U.S.-Led Air Campaign Is Linked to Civilian Deaths in Syria

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Source: New York Times

ANTAKYA, Turkey — An airstrike by the American-led military coalition in northern Syria this week killed eight civilians, including two women and five children, according to neighbors and relatives of the dead.

The episode revived accusations by monitoring groups that the United States and its allies are not careful enough about who is killed by the air campaign against militant groups.

The target of the strike, mounted late Tuesday in Atmeh, a village near the Turkish border, was a munitions factory run by an Islamist rebel group. The strike left a yawning crater strewed with mortar shells. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group, said 10 foreign fighters had been killed.

But the explosions also caused the roofs of nearby homes to collapse, witnesses said.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/15/world/middleeast/us-led-air-campaign-is-linked-to-civilian-deaths-in-syria.html?_r=0

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1. Does ANYONE know wtf is going on with this WoT?

Isn't Turkey also targeting the Kurds, now? According to the Kurds, they are.
But aren't the Kurds supposed to be somewhat "the good guys vs ISIS"?
Is the aim "regime change in Syria" or "eliminate ISIS"? How can it be both?
Why do the US trained mercenaries in Syria refuse to fight al-Nusra? Isn't al-Nusra a branch of al-Qaeda?

Can anyone link me to an article/book/treatise anything that might actually explain what's happening and why, in what looks to me to be the most totally insane and incomprehensible US war in all of history?