White House Says Strict Standards on Civilian Casualties Do Not Apply to Syrian Airstrikes
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South façade of the White House. Photo: Matt H. Wade / WikiCommons.
Yahoo – The White House has acknowledged for the first time that strict standards President Obama imposed last year to prevent civilian deaths from U.S. drone strikes will not apply to U.S. military operations in Syria and Iraq.
A White House statement to Yahoo News confirming the looser policy came in response to questions about reports that as many as a dozen civilians, including women and young children, were killed when a Tomahawk missile struck the village of Kafr Daryan in Syria’s Idlib province on the morning of Sept. 23.
