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Russian Foreign Ministry Wants Probe Into US-Led Coalition Airstrikes in Iraq

© Sputnik / Natalia Seliverstova / Go to the mediabankThe Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Smolenskaya-Sennaya Square in Moscow.
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Smolenskaya-Sennaya Square in Moscow. - Sputnik International
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All US-led coalition airstrikes on civilian targets in Iraq should be investigated in full, the Russian Foreign Ministry's commissioner for human rights said Monday.

Smoke rises from Islamic State group positions after an airstrike by U.S.-led coalition warplanes in Fallujah, as Iraqi security forces and allied Shiite Popular Mobilization Forces and Sunni tribal fighters, take combat positions outside Fallujah, 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 23, 2016 - Sputnik International
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) Moscow has provided concrete evidence of continuing civilian casualties caused by US-led air raids in Syria and Iraq, Foreign Ministry Commissioner for Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law Konstantin Dolgov noted.

"We continue saying that the coalition's actions in this part violate international law, and that it is necessary to investigate all these cases," Dolgov said at a briefing hosted by the Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency.

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