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<h1 id="reader-title">US-Led Coalition Kills over 1,000
Civilians in Iraq and Syria</h1>
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class="subtitle">Since August 2014, the U.S. and its
allies have carried out more than 10,800 airstrikes, but
only admitted to killing up to 21 civilians.</p>
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<p>The U.S.-led air campaign against the Islamic State
group in Iraq and Syria has likely killed more than
1,000 civilians over the last 18 months, according to
figures released Wednesday by a monitoring group. </p>
<p>Since August 2014, the U.S.-led coalition has carried
out more 10,800 airstrikes, with coalition officials
claiming to have killed more than 25,000 militants.
However, according to the group Airwars, those strikes
have exacted a high civilian toll, with somewhere
between 1,000 and 1,400 civilians having “likely” been
killed, inits assessment, and as many as 2,961 civilians
alleged to have died. </p>
<p>The U.S. has admitted to killing as many as 21
civilians. Its 11 allies in the coalition have not
admitted to killing any civilians. </p>
<p>Chris Woods, director of Airwars and a former BBC
journalist, told teleSUR earlier this year that “the
U.S. and its allies are still majorly under-reporting
the numbers of civilians they are killing.” </p>
<p>More than 500 civilians have been “credibly reported
killed” in Iraq by the U.S.-led coalition, which
includes France, Britain, Australia, Denmark, Belgium,
Canada and the Netherlands. </p>
<p>In Syria, there has been an average of four alleged
civilian casualty events every week, according to
Airwars, and 22 in February 2016 alone, which the group
says “may be linked to less restrictive rules of
engagement.” In total, “between 504 and 697 civilians
are likely to have been killed in coalition airstrikes.”
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<p>Russia, meanwhile, “is likely to have killed four times
that number in just five months,” according to Airwars'
analysis. Like 11 of 12 members of the U.S.-led
coalition, Russia denies killing any innocents. </p>
<p>Kinda Haddad, Airwars lead researcher for Syria, said
all the countries bombing Syria are aiding extremism. </p>
<p>“As long as we give Middle Eastern lives less value
than our own, we will keep on feeding the hatred and
suspicion that nihilistic groups like ISIS capitalize on
to recruit the young and vulnerable,” she said. </p>
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