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May 3, 2019

Pentagon Accused of Killing 10x as Many Civilians Overseas as Acknowledged in New Report
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The Pentagon is facing accusations that it is drastically
underestimating the number of civilians being killed in U.S. airstrikes
overseas. On Thursday, the Pentagon released a report saying the U.S.
had killed 120 civilians in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Somalia
last year. However, the watchdog monitoring group Airwars says the total
is at least 10 times higher. In Iraq and Syria, the Pentagon admitted to
killing 42 people, but Airwars put the civilian death toll from attacks
by the U.S.-led coalition at over 800.


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