While the Western-led coalitions in Mosul and Raqqa utili...

The increase was particularly dramatic in west Mosul and high among males. The leading cause of reported deaths among the 505 who died from intentional violence was airstrikes—accounting for 201 civilian deaths in survey households—followed by 172 deaths from explosions.

Residents escaping besieged western Mosul have told of Iraqi and U.S.-led coalition air strikes demolishing buildings and killing civilians in several cases. The insurgents have also used civilians as human shields and opened fire on them as ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon, facing accusations that a coalition air strike may have killed scores of civilians in the Iraqi city of Mosul, said on Monday it was not loosening its rules of engagement in the fight against Islamic State but that resources to investigate claims were limited. Eyewitnesses from Mosul and Iraqi officials have said last week's strike on Islamic State targets may have collapsed homes where rescue officials say as many as 200 people were buried in the rubble.

The human rights group reported, external earlier on Tuesday that it had found evidence on the ground in Mosul pointing to an "alarming pattern" of air strikes that had "destroyed whole houses with entire families inside". Coalition officials have so far not commented on the Amnesty report, but they have previously insisted they take all reasonable precautions to reduce the risk of harm to civilians. ... Iraqi pro-government forces launched an offensive to recapture the city - the last major IS urban stronghold in the country - five months ago.

For the people of Mosul, the ... with hidden explosives by Islamic State militants and dotted with the remnants of undetonated bombs dropped by the U.S.-led coalition that still could blow up....

And we cross-referenced them and were able to come up with that range, from 9,000 to 11,000 civilians killed during the battle to retake Mosul. That's from October of 2016 until July of 2017, when the city was declared liberated.

A morgue in Mosul, Iraq, documented more than 5,000 civilians killed during the battle to free the city from ISIS — likely more than the number of ISIS fighters that died.

The US has previously admitted that coalition jets were bombing in the area that day and launched a formal investigation into why three buildings, in which civilians were hiding, had been hit. ... While there have been reports of Isis troops setting booby traps in other homes as they flee Mosul, locals who survived, or witnessed, the strikes said they are in no doubt that bombs dropped from jets caused the devastation ...

The target, according to the caption, was a car-bomb factory, a hub in a network of “multiple facilities spread across Mosul used to produce VBIEDs for ISIL’s terrorist activities,” posing “a direct threat to both civilians and Iraqi security forces.” Later, when he found the video, Basim could watch only the first few frames. He knew immediately that the buildings were his and his brother’s houses. Coalition video of the airstrike on the homes of Basim and Mohannad Razzo.