The Civilian Casualty Files

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   Hidden Pentagon Records Reveal Patterns of Failure in Deadly Airstrikes

   The promise was a war waged by all-seeing drones and precision bombs. The documents show flawed intelligence, faulty targeting, years of civilian deaths — and scant accountability.

    By Azmat Khan

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      The Civilian Casualty Files

      The New York Times is making public hundreds of the Pentagon’s confidential assessments of reports of civilian casualties resulting from U.S.-led airstrikes in Iraq and Syria.

       By Azmat Khan, Lila Hassan, Sarah Almukhtar and Rachel Shorey

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      Military Responses to Questions About U.S. Airstrikes

      This document contains the United States military’s responses to questions about The Times’s airstrikes investigation. Comments are from Capt. Bill Urban, spokesman for U.S. Central Command.

       

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      What to Know About the Civilian Casualty Files

      A New York Times investigation found that the American air war in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan has been plagued by flawed intelligence, poor targeting and thousands of civilian deaths.

       By Michael Levenson