Estados Unidos y sus aprendices afganos ahora matan a más civiles que los talibanes

La administración Trump se ha basado cada vez más en misiones de bombardeo en un intento por cambiar el rumbo en Afganistán, donde los talibanes han podido ganar más y más tierras bajo su control en los últimos años.

Alexander Rubinstein
Por Alexander Rubinstein
Afghanistan | civilian casualties

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN -- For the first time in recorded history, the U.S. and the Afghan government, whose forces are trained by Americans, killed more civilians than did the Taliban in the first quarter of 2019, according to a United Nations report. Increased bombing campaigns by the U.S. and increasingly reckless search operations by pro-government

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Britain’s Unreported Bombing of Iraq and Syria

Though largely unreported, Britain has launched 244 drone and airstrikes in Iraq and Syria during 2018, firing 512 munitions.

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Por TruePublica
syria casualties

Back in 2016, The Guardian published a piece about The Chilcott Report and how Britain should be more careful over civilian deaths in the battlegrounds of the Mid-East. “Future British governments must make a greater effort to assess the number of civilians being killed and injured during their military operations, the Chilcot report says, after

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Civilian Death Toll from US Strikes in Syria and Iraq: 1,061 (Official); 6,575-26,224 (AirWars)

Prominent human-rights groups like Amnesty International have rejected the U.S.-led coalition’s reported figures on civilian deaths, stating that the coalition is “deeply in denial” about the “large number of civilians killed and injured by [coalition] strikes.”

Whitney Webb
Por Whitney Webb
Residents carry the body of several people killed in Mosul, Iraq, Friday, March 24, 2017. Residents of the Iraqi city's neighborhood known as Mosul Jidideh at the scene say that scores of residents are believed to have been killed by airstrikes that hit a cluster of homes in the area. (AP/Felipe Dana)

WASHINGTON – On Thursday, the U.S.-led coalition targeting Daesh (ISIS) published a casualty report that has drawn criticism and consternation from independent watchdogs and human-rights groups for severely underestimating the number of civilians killed by coalition airstrikes in Syria and Iraq since operations began in 2014. According to the

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Saudi Airstrike on Residential Neighborhood in Sadaa Kills 9 Civilians, Injures 5

Over 577 civilians, mostly women and children, have been killed or wounded in the first half of 2018 by U.S. backed Saudi airstrikes and artillery attacks in Saada, Yemen.

Ahmed Abdulkareem
Por Ahmed Abdulkareem
People search under the rubble of houses destroyed by Saudi-led airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, Aug. 25, 2017. The airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition targeted Yemen's capital early on Friday, hitting at least three houses in Sanaa and killing at least 14 civilians, including women and children, residents and eyewitnesses said. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Sadaa,Yemen -- The U.S. backed Saudi-led coalition’s bloody campaign of airstrikes in Yemen continues to claim civilian victims. Yemen`s northern province as Sadaa, declared a military zone by the Saudi-led Coalition in the early days of its war on Yemen, is amongst the hardest-hit. On Wednesday, a Saudi airstrike targeted a home serving as a de

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Calculating the Millions-High Death Toll of America’s Post-9/11 Wars

In the third and final part of his series, Nicolas JS Davies investigates the death toll of U.S. covert and proxy wars in Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen and underscores the importance of comprehensive war mortality studies.

Nicolas J.S. Davies
Por Nicolas J.S. Davies
A relative of two children and their mother, who died after a NATO bomb fell on their home, grieves during their funeral in Zlitan, Libya, Aug. 4, 2011. (AP/Dario Lopez-Mills)

In the first two parts of this report, I have estimated that about 2.4 million people have been killed as a result of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, while about 1.2 million have been killed in Afghanistan and Pakistan as a result of the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan.  In the third and final part of this report, I will estimate how many people have been

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Syrian Rebels Target Busy Market In Eastern Ghouta Rocket Attack

Initial reports indicate that at least 38 civilians, including women and children, are dead following a deadly rocket attack on a busy marketplace by Syrian Rebels in Eastern Ghouta.

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Por ZeroHedge.com

On Tuesday evening, anti-government fighters in the embattled East Ghouta suburb of Damascus launched a major attack, firing several missiles and artillery shells into a crowded shopping district of government-held Jaramana area, resulting in a civilian massacre. The Guardian has described the attack as "one of the deadliest rebel attacks on the

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