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US-led coalition says it killed 1,319 civilians in anti-IS war | ||
2019-06-29 | ||
[Rudaw] The US-led coalition said Thursday it had unintentionally killed at least 1,319 civilians in strikes during its fight against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group in Iraq and Syria since 2014.
The figure is far lower than the corpse counts given by groups that have monitored the conflict in the two countries. "The coalition conducted 34,514 strikes between August 2014 and the end of May 2019," it said in a statement.
The coalition, which has repeatedly insisted it does all it can to avoid civilian deaths, said it was still assessing 159 additional reports of civilian casualties. Airwars, an NGO that monitors civilian casualties from air strikes worldwide, estimates more than 8,000 civilians have been killed in coalition raids. In a report released in late April, | ||
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