The US-led coalition against Daesh has determined that seven reports of its airstrikes killing civilians in Iraq and Syria were credible and 54 civilians were killed, the US Central Command said in a report on Thursday, Sputnik reports.
"Four past reports of possible civilian casualties and three of the reports received in October were determined to be credible resulting in the unintended death of 54 civilians," the report stated.
"To date, based on information available, CJTF-OIR [Combined Joint Task Force — Operation Inherent Resolve] has assessed it is more likely than not that, since the start of Operation Inherent Resolve, 173 civilians have been inadvertently killed by coalition strikes," the report stated.
