U.S. Won’t Admit to Killing a Single Civilian in the ISIS War

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Civilian deaths, a keystone metric of the last war in Iraq, has now become the statistic no one wants to talk about.

Published Jan. 24 2015 6:55AM EST

articles/2015/01/24/u-s-won-t-admit-to-killing-a-single-civilian-in-the-isis-war/150120-youssef-syria-deaths-tease_r6k5jd — JM Lopez/AFP/Getty

Five months and 1,800-plus strikes into the U.S. air campaign against ISIS, and not a single civilian has been killed, officially. But Pentagon officials concede that they really have no way of telling for sure who has died in their attacks‚—and admit that no one will ever know how many...

Nancy A. Youssef

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U.S. Won’t Admit to Killing a Single Civilian in the ISIS War

Civilian deaths, a keystone metric of the last war in Iraq, has now become the statistic no one wants to talk about.

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Nancy A. Youssef