A fighter jet takes off from the deck of France's aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle in the eastern Mediterranean Sea on Dec 9, 2016, as part of the international coalition against the Islamic State group. (Photo: AFP/Stephane de Sakutin)
AFP: Four years of coalition strikes on Syria kill 3,300 civilians: monitor
BEIRUT (AFP) - More than 3,000 civilians have been killed in US-led coalition air strikes against the Islamic State group in Syria since they began four years ago, a monitor said on Sunday.
The Washington-led alliance puts the toll at just over 1,000 civilians in both Syria and neighbouring Iraq, and says it does all it can to prevent civilian deaths.
The coalition began bombing IS targets in Iraq in August 2014 after the jihadist group seized swathes of territory straddling the two countries, proclaiming an Islamic "caliphate".
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Update: Coalition airstrikes have killed over 3,000 civilians in Syria: NGO (Daily Sabah
WNU Editor: The battle for the Islamic State defacto capital at Raqqa was particularly brutal. These number do not surprise me.
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