The US began its West Asia war campaign in 2001 with soldiers on the ground, along the figures of hundreds of thousands in Iraq and Afghanistan. Among the countries subject to the US's so-called "war on terror" in West Asia and its bordering regions are the following. In 2007 Alan Greenspan wrote, "I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: The Iraq war is largely about oil." On the contrary, organizations like the International Committee of the Red Cross and Amnesty International have documented countless number of cases where airstrikes have killed civilians. There are no probes into the massacres, which means the exact number of civilians killed is unknown.

Source: The North Africa Journal May 02, 2023 05:30 UTC