Investigation based on the documents obtained from the hidden Pentagon archives reveals how flawed US intelligence led to the killing of civilians from Iraq and Syria to Afghanistan in the recent years
According to US military's own count, 1,417 civilians have died in air strikes in the campaign against Daesh in Iraq and Syria. has revealed the role of US air strikes in killing dozens of civilians, many of them children, in the Middle East since 2014 with deeply flawed intelligence.
According to the investigation, what has happened in the last years is a distinct contrast to the US government’s image of war waged by all-seeing drones and precision bombs. Some cases drawn from a hidden Pentagon archive of the US air war in the Middle East since 2014 have been handled in the NYT investigation to show how serious the issue is.
It was first reported that 85 Daesh terrorists were killed but the subsequent information showed more than 120 villagers along with their families and local people were killed.