The Pentagon has admitted after an internal investigation that the United States mistakenly killed a civilian in Syria in a drone strike last year, the newspaper “Washington Post” reported today, quoted by Reuters and BTA.
The assessment of the Central Command of the armed forces of the United States confirms the thesis in publications in the American publication that the initial claim that a high-ranking commander of the terrorist network al-Qaeda was eliminated turned out to be false.
A 56-year-old shepherd who was mistaken for a terrorist leader was killed in the airstrike, according to the conclusions of the internal investigation.
The findings underscore the Pentagon's continuing difficulty in avoiding accidental casualties, even though the administration of US President Joe Biden had vowed to end such incidents, notes the "Washington Post".