Sentences with phrase «of civilian casualties»

However U.S. commanders say the precision weapons used by the air force have meant an overall decrease in the number of civilian casualties from combat operations as fewer people have been killed in ground fighting.

In a series of e-mail exchanges with Science, ISAF officials confirmed that such a tracking system does exist and that its output is an internal database of civilian casualties called CIVCAS.

The resignation of the Foreign Office minister will be a huge embarrassment for Cameron, who was warned recently that centrist Tories were uncomfortable with his unwavering support for Israel despite the extent of civilian casualties in Gaza.

In January, [military officials] provided Science with a database of civilian casualties called CIVCAS.

The Pentagon is currently uncertain as to whether or not the airstrike was successful in eliminating the senior leader, although it noted that there was no sign of civilian casualties.

As reports of civilian casualties mount, we see that, just as Jesus warned, human attempts to «root out evil» on our own, by force, result in the destruction of innocent lives.

The Justice Department's core argument is that the U.S. is likely to have only «a limited window of opportunity within which to defend Americans in a manner that has both a likelihood of success and sufficiently reduces the probabilities of civilian casualties.»

UNHCR reported in 2015 there estimates of civilian casualties in the Syrian conflict but didn't specify who killed them

According to the Commissioner of Police Borno state, Mr. Damian Chuckwu while addressing newsmen at the scene of the blasts in Maiduguri on Friday, said no record of civilian casualties except the bombers.

I was given access to military personnel at every level of the civilian casualty — tracking system, from the collection and quality - checking of CIVCAS data to the analysis that leads to new combat directives.

«Therefore we take every allegation of a civilian casualty very seriously.»

A military data set of civilian casualties, provided exclusively to Science, indicates that the war has become more lethal to the Afghan population, largely because of indiscriminate insurgent attacks.

Most contentious is the issue of civilian casualties.

The US - led coalition's air campaign against ISIS has attracted intense scrutiny for the number of civilian casualties it is believed to have caused.

[7] Air strikes carry a real risk of civilian casualties — which should be uppermost in our minds — but this is a tiny fraction of the civilian suffering likely to result from continued ISIS control.

The capital Kabul is now the most dangerous province for civilians - 19 % of civilian casualties in the country in 2016 were in the region.

Some of these launching pits are located in areas near hospitals and schools in the heart of populated areas and institutions attended by a large number of people, making them difficult to attack because of the risk of civilian casualties.

«There is no frontline fighting or shelling any longer; and the number of civilian casualties has gone down.

Humanitarian agencies say Iraq's hospitals are reaching breaking point, as the battle for Baghdad causes the number of civilian casualties to rise rapidly.