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WASHINGTON: At slightest 352 civilians have been killed in US-led strikes opposite Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria given a operation began in 2014, a US troops pronounced in a matter on Sunday.
The Combined Joint Task Force, in a monthly comment of municipal casualties from a US coalition’s operations opposite a belligerent group, pronounced it was still assessing 42 reports of municipal deaths.
It combined that 45 civilians were killed between Nov 2016 and Mar 2017. It reported 80 municipal deaths from Aug 2014 to a benefaction that had not formerly been announced.
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The news enclosed 26 deaths from 3 apart strikes in March. The military’s central total is distant next those of other outward groups.
Monitoring organisation Airwars pronounced some-more than 3,000 civilians have been killed by bloc atmosphere strikes.
Included in Sunday’s total were 14 civilians killed by a strike in Mar that set off a delegate explosion, as good as 10 civilians who were killed in a strike on Islamic State domicile a same month.
“We bewail a unintended detriment of municipal lives … and demonstrate a deepest sympathies to a families and others influenced by these strikes,” a Pentagon pronounced in a statement.
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