PhotoA half-century ago, the Pentagon’s misleading claims about civilian deaths in Vietnam eroded public trust and, ultimately, support for the war. The Pentagon is killing far more civilians than it acknowledges, according to a recent report in The New York Times and other findings. View all New York Times newsletters. The Costs of War project at Brown University estimates over 200,000 civilians have been killed in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan since 2001. Most experts attribute a majority of the civilian deaths to extremists.

Source: New York Times November 24, 2017 00:22 UTC