25 March 2017•Update: 26 March 2017
NINEVEH, Iraq
At least 12 civilians were killed and another seven injured Saturday in a U.S.-led international coalition airstrike on a Daesh terrorist group car bomb in Iraq’s northern city of Mosul, an army officer said.
A coalition airstrike hit an explosive-laden car in Hadid area in southern Mosul, Brigadier General Abdul-Ghani al-Hilali, an army officer, said.
The death toll includes women and children.
“Dealing with Daesh’s armed targets in the residential areas have become almost impossible to take place without civilian casualties,” al-Hilali said.
In mid-February, Iraqi ground forces -- backed by U.S.-led coalition air power -- began fresh operations aimed at ousting Daesh militants from western Mosul, the terrorist group’s last bastion in northern Iraq.
The offensive is part of a wider campaign launched last October to retake the entire city, which Daesh overran in mid-2014.
