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Hundreds of residents in Syrian city reportedly killed by airstrikes on Isis stronghold amid changes in targeting policy under Trump Concerns are mounting over the civilian cost of the US-led coalition’s campaign to reclaim Islamic State’s de facto capital of Raqqa, with reports of airstrikes killing and wounding hundreds of Syrians. The reports, which cannot be definitively confirmed but are considered reliable by UN officials, raise questions about the US commitment to protect civilians in the battle amid the reported loosening of the rules of engagement under President Donald Trump. Airwars estimated that 119 children had been killed in the campaign to liberate Raqqa city, out of an estimated 340 civilian casualties in June and July, with casualties rising sharply in recent weeks. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitoring organisation, estimates that 523 civilians have died in two months of fighting. In its monthly casualty report late last week, the coalition said that it “takes all reports of civilian casualties seriously” but that the total number of civilian deaths it deemed credible since the launch of its operations in August 2014 stood at 151, after nearly 23,000 airstrikes.