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US-led strikes against IS group kill 17 civilians in Syria's Raqqa: Monitor
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group's remaining territory in Syria's Raqqa city killed 17 civilians on Wednesday, including children, a monitor said. The coalition is providing air support in the form of heavy air strikes for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militia as it battles to oust IS group from its onetime stronghold. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based monitor, said the deaths on Wednesday followed two days of deadly strikes. Since Monday, the monitor said, 38 civilians have been killed in US-led air strikes on the city. Wednesday's deaths included five children, according to the monitor, which relies on a network of sources on the ground. The coalition says it takes measures to avoid civilian casualties and investigates credible allegations of civilian deaths. The United States has admitted that coalition strikes have killed 624 civilians in Syria and Iraq since 2014. But rights groups and monitors say the figure is exponentially higher than that. Posted by: trailing wife 2017-08-17 |
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