The Pentagon said on Tuesday it launched various strikes on Daesh group forces in Syria over the past several days, including hits on some targets that “may have resulted in civilian casualties”.
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United States Central Command (CENTCOM) did not say how many had died or were injured in coalition strikes on September 7, September 10 and September 12.
But Centcom said that in the Sept 10 raid “near Ar Raqqah, Syria, a strike against an ISIL target may have resulted in the death of civilians near where the strike occurred”, employing a alternate term used to refer to the group.
The coalition conducted ten additional strikes near the Syrian cities of Abu Kamal, Al Shadaddi and Mar’a, destroying Daesh fighting positions, supply routes, vehicles, a vehicle borne improvised explosive device and mortar systems.
The US-led coalition of more than 60 nations has been carrying out airstrikes in Iraq and Syria since the summer of 2014.
Germany is also a member of the coalition and has provided six Tornado aircraft that are parked at Turkey’s Incirlik airbase.
Russian Federation has also been conducting airstrikes in Syria with the stated aim of targetting DAESH.
The US-led coalition has done little to stop Daesh’s advances in Syria and Iraq.
Syria has been locked in a violent conflict since early 2011, when the regime of Bashar al-Assad cracked down on pro-democracy protests with unexpected ferocity.
Once again, there were no details on how many were killed.
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However, the commission said in a September 6 report that much of the blame for the soaring civilian death toll in Syria’s multi-sided, more than five-year-old civil war rested with the Syrian government air forces and their Russian allies.
