Pentagon: No ‘credible’ evidence civilians killed

Published September 25, 2014 6:38pm ET



WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military is looking into allegations that civilians may have been killed in U.S. and allied airstrikes in Syria, but so far there is no “credible” reporting that such deaths occurred, the Pentagon said Thursday.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and activists in Syria have said that some civilians were killed in airstrikes on Wednesday, possibly wives and children of militants.

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