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The US Decision To Kill More Civilians in Iraq and Syria

• AntiWar.com

USA Today reported on April 19 that U.S. air forces bombing Syria and Iraq have been operating under new, looser rules of engagement since last fall. The war commander, Lt. Gen. Sean McFarland, now orders air strikes that are expected to kill up to 10 civilians without prior approval from US Central Command, and US officials made it clear to USA Today that US air strikes are killing more civilians as a result of the new rules.

Under these new rules of engagement, the US has conducted a major escalation of its bombing campaign against Mosul, an Iraqi city of about 1.5 million people, which has been occupied by Islamic State since 2014. Reports of hundreds of civilians killed in US air strikes reveal some of the human cost of the US air war and the new rules of engagement.

Previous statements by US officials have absurdly claimed that over 40,000 US air strikes in Iraq and Syria have killed as few as 26 civilians.


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