...Arabic for
students...
and other snuffies in Afghanistan, the US Department of Defense said in an annual report to the US congress.
*YAWN*
Quoted by Washington Post, the department said that 42 civilians were confirmed to have been killed last year in the US-led operation against the Islamic State
...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....
in Iraq and Syria and two civilians died in operations against al-Shabaab
...
Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...in Somalia.
The department found no credible reports of civilian deaths caused by US operations in Libya or Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...last year, the report said.
A UN report from last month shows that 799 non-combatants were killed in the first quarter of this year while 303 of them were killed in pro-government forces operations which shows a 39 percent increase from the same period last year.
The UN attributed 17 percent of civilian casualties to the Afghan national security forces, 13 percent to international military forces, two percent to pro-government gangs, and two percent to multiple pro-government forces.
The report says that ground engagements were the leading cause of civilian casualties, causing approximately one-third of the total.
Contrary to 2017 and 2018 trends, the majority of IED civilian casualties were caused by non-suicide IEDs rather than suicide IEDs, the report says.
The US Forces- Afghanistan Spokesman, Col. Dave Butler, told TOLOnews on April 24 that the US and Resolute Support Forces in Afghanistan strive for precision in all their operations.