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 [...]
