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    U.S. Airstrikes In Somalia May Amount To War Crimes, Says Rights Group

    A new report by Amnesty International alleges that the U.S. killed at least 14 people in five different airstrikes in Somalia. The U.S. says it has never killed or injured a civilian.
    by Eyder Peralta Mar 20, 2019 2 minutes

    The United States may have committed war crimes as it bombed al-Shabab militants in Somalia, a new report Amnesty International alleges.

    Researchers for the human rights group investigated five U.S. airstrikes and found that they had resulted in 14 civilian deaths. The U.S. has "indiscriminately killed some of these civilians," Abdullahi Hassan, a Nairobi-based researcher for Amnesty, said in an interview.

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