The Pentagon will review the deadly 2019 US bombings in Syria ISIL / ISIS News

The U.S. will look into whether the procedures were followed after the NY Times reported that dozens of civilians had been killed in the bombings.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has ordered a review of the U.S. bombing of Syria in March 2019, the New York Times recently reported that dozens of civilians were killed. the last fortress ISILen (ISIS).

Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby announced the probe on Monday, saying it would be led by General Michael Garrett, head of the U.S. Army Forces Command.

Earlier this month, the U.S. military admitted in 2019 that civilians could be killed in bombings in Baghuz, near the Iraqi border. At the time, it was sponsored by the US Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) were conducting ground fighting with the help of American air force.

“It is likely that the majority of the dead are also combatants during the strike. However, there are also likely to be more civilian deaths, ”U.S. military spokesman Bill Urban said in a Nov. 14 appearance.

He added that “investigations have not been able to determine the condition of more than 60 other deaths as a result of these strikes.”

Urban’s statement came the day after the New York Times, citing anonymous sources and classified documents, he published a report which accused the U.S. military of hiding the bombing.

The newspaper reported that the bombing hit a “crowd of women and children” and killed 64 people.

“Without warning, an American F-15E attack aircraft crossed the high-definition field of vision of the drone and dropped a 500-pound bomb on the crowd, swallowing it in a vibrating explosion. As the smoke cleared, some people stumbled in search of cover. a follow-up plane dropped a 2,000-pound bomb and then another, killing most of the survivors, ”the Times wrote.

On Monday, Kirby said the review would examine “procedures for keeping and reporting records” and “whether the mitigation measures identified in previous investigations of the incident were effectively implemented.”

The probe, which will be conducted within 90 days, will also assess whether appropriate “liability measures” will be in place, Kirby added.

The US-led coalition launched a bombing campaign against the ISIL (ISIS) group in Syria and Iraq in 2014, and the U.S. military maintains troops in both countries with the stated goal of preventing the group’s resurgence.

Former US President Donald Trump saw the territorial defeat of ISIL (ISIS) as a major political achievement in his 2020 election.

Rights groups accused the US-led coalition of killing civilians in the bombing campaign. A 2019 research Amnesty International, for example, saw the coalition kill 1,600 civilians in Raqqan, the de facto capital of the ISIL (ISIS) group.

The Associated Press news agency reported Monday that after the New York Times published the story, Austin received information about the Syrian attacks from General Frank McKenzie, the head of the U.S. Central Command.

The AP reported that McKenzie’s command “an initial investigation concluded that the strike was legitimate self-defense in favor of Syrian force partners under ISIL firing.”

It comes after an investigation into the Syrian attacks It was accepted by the Pentagon in September, a U.S. drone attack killed 10 civilians in Kabul in a chaotic U.S. evacuation from Afghanistan.

But the following internal review The Pentagon concluded that the bombing did not violate the laws of war or that he did not engage in criminal conduct or negligence, causing outrage.