Centcom Revises Civilian Casualties in Anti-ISIS Airstrikes to 1,139

The U.S. military announced Sunday it had revised the estimate of civilians inadvertently killed in airstrikes during the campaign against ISIS, reporting at least 1,139 civilians died in those attacks.

In a statement, U.S. Central Command said the military carried out 31,406 airstrikes between August 2014 and November 2018 during Operation Inherent Resolve. 

But it said it determined three more incidents contained credible reports of 15 civilian casualties — including a secondary explosion following the destruction of an explosives factory in Mosul, Iraq that killed 12 civilians in March 2017. 

In total, the US-led alliance confirms at least 1,139 civilian deaths since the war against ISIS began in 2014, Central Command reported.

The military said there are still 184 reports of civilian casualties being assessed.

Airwars, a watchdog group that monitors civilian casualties from military operations in Iraq, Syria and Libya, said it had referred all three new confirmed instances.

The watchdog group's own estimate of civilian casualties is higher than the U.S. military's report; the group estimates between 7,316 and 11,637 civilians have died in U.S.-led operations in Iraq and Syria. 

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