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US-Led Coalition Vows to Investigate Reports of US Jet's Attack on Iraqi School

© AFP 2023 / SAFIN HAMEDA picture taken through a machine gun sight on August 17, 2015 shows buildings that were damaged during fighting between Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and the Islamic State (IS) group's militants in the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar, west of the city of Mosul.
A picture taken through a machine gun sight on August 17, 2015 shows buildings that were damaged during fighting between Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and the Islamic State (IS) group's militants in the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar, west of the city of Mosul. - Sputnik International
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The US-led coalition will investigate information provided by the Russian General Staff on the US jet's attack on a school near Iraqi Mosul, the spokesman for the Operation Inherent Resolve, said Saturday.

Mosul, Iraq. (File) - Sputnik International
US Warplane Attacked School Near Iraqi Mosul, Casualties Reported - Russian MoD
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — On Friday, the Russian General Staff said that a US Air Force jet attacked a school near the Iraqi city of Mosul.

"There are new cases of [US-led] coalition's airstrikes on civilian targets. On October 24, US Air Force's tactical aircraft launched missile and bomb strikes on a school building in the village of Tall Kayf located 14 kilometers north of Mosul at 3:35. As a result of the strike, there are dead and wounded," Lt. Gen. Sergei Rudskoy, chief of the Russian General Staff Main Operational Directorate, said.

"We are aware of the Russian allegations and will investigate to determine if these allegations are credible," the spokesman forthe Operation Inherent Resolve said.

The spokesman added that the coalition adhered to "stringent targeting processes and procedures aimed to minimize risks to non-combatants".

On October 17, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Abadi announced the start of a military operation to recapture Mosul from Daesh with the help of airstrikes by the US-led coalition.

Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry said that targeting mistakes by the member countries of the international coalition occur too often. 

"Weddings, funerals, hospitals, police departments, humanitarian convoys and even Syrian troops, fighting against Daesh terrorists near Deir ez-Zor, become targets for coalition airstrikes," Konashenkov stressed.

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