A US-led military coalition admitted Thursday that more than 1,000 civilians in Iraq and Syria had been killed by coalition airstrikes since the alliance was established four years.

According to a coalition report released Thursday, the alliance has carried out some 30,000 airstrikes in Iraq and Syria since ISIL terrorist group overran vast swathes of both countries in mid-2014.

The report goes on to assert that at least 1,061 civilians in both countries were “unintentionally” killed as a direct result of the strikes.

The US-led coalition of more than 70 countries is allegedly conducting military operations against ISIL Takfiri militants in Syria and Iraq. The coalition’s operations in Syria are not authorized by the government of President Bashar Assad or the UN Security Council.

Source: Agencies