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Emran Feroz is an Afghan-Austrian journalist currently based in Stuttgart, Germany. He is regularly writing from Afghanistan, often focusing on the Middle East, Central Asia, drone warfare, refugee policies and human rights. Emran is writing in both German and English. His work has already appeared in international media outlets such as Al Jazeera, The Intercept, Alternet, The Atlantic or the New York Times and in various German and Austrian news papers and magazines.
The American War Against ISIS Killed Much More Civilians Than We Thought
Stellar work by Anand Gopal and Azmat Khan in the NYT Magazine.
While the Pentagon claims that its air war against ISIS is one of the most accurate in history, and that it is so careful in who it targets that the 14,000 US airstrikes in Iraq have killed just 89 civilians, these two journalists prove the opposite.
In an 18-month-long investigation, Gopal and Khan have found that the US-led military coalition is killing civilians in Iraq at a rate 31 times higher than it’s admitting.
From April 2016 to June 2017, Khan and Gopal traveled to nearly 150 sites in three ISIS-controlled areas in Northern Iraq.
“It is at such a distance from official claims that, in terms of civilian deaths, this may be the least transparent war in recent American history,” they report.
Such an investigation is rare, and a must-read.
It makes clear how little is known about the realities of the American "War on Terror". While reading, you also have to ask yourself what the results would look like if journalists did the same precise work on the ground in Afghanistan, Syria or in other countries.
