While on the campaign trail in late 2015, Donald Trump pledged to "bomb the shit" out of ISIS if he became president. Now, a couple of months after he took office, reports of civilian deaths from US strikes in Syria and Iraq have hit an all-time high. Why exactly that is, however, remains unclear.
According to Airwars, a British monitoring group, alleged civilian casualties linked to US strikes in Syria and Iraq have soared to 1,472 so far this month. In March of last year, 196 civilians were reported killed. The previous all-time high was 613 in January.
"This is worse than anything we have ever seen from the coalition, and it's up there with the levels of allegations we saw against Russia a year ago," said Chris Woods, the investigative journalist who heads Airwars. "Something is shifting—a lot more civilians are dying, and it's happening on Donald Trump's watch."
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