'Coalition airstrikes kill 300 civilians in Syria'

The United Kingdom-based non-governmental organization Amnesty International has said that U.S.-led coalition airstrikes killed more than 300 civilians in Syria during the counterterrorism airstrikes against the Daesh terrorist.

The report of Amnesty International contains 11 U.S.-led Coalition attacks.

The NGO accused the U.S.-led coalition for failing to protect civilians and called for independent investigations into possible violations of international law.

“We fear the U.S.-led Coalition is significantly underestimating the harm caused to civilians in its operations in Syria,” said Lynn Maalouf, Deputy Director for Research at Amnesty International's Beirut regional office.

“Analysis of available evidence suggests that in each of these cases, the coalition forces failed to take adequate precautions to minimize harm to civilians and damage to civilian objects. Some of these attacks may constitute disproportionate or otherwise indiscriminate attacks,” Maalouf said.

“It's high time the U.S. authorities come clean about the full extent of the civilian damage caused by the coalition attacks in Syria. Independent and impartial investigations must be carried out into any potential violations of international humanitarian law and the findings should be made public,” she said.

Research and documentation by leading human rights and monitoring organizations, including the Syrian Network for Human Rights, Airwars, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Violations Documentation Center, indicate that the total number of civilians killed by coalition forces in Syria since operations began could be as high as 600 or more than 1,000.

The Syrian civil war, which is expected to be ended soon, left more than 250 thousand people killed, according to the United Nations (UN) figures, while, 6.5 million Syrians were evacuated to the safe zone and 5 million emigrated.