KABUL: The US military operations killed 120 civilians in 2018, including76 civilians in operations against the Taliban and other militants inAfghanistan, the US Department of Defense said in an annual report to theUS congress.
Quoted by Washington Post, the department said that 42 civilians wereconfirmed to have been killed last year in the US-led operation against theIslamic State in Iraq and Syria and two civilians died in operationsagainst al-Shabab in Somalia.
The department found no credible reports of civilian deaths caused by USoperations in Libya or Yemen last year, the report said.
A UN report from last month shows that 799 civilians were killed in thefirst quarter of this year while 303 of them were killed in pro-governmentforces operations which shows a 39 percent increase from the same periodlast year.
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The UN attributed 17 percent of civilian casualties to the Afghan nationalsecurity forces, 13 percent to international military forces, two percentto pro-government armed groups, and two percent to multiple pro-governmentforces.
