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03-16-2018, 07:00 PM
While many top media headlines are about Stormy Daniel sex scandal, don't recall news like this making top headline in recent weeks/months in US media owners programming:
Civilian Casualties Soared in Iraq and Syria in 2017. Was Trump’s Bloodthirsty Rhetoric to Blame? (https://theintercept.com/2018/02/22/civilian-casualties-soared-in-iraq-and-syria-in-2017-was-trumps-bloodthirsty-rhetoric-to-blame/)
After three years of brutal fighting, the U.S.-led war against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria is winding down, the U.S. military announced on Thursday, saying the coalition has “liberated” more than 98 percent of the area formerly controlled by ISIS, or Daesh, freeing “7.7 million Iraqis and Syrians once held under brutal Daesh rule.”
By all accounts, this victory has come at a huge cost to civilians, but how huge depends on who you ask. The U.S.-led coalition says it conducted 29,070 strikes between August 2014 and January 2018, killing “at least 841civilians.”
But that figure is much lower than independent estimates, raising questions about the conduct of the war and its disproportionate impact on Iraqi and Syrian civilians. According to reporting by the nonpartisan monitoring group Airwars, between 6,136 and 9,315 civilians have died in coalition strikes since 2014, with death tolls spiking sharply in 2017. A recent New York Times investigation on airstrikes in Iraq (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/11/16/magazine/uncounted-civilian-casualties-iraq-airstrikes.html) also found drastic underreporting of civilian casualties in official statistics, with thousands of civilian casualties undocumented by official figures.
In its annual assessment issued last month, Airwars found that 2017 was the deadliest year for civilians in Iraq and Syria, with between 3,923 and 6,102 civilians killed in strikes conducted by the U.S.-led coalition. During 2017, civilian deaths from coalition air and artillery strikes in support of local ground forces in Iraq and Syria increased more than 200 percent over the previous year. Roughly 65 percent of all civilian deaths recorded by Airwars since the air campaign began in 2014 have occurred over the last 12 months.
https://theintercept.com/2018/02/22/civilian-casualties-soared-in-iraq-and-syria-in-2017-was-trumps-bloodthirsty-rhetoric-to-blame/
Over 5,000 civilian deaths unaccounted for in US-led strikes in Iraq, Syria: monitor
27/02/2018
There is a gulf between estimates of civilian deaths in Iraq and Syria as a result of the US-led coalition’s war on so-called Islamic State.
http://static.euronews.com/articles/stories/03/08/87/84/603x339_story-80d0bd51-22e7-5231-bd0d-4f38946f7190_2973483.jpg (http://www.euronews.com/2018/02/27/over-5-000-civilian-deaths-unaccounted-for-in-us-led-strikes-in-iraq-syria-monitor)
More than seven times as many civilians have been killed by the US-led coalition in Iraq and Syria than official numbers suggest, according to recent data from a leading monitor.
The US-led coalition (http://www.inherentresolve.mil/About-Us/Coalition/), composed of an alliance of western and regional powers, launched a campaign of airstrikes in Iraq and Syria in 2014 to “degrade and destroy” the so-called Islamic State. Seventy-four nations are in the coalition, including the UK, France, Germany and the Netherlands, as well as the Gulf states.
http://www.euronews.com/2018/02/27/over-5-000-civilian-deaths-unaccounted-for-in-us-led-strikes-in-iraq-syria-monitor
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Civilian Casualties Soared in Iraq and Syria in 2017. Was Trump’s Bloodthirsty Rhetoric to Blame? (https://theintercept.com/2018/02/22/civilian-casualties-soared-in-iraq-and-syria-in-2017-was-trumps-bloodthirsty-rhetoric-to-blame/)
After three years of brutal fighting, the U.S.-led war against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria is winding down, the U.S. military announced on Thursday, saying the coalition has “liberated” more than 98 percent of the area formerly controlled by ISIS, or Daesh, freeing “7.7 million Iraqis and Syrians once held under brutal Daesh rule.”
By all accounts, this victory has come at a huge cost to civilians, but how huge depends on who you ask. The U.S.-led coalition says it conducted 29,070 strikes between August 2014 and January 2018, killing “at least 841civilians.”
But that figure is much lower than independent estimates, raising questions about the conduct of the war and its disproportionate impact on Iraqi and Syrian civilians. According to reporting by the nonpartisan monitoring group Airwars, between 6,136 and 9,315 civilians have died in coalition strikes since 2014, with death tolls spiking sharply in 2017. A recent New York Times investigation on airstrikes in Iraq (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/11/16/magazine/uncounted-civilian-casualties-iraq-airstrikes.html) also found drastic underreporting of civilian casualties in official statistics, with thousands of civilian casualties undocumented by official figures.
In its annual assessment issued last month, Airwars found that 2017 was the deadliest year for civilians in Iraq and Syria, with between 3,923 and 6,102 civilians killed in strikes conducted by the U.S.-led coalition. During 2017, civilian deaths from coalition air and artillery strikes in support of local ground forces in Iraq and Syria increased more than 200 percent over the previous year. Roughly 65 percent of all civilian deaths recorded by Airwars since the air campaign began in 2014 have occurred over the last 12 months.
https://theintercept.com/2018/02/22/civilian-casualties-soared-in-iraq-and-syria-in-2017-was-trumps-bloodthirsty-rhetoric-to-blame/
Over 5,000 civilian deaths unaccounted for in US-led strikes in Iraq, Syria: monitor
27/02/2018
There is a gulf between estimates of civilian deaths in Iraq and Syria as a result of the US-led coalition’s war on so-called Islamic State.
http://static.euronews.com/articles/stories/03/08/87/84/603x339_story-80d0bd51-22e7-5231-bd0d-4f38946f7190_2973483.jpg (http://www.euronews.com/2018/02/27/over-5-000-civilian-deaths-unaccounted-for-in-us-led-strikes-in-iraq-syria-monitor)
More than seven times as many civilians have been killed by the US-led coalition in Iraq and Syria than official numbers suggest, according to recent data from a leading monitor.
The US-led coalition (http://www.inherentresolve.mil/About-Us/Coalition/), composed of an alliance of western and regional powers, launched a campaign of airstrikes in Iraq and Syria in 2014 to “degrade and destroy” the so-called Islamic State. Seventy-four nations are in the coalition, including the UK, France, Germany and the Netherlands, as well as the Gulf states.
http://www.euronews.com/2018/02/27/over-5-000-civilian-deaths-unaccounted-for-in-us-led-strikes-in-iraq-syria-monitor
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