Overdue US Admission that Civilians Were Killed in Syria Strike Is Still Insufficient

Expand Entrance to the Badia school that was struck by coalition aircraft on March 20, 2017.  © 2017 Ole Solvang/Human Rights Watch It finally admitted to it. After months of denying that any civilians died, the United States-led coalition in Syria has finally recognized that its strike on a boarding school in Mansourah, near Raqqa, Syria, on March 20, 2017, killed dozens of civilians. In its latest “monthly civilian casualty report” issued on June 28, the coalition noted that its reporting of the attack “was reopened after the receipt of new evidence from Human Rights Watch. During a strike…

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