As US Bombs Iraq and Syria, Who Exactly Is Being Killed?

As US Bombs Iraq and Syria, Who Exactly Is Being Killed? | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community 

The U.S. military and government have provided virtually no information about civilian and combatant casualties and have denied on-the-ground reports that innocent people are being killed and wounded in the escalating attacks, which allegedly focus on Islamic State (referred to as ISIL or ISIS) targets.
But this official version of events is contradicted by mounting reports from Syria. As recently as Monday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights announced that overnight U.S. coalition bombings of alleged ISIS positions in northern and eastern Syria took civilian lives, the exact number unspecified. Observatory director Rami Abdurrahman told theAssociated Press that a strike on a grain silo in the town of Manbij in Aleppo province "killed only civilians there, workers at the site. There was no ISIS inside." He added that the bombings "destroyed the food that was stored there."