US-Led Coalition Admits Killing About 940 Civilians in Operations in Syria, Iraq
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Strikes carried out by the US-led coalition fighting against Daesh [the Arabic acronym for ‘ISIS/ISIL'] terrorist group in Iraq and Syria have claimed lives of more than 930 civilians since August 2014, the Operation Inherent Resolve's Combined Joint Task Force admitted in a report on Thursday.
According to the document, the coalition conducted a total of 29,569 strikes in August 2014-May 2018, unintentionally killing 939 civilians since the start of the operations in Iraq and Syria.
Previously, the coalition's statistics claimed that up to 900 civilians were killed by its strikes since 2014.
However, London-based NGO Airwars estimated the US and its allies are responsible for at least 9,600 civilian deaths in their campaign against Daesh in Syria and Iraq.
The US and its allies have been fighting Daesh in Syria since 2014 without the approval of Damascus or a mandate from the UN Security Council. At the moment, about 2,000 US troops are deployed in Syria.
In its turn, the Syrian government called on Washington to pull its forces out of Syria, considering their presence to be a violation of the Syrian sovereignty.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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