The airstrike in Mosul was potentially one of the worst U.S.-led civilian bombings in 25 years
NOVANEWS
By Thomas Gibbons-Neff
Members of the civil defense search for bodies in the rubble of a building in the Mosul al Jadidah neighborhood of Mosul. (Alice Martins for The Washington Post)
Even though Iraqi civil defense workers are still sorting through the rubble, the March 17 U.S. airstrike in West Mosul, if confirmed, could potentially rank among one of the most devastating attacks on civilians by American forces in more than two decades.
Residents from the neighborhood where the strike occurred said that 137 civilians were killed, while Iraqi officials have said that upward of 80 people had been pulled from the rubble. Chris Woods, the director of the monitoring group Airwars.org, said the range of dead have been reported from 101 to 511, though the likely numbers...