Civilian casualties escalate in Mosul and Raqqa In the last weeks of the Obama presidency, the U.S.-led air war against so-called Islamic State intensified dramatically — leading to hundreds of likely civilian deaths. Yet in contrast to recent events at Aleppo, international press coverage has been largely absent. Since the official start of operations to capture Mosul on Oct. 17, 2016, Airwars researchers have tracked 91 allegations of civilian casualties from coalition air strikes in and around the city. Of those, 35 claimed events are from just the first 17 days of 2017, as Iraqi forces...