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Anti-ISIL 'Shooting in the Dark' in Iraq Cause a Lot of Civilian Deaths

© AP PhotoIn this Sunday, July 19, 2015 photo, smoke rises following a U.S.-led coalition airstrike against Islamic State group positions as a bulldozer belonging to the Iraqi security forces backed by Shiite and pro-government Sunni fighters is deployed for fighting against Islamic State group militants in Tash district in southern Ramadi, Anbar province, Iraq
In this Sunday, July 19, 2015 photo, smoke rises following a U.S.-led coalition airstrike against Islamic State group positions as a bulldozer belonging to the Iraqi security forces backed by Shiite and pro-government Sunni fighters is deployed for fighting against Islamic State group militants in Tash district in southern Ramadi, Anbar province, Iraq - Sputnik International
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The US-led coalition is "shooting in the dark" in its operations in Syria and Iraq, causing the high numbers of civilian deaths, Eric Garris, director of Antiwar.com nonprofit foundation told Sputnik.

MOSCOW (Sputnik), Alexander Mosesov – On Monday, US Department of State deputy spokesperson Mark Toner told journalists that the government was reviewing a report by a monitoring group claiming that more than 450 civilians have been killed in the US-led coalition’s airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.

"It’s fairly typical of the way the US operates, unless you are having pinpointed, intelligence-driven airstrikes which occasionally are done but are very, very difficult, especially in the situation when they are bombing Syria or ISIS-held Iraq, they are basically just shooting in the dark."

The US-led coalition has acknowledged only two non-combatant deaths in the course of the operation against the Islamic State.

A US-led international coalition has conducted more than 5,600 airstrikes against the Islamic State since August 2014.

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