A Pentagon report revealed that about 130 civilians were killed and 91 wounded in US military operations in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia last year, while Amnesty International confirmed that the number is much higher than what the report said.
Reuters reported that the report, which consists of about 20 pages and tracks air and ground military operations, said that 108 civilians were killed in operations in Afghanistan during the past year, while 22 were killed in Iraq and Syria, in addition to two civilians in Somalia.
For his part, the Amnesty International branch in the United States announced that Washington still counts fewer than real numbers of civilian victims.
“Based on our extensive and extensive investigations we have conducted in several places, the US military continues to report significantly fewer numbers of civilians killed and injured by the U.S. strikes,” said Daphne Eviator, director of Amnesty International’s security department in the United States.
It is noteworthy that the flight of the so-called “illegal international coalition” led by Washington, and in the context of its aggression and massacres against Syrian civilians, committed many massacres and its planes launched dozens of raids on the village of Baghouz and its surroundings in the southeastern countryside of Deir Al zor, which led to the martyrdom and wounding of hundreds of civilians, mostly children and women, in addition to Great material damage to the property and homes of citizens.
A census conducted by the Air Wars Monitoring Group shows that during the first six months of 2019 in Syria, the attacks of the so-called United States-led coalition that claims to fight the terrorist organization “ISIS” caused between 416 and 1030 civilians killed.
In Somalia, data shows that up to 15 allegations of civilian casualties by American fire demonstrate their sincerity or believed to be true.
The US military admitted in the report that its statistics differ from the numbers of other groups such as NGOs, claiming that this may be due to differences in approach and the type of information used.
Last year, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that rescinded a policy dating back to the era of former President Barack Obama obliging US intelligence officials to report civilian deaths in drone attacks outside war zones.
Source : Sana
