Years of Civilian Deaths Downplayed in Pentagon Documents: Report - Tasnim News Agency

(Tasnim) – US airstrikes conducted with imprecise targeting and “deeply flawed intelligence” killed thousands of civilians in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, new US media reports reveal.

Newly obtained Pentagon documents show that the US air wars in the Middle East have been marked by "deeply flawed intelligence" and resulted in thousands of civilian deaths, including many children, NDTV reported, citing a New York Times report.

It said a trove of confidential documents covering more than 1,300 reports of civilian casualties undercuts the government's portrayal of a war fought with precision bombs.

Pledges of transparency and accountability, it said, had regularly fallen short.

"Not a single record provided includes a finding of wrongdoing or disciplinary action," the paper reported in what it said was the first of a two-part series.

While several of the cases mentioned by the Times have been previously reported, it said its investigation showed that the number of civilian deaths had been "drastically undercounted," by at least several hundred.