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Pentagon Admits U.S. Airstrike in Mosul Killed 105 Iraqi Civilians

HeadlineMay 26, 2017

The Pentagon has admitted in a new report at least 105 Iraqi civilians died in a U.S. airstrike in Mosul in March—making it one of the deadliest U.S. bombings of the war. But U.S. Central Command blamed the high death toll on explosives that militants from the so-called Islamic State were storing in the targeted building. The Pentagon’s death estimate is far lower than previous counts. Iraqi civil defense forces initially put the death toll at 278 civilians.

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