IHCHR: 11,800 Civilians Killed In US-Led Air Strikes in Syria, Iraq

📆 10/7/2024 4:53 PM

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📆 10/7/2024 4:53 PM
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Brett Wilkins is a staff writer for Common Dreams.

Nearly 12,000 civilians have been killed by U.S.-led air strikes in Iraq and Syria since 2014, according to a statement from the Iraq i High Commission for Human Rights .

spokesman Dr. Ali A. Al-Bayati said on Saturday that 'about 11,800 civilians, including 2,300 children and 1,130 women, were killed in addition to 8,000 wounded by the bombing of the coalition in Iraq and Syria.' There have been more than 30,000 U.S.-led air strikes in Iraq and Syria since former president Barack Obama launched Operation Inherent Resolve, the anti-Islamic State campaign, in June 2014. The vast majority of these bombings have been carried out by US warplanes.

'appreciates the efforts' of the U.S.-led coalition 'in helping Iraq in its fight against terrorism,' he lamented that the 11,800 deaths he reported 'are much more than the official numbers published by the international coalition.' The US military estimated in December that 'at least 1,139 civilians have been unintentionally killed by coalition strikes since the start of Operation Inherent Resolve.

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