WASHINGTON: The US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq acknowledged Friday the deaths of another nine civilians, increasing the toll of non-fighters killed to at least 892.The coalition completed a review in April of 159 potential civilian casualty reports and found five were considered credible, resulting in the nine civilian fatalities, a statement said.They concerned strikes in Iraq and Syria between January 2017 and January 2018.On January 9, 2017, near the Iraqi city of Mosul, two civilians were killed when a vehicle loaded with explosives that was heading towards coalition positions was struck, the statement said. On November 1, 2017, three civilians were killed and two others wounded in a strike on a road used by IS fighters in the Deir Ezzor region of Syria’s Euphrates Valley. Three other coalition strikes — on November 16, December 28 and January 8 — against IS fighters who had retreated after the fall of their self-proclaimed capital Raqa resulted in a total of four deaths and four wounded. Of the other potential civilian casualty reports reviewed, the coalition said 149 were deemed non-credible and five were redundant. From August 2014 to April 2018 the coalition conducted a total of 29,358 strikes and “assesses at least 892 civilians have been unintentionally killed,” it said.
06-02-2018, 05:56 PM
US-led anti-IS coalition admits 9 more civilian deaths
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