The Pentagon said on Tuesday it launched various strikes on Islamic State group forces in Syria over the past several days, including hits on some targets that “may have resulted in civilian casualtie
The Pentagon said on Tuesday it launched various strikes on Islamic State group forces in Syria over the past several days, including hits on some targets that “may have resulted in civilian casualties.”
The incidents took place on September 7, September 10 and September 12, according to a statement from CENTCOM.
It did not give a number of dead or injured. But in the September 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,” CENTCOM said, employing a alternate term used to refer to the jihadist group.
On September 7, a raid near Dayz Az Zawr, Syria, on an IS targeted a non-military vehicle that drove into the target area after the weapon was released from the aircraft.
And September 12, a bombing near Ash Shaddadah, Syria, during a strike against an ISIL target another apparently non-military vehicle drove into the target area after the weapon was released from the aircraft, CENTCOM added.
Iraqi security forces, backed by coalition air power, are in the final weeks of “shaping” operations ahead of an assault to recapture Mosul, which IS seized in 2014 and which remains the jihadists’ last main stronghold in Iraq.
Meanwhile, besieged Syrian civilians waited desperately for aid on Wednesday as relief convoys remained on hold despite a significant drop in violence under a ceasefire brokered by Washington and Moscow.
The truce that began at sundown on Monday is part of the latest bid to end a five-year conflict that has killed more than 300,000 people.
