U.S. Africa Command says new information reveals that a woman and a child were killed in an American airstrike that was targeting al-Shabab insurgents in Somalia last April.
The information released Friday contradicts military insistence last month that no civilians had been killed in Somalia strikes since 2017, despite charges from an international human rights group that casualties had occurred.
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