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| Dozens of civilians were killed in an airstrike on the Islamic State-held town of Qaim in Iraq on Wednesday, local MPs and medics told Reuters, adding that many women and children were among the dead. | Dozens of civilians were killed in an airstrike on the Islamic State-held town of Qaim in Iraq on Wednesday, local MPs and medics told Reuters, adding that many women and children were among the dead. |
| The airstrike reportedly hit a busy market in the small town, which is located in Anbar province, near the Syrian border. | |
| Anbar lawmaker, Ahmed al-Salmani, and medical sources told Reuters that 55 civilians were killed. | |
| It is not yet clear whose planes carried out the reported strike. | |
| Airstrikes against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) have previously been carried out by the US-led coalition, which is helping local security forces in their fight against the terrorists. | |
| Last week, the coalition acknowledged that 54 civilians were “inadvertently killed” in seven of its strikes in Iraq and Syria between March and October this year. | |
| Earlier, Amnesty International said the US understated the civilian death toll, saying that at least 300 people were killed in 11 airstrikes probed by the group. |