Damascus demands the US pay for a 2019 Baghuz airstrike that constitutes an alleged US war crime due to civilian casualties. The Pentagon claims no-fault as Syrian demands all American forces leave the country.

Crimes Against Syrian Civilians

The Syrian permanent mission to the United Nations asserted on Friday that the US must remove its troops from Syria and compensate for the lives lost after an airstrike in the town of Baghuz in 2019, reported RT.

Pentagon officials claimed they were not to blame for the attack, asserting their findings amounted to the admittance of carelessness that begged responsibility.

A report released by the Pentagon published last Tuesday claimed March 18, 2019; the aerial attack targeting an Islamic State camp that used to be ISIS, ISIL in Baghuz. US officials deny the 70 dead weren't a result of violating rules of engagement in war, cited Al Jazeera.

According to Washington's assessment, only four of the 56 people who died in the 500-pound bomb blast were civilians.

This report remarked civilians were in the blast zone, which was likely to result in civilian casualties, dropping the massive bomb demonstrated concern for non-combatants. Obama era classified all military-age males as combatants, defining who is a terrorist.

Syria Demands Accountability

Based on the Syrian UN mission that denied the Pentagon's attempts to make it appear the US occupation forces in Syria did not fault the civilian casualties caused by fighting the ISIS militants.

Damascus attacked the claim of the Pentagon that it had tried to distinguish who is ISIS and civilians in the 2019 Baghuz Airstrike was not a US war crime; as an excuse to kill Syrian citizens, noted Daily Telegraph.

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The mission called the one-sided probe as crimes against humanity were on the side of the US last Friday, as mentioned by Newsweek.

Furthermore, the deployment of US forces in Syria is not legal, and they also do not have the authority to launch an attack if the Syrian Arab country does not agree.

Later, the report cleared the US military of any fault but was not declassified; a two-page summary is available to the public.

The allegation of an attempt to hide proof was bulldozed through initial internal reports that got delayed, sanitized, and classified as stated by the New York Times.

Findings stand in contrast with claims made by US personnel on the ground at the time, including one military analyst supposedly asserting that dropping a 500-pound bomb on 50 women and children and others, remarking a war crime was witnessed.

In a previous admission, the US Central Command confessed that 80 people were slain in the strike, with 16 ISIS militants killed. To escape fault, the US defended that 60 were possible terrorists; explain that militants allowed women and children fighters.

Many international civil society organizations have slammed the Pentagon's civilian casualty reporting protocols for their lack of teeth after the US approved an attack in Afghanistan, killing an Afghan NGO worker and nine family members.

Even though seven children were incorrectly identified as ISIS, no fault was found with the Biden administration.

Damascus maintains the 2019 Baghuz Airstrike is a US war crime despite claims by the Department of Defense that there is no context to the claim.

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