Human Rights org: U.S. airstrike in Syria killed only civilians, destroyed food supply

Human Rights org: U.S. airstrike in Syria killed only civilians, destroyed food supply
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A U.K.-based human rights organization, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, says that a recent U.S.-led airstrike in Syria resulted in only civilian casualties. The bombing took out silos that U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) maintains were "being used by ISIS as a logistics hub and vehicle staging facility," but which the Observatory maintains was used exclusively for food storage.

"These were the workers at the silos. They provide food for the people," said Rami Abdulrahman of the human rights group. Abdulrahman's report has not yet been verified.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.