SDF forces announced on March 23 they had fully captured the Islamic State group's last bastion in eastern Syria and declared the total elimination of the ISIS territory. AFP
The National: Anti-ISIS coalition admits 1,257 civilians killed since 2014
The coalition's Operation Inherent Resolve has reclaimed all ISIS territory.
The US-led coalition battling ISIS in Syria and Iraq admitted on Thursday that at least 1,257 civilians had been killed in air strikes since Operation Inherent Resolve began in 2014.
The international coalition said it had conducted 34,038 strikes between August 2014 and the end of February this year.
"At least 1,257 civilians have been unintentionally killed by Coalition strikes since the beginning of Operation Inherent Resolve," it said.
The coalition also announced that it had received 147 reports of possible civilian casualties and reviewed only one, in February, which it found to be credible.
That report refers to a September 13, 2017 bombing on a munitions factory near Rawa, Iraq. Two civilians were wounded, the coalition said.
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Update: US-led coalition: 1,257 civilians killed in anti-IS strikes (FOX News/AP)
WNU Editor: No one knows for sure on how many civilians have died.
6 comments:
It must be one of the worst, unfair deaths. No one ever gets to hear your story, and often your remains are, well, not open casket suited, so there's no chance for a last look, a last goodbye - if you even had the luck to have family or friends who survived. It's just so wrong that civilians - on whatever side - get to end up and die like this. And until we live in peace, millions and perhaps billions more will follow like this over the centuries or even Millennia it seems to take humans to figure it out
That's actually very low and shows the due diligence shown
it's only a low number as long as it's not one of your family members or yourself
Yeah that's obvious but in the perspective of War it is low ,wanna talk civillian casualties look up Dresden.
I know. .Dresden was fire bombed. And didn't mean to criticise the US. Just getting old and war seems just like a thing we humans like to do. Some get caught up in it and get killed just for being in the wrong place. Not even moving into a danger zone but perhaps being born there and war comes to visit you.
Some of those killed were ISIS relatives, who were active participants.
Women were involved in ISIS atrocities and military activities.
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