Search results
- Almost a year later, the U.S. military has concluded that an airstrike last May in northwestern Syria killed a civilian, instead of a senior al Qaeda leader, as it initially claimed.
People also ask
Did US military mistakenly kill a civilian in Syria?
How many people were killed in Syria's airstrikes?
How many civilians have been killed in airstrikes?
Did Pentagon mistakenly kill a civilian in a 2023 airstrike?
Did the military hide a bombing in Syria?
Are Syria strikes causing civilian casualties?
May 2, 2024 · U.S. Central Command initially said an airstrike in May 2023 had killed a senior al Qaeda leader in Syria, but an investigation has concluded it actually killed an innocent civilian.
- watsone@cbsnews.com
- CBS News
- CBS News Reporter
Nov 13, 2021 · The Baghuz strike was one of the largest civilian casualty incidents of the war against the Islamic State, but it has never been publicly acknowledged by the U.S. military. The details,...
Nov 15, 2021 · The US acknowledged for the first time that previously undisclosed airstrikes in Syria carried out days before the fall of ISIS in 2019 killed multiple civilians, including women and...
May 2, 2024 · The US military has finally acknowledged that it mistakenly killed a civilian man in an airstrike in Syria nearly a year ago after misidentifying him as a senior al Qaeda leader,...
May 2, 2024 · A U.S. airstrike in Syria in May 2023 that was targeting an al-Qaida leader killed an innocent civilian instead, U.S. Central Command said Thursday, confirming early reports from...
Dec 25, 2021 · But a deep investigation by the New York Times Magazine finds that U.S. airstrikes have killed thousands of civilians - including small children - in places that include Iraq, Syria and...
Dec 18, 2021 · According to the military’s count, 1,417 civilians have died in airstrikes in the campaign against ISIS in Iraq and Syria; since 2018 in Afghanistan, U.S. air operations have killed at least...
