A plume of smoke rises above a building during an air strike in Tikrit March 27, 2015. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani
Reuters: U.S.-led fight on Islamic State killed more than 1,100 civilians: Pentagon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 1,100 civilians have been killed in U.S.-led strikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria since the operation began in 2014, the U.S. military said on Thursday.
The coalition fighting Islamic State militants said in a statement that during the month of August it had determined that an additional 53 civilians had been killed unintentionally, bringing the total to at least 1,114 civilian deaths since August 2014.
The military’s official tally is far below those of outside organizations. The monitoring group Airwars says at least 6,575 civilians have been killed by coalition strikes.
Twenty civilians were killed in a strike on Islamic State “fighting positions,” explosives factory and a command and control center in May 2017 near Mosul, Iraq, the coalition said.
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Update: US military: At least 1,100 civilians killed by coalition since start of ISIS war (The Hill)
WNU Editor: Everyone believes this number is much higher.
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Still lower than the # of civilians killed by the Russian in the city of Grozny alone.
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