Australian Pilots Pull Out of IS Airstrikes Fearing Civilian Deaths: Reports

Australia's Super Hornet pilots have pulled out of their first armed airstrikes in the US-led fight against the Islamic State in Iraq, saying that the risk of killing civilians was too high, Australia's News Limited reported Wednesday. "One of our packages on the first night,had an identified target which it was tracking and that target moved into an urban area where the risks of conducting a strike on that target increased to a point where it exceeded our expectations of the collateral damage."

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