US-Led Coalition Airstrikes Killed 300 Civilians in Syria: Amnesty

The US-led coalition started its airstrikes on Syria in 2014 claiming to target ISIS terrorists but the result has been the death of hundreds of civilians as the Amnesty international says.
 
 "It’s high time the US authorities came clean about the full extent of the civilian damage caused by coalition attacks in Syria," Deputy Director for Research at Amnesty’s Middle East and North Africa Regional Office Lynn Maalouf said.
 
The UK-based rights group said as many as 300 civilians had been killed in 11 attacks conducted by the Washington-led alliance since September 2014.
 
"Analysis of available evidence suggests that in each of these cases, coalition forces failed to take adequate precautions to minimize harm to civilians and damage to civilian objects,” Maalouf added.
 
The human rights body also called for independent investigations for possible violations of international law by the coalition forces. It further urged the forces to take better precautions before launching such attacks.
 
 "Some of these attacks may constitute disproportionate or otherwise indiscriminate attacks,” Maalouf said.
 
In July, a US airstrike reportedly killed at least 70 civilians, mostly women and children, near the city of Manbij in northern Syria.
 
There are also reports that the US-led attacks have on numerous occasions hampered counterterrorism operations by Syrian armed forces.
 
The so-called international coalition carried out on September 17 an airstrike on units of the Syrian government forces in the city of Deir-ez-Zor, that killed more than 60 servicemen and about 100 others wounded.
 
"In reality they [Western forces] helped ISIS, because they killed tens of Syrian soldiers who were defending the city of Deir-ez-Zor from being under the control of ISIS, and now ISIS took the hills that overlooked the city so they could be able someday to take control of Deir-ez-Zor because of that attack," Syrian president Bashar Assad said in an interview with Danish TV 2.