An operation involving US forces has left at least seven civilians dead in Iraq. On Wednesday, US and Iraqi troops stormed three homes in the town of Fallujah. According to McClatchy Newspapers, the joint team set off explosives and shot dead members of two families. A young boy said the soldiers shot and killed his father and three of his brothers, one of them in the fifth grade. Four people were also wounded, including a ninety-year-old woman. The sister of one of the slain victims spoke out after the attack.

Sister: “Where is the government? How can they say that US combat forces have withdrawn? They’ve raided families at the dead of the night, shooting and frightening them. Where is the army, and where is the police?”

The raid was the deadliest involving US forces since President Obama declared the nominal end to combat operations earlier this month.