The BBC has recently produced several reports concerning an incident in Mosul, Iraq, in which a large number of civilians are alleged to have been killed during a strike on ISIS forces.
‘Battle for Mosul: US investigating deadly air strike‘ BBC News website, March 25th 2017
“The US military has acknowledged that aircraft of the coalition fighting so-called Islamic State (IS) in Iraq hit a location in west Mosul where dozens of civilians were reportedly killed. […]
The US Central Command said the planes acted at the request of Iraqi security forces. It did not name which country’s aircraft carried out the attack.
In its statement, it said “an initial review of strike data” indicated that an air strike on 17 March was carried out in western Mosul “at the location corresponding to allegations of civilian casualties”.
The coalition “takes all allegations of civilian casualties seriously and…
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