Four years after the U.S. and a number of its' allies unleashed a devastating air campaign in Iraq and Syria, the coalition Thursday acknowledged the deaths of 1,059 civilians from its aerial bombings in Iraq and Syria.
US coalition said its' jet fighters conducted 29,826 strikes between August 2014 and June of this year.
The release of a new report by the U.S.-led coalition on Thursday contained an admission of errors and oversights revealed in large part due to the efforts of international conflict monitors.
The statement claimed that unintended civilian casualties regrettably occurred in Iraq and Syria.
In spite of that, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said recently in a press conference in New York that there is no military solution for Syria crisis.
US coalition's announcement came amid calls for updated figures from rights organizations, which have long accused the coalition of significantly undercounting the number of civilians it has killed during years of fighting against IS.
Chris Woods, an investigative journalist who leads London-based civilian casualty counter Airwars, told Newsweek last month that there was "an enormous disparity" in the figures released by the coalition for once-ISIS held cities of Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in northern Syria.
The US and its Western allies have been actively engaged in the seven-year long war in Syria, including the illegal stationing of troops in the country and backing anti-government terrorists and militants such as Daesh, al-Nusra Front, and the Free Syrian Army (FSA).
