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U.S. military: 1,300 civilians killed in Syria, Iraq since 2014
By Nicholas Sakelaris
May 31 (UPI) -- U.S.-led fighting in Iraq and Syria have inadvertently killed more than 1,300 civilians over the last five years, U.S. military officials said Friday.
Operation Inherent Resolve said in a statement Friday the civilians were "unintentionally killed by coalition strikes" between 2014 and last month. It added coalition forces carried out 34,500 strikes during that period. Inherent resolve, which launched in mid-2014, is the U.S. military campaign fighting Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria.
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Monitoring group Airwars questioned the death toll Friday, suggesting the count is higher -- between 8,000 and 13,000. Airwars said last month 1,600 civilians were killed in air attacks on Raqqa, Syria, alone during the coalition's five-month campaign to drive Islamic State militants from the city.
Read more at: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2019/05/31/US-military-1300-civilians-killed-in-Syria-Iraq-since-2014/8831559314082/
I already read one account of someone from the region this morning that they weren't really bothered by whatever the figure is because we have been in a deadly fight vs. ISIS who indeed has been rolled back to where they are just guerillas, dangerous ones at that but still, just guerilla terrorists.
