U.S. says military killed 120 civilians abroad in 2018
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A report released today by Pentagon says about 120 civilians were killed and 65 others injured in the US military actions in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia last year.
The annual report, mandated by Congress, showed a significant drop from nearly 800 civilians killed in 2017, in part because the pace of operations had slowed against ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
During operations in Afghanistan in 2018, 76 civilians were killed, including 42 killed in Iraq and Syria, and two in Somalia.
The Pentagon assessed that no civilians were killed in Libya or Yemen, the report said.
Contrary to the official report, Amnesty International and the monitoring group Airwars, in a report published late in April, said the U.S.-backed assault to drive Islamic State militants from the Syrian capital Raqqa in 2017 killed more than 1,600 civilians.
