The civilian death toll of US airstrikes in and around the eastern Syrian town of Mayadeen continues to mount precipitously,, with the most recent figures out of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirming over 100 civilians killed in just the last 24 hours. This is not including the 35 civilians killed in the previous day.
The Pentagon finally confirmed that they had carried out two days of strikes against Mayadeen, but that they had yet to “assess the results.” Reports from the area suggest more or less everyone killed was civilians, including more than 40 children.
The most recent targets have centered around the town’s municipal government building, where large numbers of civilians, mostly family members of ISIS fighters, had sought refuge. Indications are that around 80 of the 100 killed in the most recent strikes were ISIS family members.
It’s unclear why Mayadeen specifically has become a target in the last few days, as most US strikes in Syria are meant to report the advances of Kurdish fighters around Raqqa, and while the town is indeed not very far from Raqqa, there is no indication that the Kurds are advancing anywhere near the area.
It was reported by some news outlets back in April 2017 that the IS leadership may have been evacuating from Raqqa to Mayadeen. That’s also where the ones fleeing Mosul may have settled in.
Its a blow to IS morale to kill their families. The leaders themselves may have been present, but since no such deaths have been reported it can be assumed to be purely intimidation.
Mayadeen may also be a more defensible location and less vulnerable to things like flooding from a dam failure than Raqqa itself.
Never in the history of man has more civilians been killed in a war then combat troops. Comes now great again Trump, enough said.
“Never in the history of man has more civilians been killed in a war then combat troops”
World War 2: Total military casualties, 21 million to 25 million. Total civilian casualties, 48 million to 58 million
Next false claim?
Making commanders and their families drone kill —
Supreme escalation of violence
Our Empire builders have perfected the fine art of terrorist escalation —
so watch out.
For terrorists stand square in the right in the respect that they defend the enslaved lower-half of society, most notably in the Western world.
For democracy is the greed driven stupidity of allowing the 51% most
wealthy to own all the land, wealth and healthcare.
Talk about imperial stupidity, the entire lower-half enslaved by poverty and when the terrorists finally get organized all those with hungry emaciated children, as they surely must, then we will see why dictator Obama was so keen on building all those super small nukes.