US secrecy over the killing of Syrian women and children under the guise of fighting ISIS.
In March 2019, the United States carried out an airstrike on a city in Syria that killed more than 60 civilian women and children and hid the incident, the US newspaper reported, citing classified documents.
According to Fars News Agency’s International Group, while the repeated claims of the United States and its allies in the so-called anti-ISIS coalition about fighting this terrorist group in Syria and Iraq have become clear to everyone, now a new report on Washington’s secrecy about its crimes in Syria It’s been published.
The New York Times reported Saturday night that the US military had concealed in 2019 airstrikes in Syria that killed 64 women and children and were a potential war crime during the alleged fight against ISIS.
According to the report, two airstrikes in a row near the city of Baghuz at the time were ordered by a US special operations unit tasked with ground operations in Syria.
The newspaper wrote that the US Central Command (Centcom terrorist organization), which oversaw the country’s air operations in Syria, confirmed the attacks for the first time this week, claiming that they were justified.
The Centcom terrorist organization, in a statement issued on Saturday, reiterated a report it had given to the New York Times, claiming that 80 people had been killed in the attacks, including 16 ISIL fighters and four civilians. However, the US military said it was unclear whether the other 60 were civilians, as women and children could also be fighters.
According to Reuters, the US military claims the attacks were “self-defense” and “appropriate, and that appropriate measures have been taken to ensure that civilians were not murdered”.
However, the New York Times wrote: “The Pentagon’s investigator launched an investigation into the March 18, 2019 incident, but the report eventually declined to mention the bombing and never conducted a full, independent investigation.” .
The newspaper, however, stressed that its report on the killing of Syrian civilian women and children in the US attack was based on classified documents and descriptions of classified reports, as well as interviews with personnel directly involved in the incident.
According to the New York Times, a U.S. Air Force lawyer who was at the operations center at the time believed the attacks might be war crimes and later warned the Pentagon and the Senate Armed Services Committee, but no action was taken. .
The United States has entered the country in the form of an international coalition called ISIL, under the pretext of fighting terrorism, without the permission of the Syrian government, and has occupied parts of the north and east of the country. Damascus and its allies have repeatedly stated that the US military presence in the country is illegal and should be withdrawn from Syria as soon as possible.
During this period, the US military, with the full support of Kurdish separatist groups, incited them to confront Damascus and eventually the disintegration of Syria, while at the same time, with the help of the Kurds, took control of the oil-rich areas of eastern Syria. It robs.
