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HUMAN RIGHTS groups pressed Michael Fallon yesterday to come clean over the number of civilians killed by British air strikes in Syria and Iraq over the past year.
They urged the Defence Secretary to reveal a death toll following his boasts that air strikes have killed around 330 Isis militants in Iraq and Syria from September 2014 to August 2015 but no civilians.
Answering a written question from Green MP Caroline Lucas, Mr Fallon claimed that the government did not believe any civilians had been killed or injured by the strikes against Isis.
As the government quietly upgrades the role of Britain’s special forces, their growing global footprint and near-total exemption from democratic oversight should alarm us all, says ROGER McKENZIE
As the cover-ups collapse, IAN SINCLAIR looks at the shocking testimony from British forces who would ‘go in and shoot everyone sleeping there’ during night raids — illegal, systematic murder spawned by an illegal invasion
