Cristian Carlos.
The news The New York Times reported this weekend that a US military drone flew over Baghouz, Syria, searching for military targets; however, dozens of women and children were found sheltering on the banks of a river.
The ground attack was carried out by an American F-15E aircraft and dropped a 500-pound (226 kg) bomb, which covered the population in a fireball.
As if that were not enough, the people who managed to survive the first explosion and who were seeking shelter from the area of the first bomb, a jet dropped a second 2 thousand pound bomb –907 kg– which ended up killing most of those who had survived at the beginning.
The events took place on 18 March 2019. The New York TimesHe said several analysts confirmed the deaths of the women and children via chat, giving a total of "about 70 people."
The report says that the attack targeting the Islamic State "was never publicly acknowledged by the US military" and that, in order to cover up the incident, the investigation was delayed internally and preliminary information was withheld from superiors.
The New York Times The paper collected “confidential documents and descriptions from classified reports, as well as interviews with personnel directly involved and officials with top-secret security clearances who discussed the incident on the condition that they not be named.” After the paper forwarded the information to U.S. Central Command for review, it acknowledged the incident “with justification,” saying that 16 people were combatants and “only a small number of civilians were killed,” and that the effects of the bombings were accidental.
The New York Times It concluded that “Satellite imagery from four days later shows that the protected bank and the area around it, which were under coalition control, appeared to have been razed to the ground.” It said the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations declined to comment.
The attacks in Baghouz, Syria, marked the end of the US-led fight against the Islamic State group led by former President Donald Trump.
