An internal Pentagon investigation has found that a 2019 airstrike that killed up to 64 civilians in Syria did not violate US rules of engagement or the law of war, and was not carried out with “wanton disregard.” Some military officers considered the incident, which the Pentagon still maintains was necessary to take out ISIS fighters, a war crime.
On March 18, 2019, a US F-15E fighter jet dropped a bomb on “a large crowd of women and children huddled against a river bank” near the Syrian town of Baghuz and then proceeded to drop several more, killing survivors, according to a New York Times report published last November.
US Central Command admitted that the strike killed 80 people, of which only 16 were alleged Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) terrorists. The military admitted to killing four civilians, but insisted that the remaining 60 may have been terrorists, as “women and children in the Islamic State sometimes took up arms.”
NATO soldiers are already in Ukraine helping Kiev but the US-led bloc does not want…
Russia has celebrated the 79th anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany in World War II…
The Russian military has seized two settlements in Kharkov Region and Donbass from Ukrainian forces,…
AstraZeneca pharmaceutical company has announced the withdrawal of its Covid-19 vaccine from global markets, claiming…
A video documenting the destruction of a NATO-supplied tank in Ukrainian service appeared on Russian…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has officially been sworn into office for a fifth term. In…