One of every\u00a0five airstrikes in Iraq by the US-led anti-Daesh coalition has resulted in a civilian death, according to the New York Times Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n The American daily said the civilian casualties by coalition strikes were 31 times higher than\u00a0Pentagon figures.<\/p>\n \u201cNo matter which threshold we used, though, the results from our sample were consistent: One of every five airstrikes killed a civilian,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n The daily\u2019s reporters visited nearly 150 sites struck by coalition airstrikes in three regions of northern Iraq, it said.<\/p>\n The daily added that investigations in the sites freed of Deash revealed that many of the civilian casualties were not included in the coalition reports, and they were misreported as targets belonging to the terrorist organization.<\/p>\n \u201cAccording to the coalition\u2019s available data, 89 of its more than 14,000 airstrikes in Iraq have resulted in civilian deaths, or about one of every 157 strikes. The rate we found on the ground \u2014 one out of every five \u2014 is 31 times as high,\u201d the daily said.<\/p>\n In most\u00a0regions hit by airstrikes and resulted in civilian death, there were no Deash-targets, the daily added.<\/p>\n According to Airwars, a nonprofit group that tracks civilian casualties in Iraq, Syria and Libya, more than 3,000 civilians were killed in airstrikes in Iraq since Aug. 2014.<\/p>\n The US, however, put the number at 466.<\/p>\n The group said nearly 6,000 civilians were killed in more than 28,000\u00a0US-led anti-coalition airstrikes in Syria and Iraq since Aug. 2014.<\/p>\n \u00a0One of every 5\u2019 US-led airstrikes in Iraq kills civilian One of every\u00a0five airstrikes in Iraq by the US-led anti-Daesh coalition has resulted in a civilian death, according to the New York Times Thursday. The American daily said the civilian casualties by coalition strikes were 31 times higher than\u00a0Pentagon figures. \u201cNo matter which threshold we …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":109376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-te-public"],"yoast_head":"\n<\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"