Syria – US-led air strikes against the Islamic State group in Syria have killed more than 1,600 people, mainly jihadists, since they began five months ago, a monitor said on Monday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said almost all of those killed were jihadists from IS and Al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate Al-Nusra Front, though it also documented the deaths of 62 civilians.
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The Britain-based monitor said the strikes that began on September 23 had killed 1,465 members of the Islamic State group, most of them non-Syrians.
Another 73 fighters from Al-Nusra Front were killed, along with a man from a rebel group being held prisoner by IS in the group’s de facto capital Raqa.
Washington and a small coalition of Arab countries began strikes against IS in Syria last year, expanding US-led operations with a broader coalition already underway against IS in Iraq.
IS emerged in Syria in 2013, growing from Al-Qaeda’s former Iraqi affiliate.
But it broke with Al-Qaeda and declared an Islamic “caliphate” in territory it controls in Syria and Iraq, attracting a steady stream of foreign fighters and carrying out abuses including beheadings.
This seems “disproportionate” and how come “civilians” aer dying? Oh right its not Jews that are killing and defending themselves so therefore nobody cares. The world is trully anti-Semitic starting from the occupant in the White House.
And how many women and children?
Ah, now that the “shoe is on the other foot”, killing innocent civilians is fine.
I’m sure there was no innocent lives lost
KAIN YIRBU !
What happened to the 7000 that Jordan claims they killed?