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(ANTIWAR.COM) — Heavy US airstrikes in densely populated residential areas have, throughout the ISIS war, proven a recipe for massive civilian casualties.

(ANTIWAR.COM) — 24 hours of US airstrikes against the ISIS capital city of Raqqa, in northern Syria, have killed at least 29 civilians and wounded a large number of others, many of them seriously. The slain include nine women and 14 children.

(ANTIMEDIA Op-ed) — The Canadian government is investigating reports that Saudi Arabia is using armored vehicles made in Canada against its own civilians, the Guardian reports.
At least five people have been killed in recent days as Saudi Arabia reportedly uses Canadian equipment to crack down on “minority Shia dissidents” in eastern Saudi Arabia, according to the Guardian.

(COMMONDREAMS) — A new investigation shows that President Donald Trump’s bombing campaign against ISIS (the Islamic State) over several months has already led to nearly as many civilian deaths as those overseen by the Obama White House over several years.

(ANTIWAR.COM) — The civilian death toll in Afghanistan, some 16 years into the US-led invasion and occupation, continues to rise precipitously, with the most recent figures out of the United Nations showing 1,662 civilians killed in the first half of 2017, the highest civilian toll of the entire war.

(MEE) Scores of civilians were reported on Tuesday to have been killed in what the US coalition said was an attack on Islamic State “command and control” facilities in Syria.

Thick smoke and flames erupt from an airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition in Kobani, Syria, as seen from a hilltop on the outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has issued a report today covering the civilian death toll of US-led coalition airstrikes in Syria over the past month, from May 23 to June 23, reporting at least 472 civilians, the largest in any 30-day period since the US started bombing Syria in 2014.

(ANTIWAR) — Saudi warplanes have attacked northern Yemen’s Sadaa Province, the Shi’ite-dominated home of the Houthi movement, hitting a crowded marketplace in the Shada District, killing at least 25 civilians and wounding an unknown number of others.

(ANTIWAR.COM) — A US military convoy in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar Province was hit by a roadside bomb yesterday, with Pentagon officials quick to insist that no one was wounded in the incident. Three civilians, however, two of them children, were killed in the immediate aftermath.

Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster listens as President Donald Trump speaks at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., Feb. 20, 2017. (AP/Susan Walsh)