Over 5,000 civilian deaths unaccounted for in US-led strikes in Iraq, Syria: Monitor

More than seven times as many civilians have been killed by the US-led coalition in Iraq and Syria than official numbers suggest, according to recent data from a leading monitor.

The US-led coalition, composed of an alliance of western and regional powers, launched a campaign of airstrikes in Iraq and Syria in 2014 to “degrade and destroy” the so-called Islamic State.

Seventy-four nations are in the coalition and including the UK, France, Germany and the Netherlands, as well as the Gulf states.

Its mission, Operation Inherent Resolve, has also seen it target Syrian military positions, with the alliance acknowledging earlier this month that a retaliatory airstrike on forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad had killed about 100 people.

But civilians have also been caught in the strikes.

SOURCE: euronews
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