The New York Times, citing their sources, reported that the United States military was silent about the air strikes in Syria, which killed 70 civilians in 2019.
According to the authors of the material, on March 18, 2019, an American F-15E attack aircraft, without warning, dropped a 500-pound bomb on residents in the city of Baguz – a crowd of about 70 women and children.
“After that, the plane that followed them dropped a bomb weighing 2,000 pounds, then another, which killed most of the survivors,” the article says.
The Times investigation revealed that the airstrike was initiated by the secret US special operations unit Task Force 9, which was in charge of ground operations in Syria.
The authors also argue that the Baguz strike was one of the largest civilian casualties in the war against terrorists, but it has never been publicly acknowledged by the US military. Moreover, the military concealed the real number of civilians from the strike, classified the reports and leveled the explosion site with a bulldozer.
Data on this incident was collected by The New York Times over several months based on confidential documents and descriptions of classified reports, as well as interviews with directly involved personnel and officials.