US and coalition airstrikes against the northern Syrian villages of Tokhar and Hoshariyeh have killed at least 56 civilians, including 11 children, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Other groups claimed the civilian toll was as high as 200.
The villages are ISIS-held villages near the city of Manbij, which US-backed rebels are attacking. This civilian toll comes less than 24 hours after an incident in which US airstrikes against Manbij itself killed 20 civilians,
The village attacks, however, have really raised eyebrows, and as the death toll is still getting sorted out, it could well stand as the deadliest US coalition attack on civilians in the entire war.
The Pentagon rarely accounts for civilians killed in airstrikes in Iraq and Syria, occasionally issuing statements with dramatic undercounts of the number of civilians they’ve killed since the war began. US attacks in and around Manbij alone had killed over 100 before the village incidents.
The increased death tolls come after an April decision to dramatically expand the rules of engagement, and introduce a “sliding scale” of the number of civilians US forces are allowed to kill based on the target of the attack. The rules broadly remain secret, and it’s unclear if the 56 killed today, or the 20 killed yesterday, would be considered “acceptable” according to them. The Pentagon did, at the very least, admit that they were looking into the matter, which is farther than many get.
July 19, 2016 CIA Rebels Behead Kid And Other U.S. Successes in Syria
The U.S. “regime change” operation in Syria recently tallied up some major successes. The Syrian Democratic Force, a U.S. sponsored group of mostly Syrian Kurds, is besieging the Islamic State held eastern city of Manbij. According to the UN’s Human Rights commissioner 70,000 civilians in Manbij are cut off from all supplies.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article45144.htm
Such physical and emotional insanity,
how can they presume to call it a
mental and intellectual religion?
Do you mean the Christians in the CIA?
Just another glorious day for the greater israel project
now you understand why Soros wants the Muslims to leave the Middle East and shove them into EU/US. More space for greater Israel.
And without any legal justification whatsoever. Not from Congress. Not from the UN. Not from Syria. Not from any international body.
This is pure aggressive war for sheer conquest. The US has become the most evil force on earth.
i hope some day US officials will have to face justice, but i’m not holding my breath.
Mistake? Carelessness? Another mistake of the sort that was My Lai?
Do these morons have any clue what they heck they are doing? Where they even are?
Get the Syrian people terrorized and in submission to another Iraq type occupation, that is my estimation.
1968: Mistook them for VC. 2016: Mistook them for ISIS. Chris Hedges coined the phrase “The Myth of Human Progress”, and it is applicable here. Ultimately, civilization itself is being destroyed.
Sad day to be an American. But hey they nominated Donald Trump for president,
Ok,go vote for the career criminal screwup,HRC, who promises the same shite we get every day.
Idiots.(or Zoinist mole traitors)
Then when people start bowing Americans apart, they have the gall to protest?
the death toll exceeds the numbers giving, in two days in mid week this week the death toll were over three hundred civilians mostly women and children and the likes of Trump and his goons keeps blaming Muslims for every thing and warning us about Muslims taking over.
The likes of Trump will get US out of this dead end for Zion,knucklehead.
You aren’t Ted Cruz?
Other parts of the world are putting a very different spin on this than the American spin that is the basis of this article. This piece fails to mention that the French were a part of these 30 air-strikes. And the claim is that the French and the US went out to deliberately slaughter civilians in response to the Nice lone-wolf attack.
Without corroboration from someone on the inside of either government that will be very hard to prove. However, given the mindset of the MIC and their hangers-on (poodles) and the ideological drivers for the overall adventurism in the ME, I would not put it past them. And that forces you to realize that if they are willing to do this, there is nothing they will not do to get what they want.
France and other countries are paying the price for cooperation with the US. But there is the Nato commitment and those other countries still think they can continue and not feel the sting of revenge. This is why Nato is essential to the US and the reason why Trump would never interfere with Nato in any way. You stupid American lemmings, can’t you grasp simple concepts that are biting your asses?
Jan 31, 2012 The girl killed by Barack Obama – she never saw it coming
Why the emphasis on drones, as compared to US weapons of mass destruction that slaughter tens and hundreds of people? All US wars of aggression should be stopped Lincoln but to dwell on drone strikes the way you’re doing just makes you out to be a rabid racist who hates Obama and likely all black people.
And then you people wonder why I made accusations about American racism! Isn’t it pretty obvious Lincoln? Do you think decent people should consider you to be something better than just pond scum?
The NAACP motto ?
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gTBs9zygshg/R-UeVeTP7jI/AAAAAAAAAWA/gc2QVdzOnrw/s1600/Obama_black_racists.jpg
We in other countreis at least have the confidence in Russia’s and China’s nuclear deterrent that will stop the US from MAD. And if the psychopathic narcsiccist Trump becomes your president then at least we know that the US goes down in flames too if Trump can’t be contained. Quite a bit more likely that the longstanding stalemate will not hold because a psychopath knows no fear and will not be defeated.
Would Clinton be a better choice? Most likely because she at least knows the reality of the ever present potential for MAD and will carry on US wars of aggression in the limited way that was the cold war tactics. Will she respect that Obama has saved Iran and Syria by allowing Russia to put them out of bounds for US wars of aggression? At least there’s reasonable doubt she would commit her country to complete and total destruction.
luv from Canada.
Well, do understand that Hillary has said she would impose a no fly zone over Syria. Guess what that will do. Put us in DIRECT confrontation with Russia. Hillary is just as much as a psychopath as the republicans.
Yea right. The war crime country should let Putin handle this…
Until the war criminals in the Pentagon and the White House (past and present) are tried for their crimes against humanity, the violence will never end.
Nice going war criminal Obama and his regime.
What is soooo sad but totally predictable is our media (defacto state media that is) didn’t even report on this even when Obama’s jihadist army aka rebels were reporting it. But, this defacto state media has no problem reporting on what is spoon fed to them from U.S. Officials whether it is true or not.