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October 19, 2017

Kelly Defends Trump Phone Call, But Offers Few Details About Deadly Niger Ambush

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Botched condolences from President Trump to a Gold Star widow prompted White House Chief of Staff John Kelly on Thursday to give reporters a play-by-play of the administration’s outreach to grieving military families. Left out of Kelly’s account, however, was the cause of that grieving: an explanation for why a dozen US Army Green Berets were in Niger, when an ambush left four of them dead. “The fact of the matter is,” Kelly told the press, “young men and women that were our uniforms are deployed around…

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More than 1,800 Civilians Killed in Operations to Kick ISIS out of its Capital

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US-backed forces’ caused more than a thousand fatal casualties while expelling the Islamic State (ISIS) from Raqqa, according to monitoring groups. Since operations started in June–on the Syrian capital of the self-proclaimed caliphate–at least 1,352 civilians were killed by coalition air-strikes, according to the London-based non-profit Airwars.org. Citing research from the Syrian Network for Human Rights, the group also said that ISIS militants were responsible for 311 civilian deaths, while US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces were deemed responsible for 191 civilian fatalities. “ISIS put civilians in…

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