US Admits Airstrike May Have Killed Civilians In Syria

The US has admitted that civilians may have been killed in an airstrike this week which was allegedly targeting ISIS in Syria. According to a statement by the US Central Command, US jets targeting an ISIS ‘weapons facility’ in Raqqa, Syria “may have resulted in civilian casualties” during an airstrike Tuesday. Press TV reports: The statement, released as part of a post-strike assessment, said a decision would be made later on “whether an investigation is needed.” CENTCOM claimed that a non-military vehicle drove into the target area after the airstrike had been launched, saying that “the vehicle’s occupants may have perished as a result of the strike”. This announcement came after the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Wednesday that 6,004 people had been killed in the US-led coalition airstrikes in Syria during a period of 23 months, from September 23, 2014 to August 23, 2016. Last month, the US was heavily criticized for its airstrikes even by the so-called Syrian National Coalition (SNC). President of the SNC, Anas Alabdah, called on the US to suspend its airstrikes until it performs a thorough investigation into an attack near the volatile northern city of Manbij that killed at least 73 civilians and at most 205. This was dubbed the worst US-caused civilian casualty disaster of the so-called [...]