U.S. military operations killed 120 civilians in 2018, the Pentagon says in a new report
By Missy Ryan Missy Ryan Reporter covering the Pentagon, military issues and national security Email Bio Follow May 2 at 8:38 AM U.S. military operations killed 120 civilians in 2018, the Pentagon said in a new assessment of noncombatant deaths.
Outside watchdog groups such as Airwars have put forward much higher death tolls for U.S. counterterrorism strikes. For 2018, despite a significant slowing of the American campaign against the Islamic State, Airwars found that air and artillery strikes by the U.S.-led coalition killed a minimum of 805 civilians in Iraq and Syria alone.
The White House argued the change was made to avoid duplication with the congressionally mandated report. But the White House report previously included a tally including accidental deaths caused by military and intelligence operations. Its elimination means the public will no longer have access to information about CIA drone strikes.
“The report also further validates our instinct that we clearly still have work to do on the degree of effort DOD puts into proactively seeking out facts that it doesn’t have at its fingertips,” Mahanty said.
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