[Global Network Military Report] According to a report on the "Russia Today" website (RT) on November 18, the British watch organization "Air Combat" stated that the US Department of Defense announced to the organization that the US coalition forces were in Syria and Iraq from 2014 to 2019. The "most comprehensive" data on civilian casualties during the military operations of the United States. During this period, the US-led coalition caused 1,410 civilian deaths and 349 civilian injuries. RT said that the actual figure may be much higher than the figure announced by the United States. The
"air warfare" organization said that this information includes data on the location and time of 341 US coalition operations, as well as the number of civilians killed in the operations, and even the names of the dead. This is more accurate data on civilian casualties than ever before. ". RT pointed out that the data released by the United States only included incidents that caused civilian casualties recognized by the United States in the past five years. The "Air Combat" organization predicts that the number of deaths caused by coalition military operations in Syria and Iraq may be between 8,310 and 13,187. The
“air warfare” organization also reported in 2019 that the U.S. military’s air strikes against the Syrian city of Raqqa in 2017 alone may have caused 1,600 civilian deaths. This figure alone is higher than that of Syria officially recognized by the Pentagon in more than five years. And the total number of civilian deaths in Iraq, when the US official judged the death toll at about 160. In addition, there are no exact statistics on the deaths and injuries caused by the military operations launched by the US military in Mosul, Iraq and other places.
According to Al Jazeera’s report, the United States paid Iraq only six compensations for the dead and injured in 2019, while the United States paid more than 600 compensations in Afghanistan in 2019. The reason given by the United States is that the It is difficult to prove the exact time and place of the civilian casualties, so it is difficult to pay compensation.
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