with a loss of 89 SDF fighters. The fighting has also displaced hundreds of civilians in Manbij, some of whom were shot by ISIS militants as they tried to flee.The number of civilians, mainly Kurdish, abducted by the militants in the Manbij countryside is now more than one thousand, according to latest figures from the Observatory. The civilians are being forced to work for the Islamic State, including digging trenches, and it is expected they will be used as human shields.