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The Pentagon has admitted to killing 362 innocent civilians in Syria and Iraq in their pursuit of the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\n The Pentagon has admitted to killing 362 innocent civilians in Syria and Iraq in their pursuit of the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group.<\/p>\n
In a statement released on April 30, 2017, the Pentagon admitted that U.S. military forces have unintentionally killed hundreds of civilians since 2014.<\/p>\n
“We regret the unintentional loss of civilian lives… and express our deepest sympathies to the families and others affected by these strikes” the statement read.<\/p>\n
Air Wars, which monitors civilian deaths from international airstrikes in the region, has estimated that more than 3,000 civilians have been killed in Iraq and Syria in the same period.<\/p>\n
According to the Pentagon, investigations conducted during the month of March reveal that aerial attacks killed 45 civilians, mostly in and around Iraq’s northern city of Mosul.<\/p>\n
The Combined Joint Task Force said in its monthly assessment of civilian casualties that it was still assessing 42 reports of civilian deaths in the two countries.<\/p>\n
The force added that 45 civilians had been killed between November 2016 and March 2017.<\/p>\n
It has also reported 80 civilian deaths from August 2014 to the present that had not previously been announced.<\/p>\n
The military’s official tally is far below those provided by other groups.
The US Defense Department earlier said mid-September 2016 airstrikes had killed dozens of Syrian soldiers in the country’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr, with officials saying later that the attacks were based on wrong intelligence.<\/p>\n
On December 9, 2016, at least 90 Iraqi soldiers were killed when US Air Force warplanes struck their position in Mosul.<\/p>\n
The United States launched a campaign of airstrikes against Daesh in August 2014 after the terrorist group overran Mosul and parts of Iraq’s north and west.<\/p>\n
The US-led coalition has been conducting airstrikes against what are said to be the positions of Daesh terrorists inside Syria since September 2014 without any authorization from the Damascus government or a UN mandate.<\/p>\n
The coalition has repeatedly been accused of targeting and killing civilians. It has also been largely incapable of fulfilling its declared aim of destroying Daesh.<\/p>\n
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\n yogaesoteric The Pentagon has admitted to killing 362 innocent civilians in Syria and Iraq in their pursuit of the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group. In a statement released on April 30, 2017, the Pentagon admitted that U.S. military forces have unintentionally killed hundreds of civilians since 2014. “We regret the unintentional loss of civilian lives… and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-1602-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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