WASHINGTON, Dec 5 (KUNA) -- The Combined Joint Task Force - Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR) on Thursday acknowledged that its airstrikes against sites of the so-called Islamic State (IS) in October led to "unintentional" death of another civilian.
"CJTF-OIR carried over 73 open reports from previous months and received 63 new reports," according to the monthly report released by the joint task force of the US-led Global Coalition against the IS. CJTF-OIR completed 49 civilian-casualty allegation assessment reports. Out of the 49 completed casualty allegation reports, one report was determined to be credible and resulted in one unintentional civilian death.
The Coalition conducted 34,706 strikes between August 2014 and the end of October 2019, the report noted. During this period, based on information available, CJTF-OIR assesses at least 1,347 civilians have been unintentionally killed by Coalition actions since the beginning of Operation Inherent Resolve.
A "non-credible" evaluation means that the information we have to assess the allegation, using our available resources, cannot determine, to the standard of "more likely than not", that the death was the result of Coalition action. (end) rsr.gb