聯軍空襲在伊拉克和敘利亞造成64名平民死亡
The United States military said Wednesday its airstrike campaign targeting Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria killed 64 civilians and injured 8 others during the past year.
美國軍方星期三說，過去一年來，針對伊拉克和敘利亞的“伊斯蘭國”激進分子發動的空襲行動造成64名平民喪生，八人受傷。
The new numbers released by U.S. Central Command bring the official total number of civilians killed since the operation began in August 2014 to 119 with another 37 injured.
最新數字由美軍中央司令部發布。自2014年8月空襲行動開始以來，官方統計的總平民死亡數爲119人，37人受傷。
Rights groups and monitors say the real number is much higher. Amnesty International reported in October that airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition appeared to have killed more than 300 people in Syria alone during the past two years.
人權組織和觀察機構表示，實際數字要高得多。國際特赦組織10月說，過去兩年中，美國領導的聯軍發動的空襲僅在敘利亞就造成了300多人喪生。
Pentagon data shows U.S. forces are responsible for about two-thirds of all coalition airstrikes.
五角大樓的數據顯示，美軍的行動在聯軍發動的所有空襲中佔約三分之二。
Wednesday's new casualty figures do not include an airstrike in July in the northern Syrian city of Manbij, where residents and rights groups said more than 50 civilians were killed. The U.S. military is still investigating that attack.
星期三披露的最新傷亡數字不包括7月在敘利亞北部城市曼比傑發動的一次空襲。當地居民和人權組織稱，空襲造成50多名平民遇難。美國軍方仍在對那次襲擊進行調查。
Central Command spokesman Col. John Thomas said there are teams that work to prevent "unintended civilian casualties."
中央司令部發言人約翰·托馬斯上校說，有專門的團隊負責防止“誤傷平民”的事件發生。
"Sometimes civilians bear the brunt of military action but we do all we can to minimize those occurrences even at the cost of sometimes missing the chance to strike valid targets in real time," he said in a statement.
他在一份聲明中說：“有時軍事行動會殃及平民，但我們儘可能將這種情況發生的機率降到最低，即使這樣做會讓我們失去打擊目標的機會。”
Since the airstrikes began -- first in Iraq in August 2014, then in Syria a month later -- there have been more than 16,000 by the coalition at a cost of about $12 million per day. In October, the coalition reported an average of about 10 airstrikes each day in both Iraq and Syria.
自從對伊拉克和敘利亞的空襲分別於2014年8月和9月開始以來，聯軍總共發動了一萬六千餘次空襲，平均每天花費約120萬美元。 今年10月，聯軍的報告稱，在伊拉克和敘利亞平均每天發動大約十次空襲。
