U.S. Central Command acknowledged on Thursday that troops targeted and killed a Syrian civilian who had been “misidentified” as an al Qaeda target a year ago. U.S. forces carried out the ...
killing one man. The statement says the military's investigation determined that US forces misidentified the intended Al-Qaeda target and a civilian named Lufti Hasan Masto was killed. The US ...
The US military has finally acknowledged that it mistakenly killed a civilian man in an airstrike ... following his killing, the defense official told CNN. A compensation payment was considered ...
and willful disregard toward civilians slain purposely or accidentally by the US military and a long history of failures to ...
and willful disregard toward civilians slain purposely or accidentally by the US military and a long history of failures to ...
The US has admitted that its airstrike in Syria last year killed a civilian, mistaking him for a senior al Qaeda leader, CNN reported. An investigation was ordered by US Central Command (CENTCOM ...
U.S. Central Command issued a statement Thursday. A targeted U.S. drone strike in northwest Syria one year ago Friday hit and killed a civilian, not the al-Qaeda leader it was looking for ...
We owned up to it, we investigated it, and we tried to learn from it to make changes,” the White House spokesman said.
"I think the US position remains that proportionality is the test in war, and proportionality doesn't rule out damage to civilian infrastructure and damage or death in the civilian population," he ...