US-airstrikes against ISIS have killed 459 civilians in Iraq and Syria

#ISIS, #civiliancasualties, #airstrikes #Iraq #Syria It has now been revealed that US-led airstrikes against ISIS militants have killed at least 459 civilians in Iraq and Syria during last year. This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 4 August 2015.
This number of civilian casualties is the result of 57 airstrikes and 48 of the deaths are suspected "friendly fire" deaths. Of course, it is claimed that those same airstrikes have killed more than 15,000 IS militants.

The US had begun airstrikes against IS in Iraq on 8 August last year, and in Syria on 23 September. Subsequently, a coalition of countries has joined the operations and a total of more than 5,800 airstrikes have taken place in Syria and Iraq.
So far, the US has acknowledged killing two civilians in its airstrikes – they are two children who died during a strike against al Qaeda-linked militants in Syria in 2014. And, that particular airstrike is the subject of one of at least four ongoing investigations by the US military into allegations of civilian casualties.
Britain has announced that its RAF Tornados would extend airstrikes for another year.
The aim of these airstrikes is to cripple the ISIS outfits by targeting and destroying their ground installations and, in the course of such strikes, a certain of civilian casualties have to be treated as fait accompli, a necessary evil.
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