The senior Pentagon officer overseeing combat operations in Iran told the US Senate that the destruction of an Iranian school, which Iranian officials said killed 175 people, may have been caused by a US bomb and was the only civilian casualty incident he was aware of in a campaign of more than 13,600 strikes.
Admiral Brad Cooper’s testimony suggested he believed the US military’s record since that February 28th strike had been near perfect, a fact belied by investigations from human rights groups and news media organisations.
Senators greeted Cooper’s claims with deep scepticism, and a human rights group that investigates civilian...
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