The United
States in the past year dropped more than 20,000 bombs on
Muslim-majority countries Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen
and Somalia, according to a study by the Council on Foreign Relations
(CFR).
In an
article published January 7, Micah Zenko, a senior fellow at CFR,
states that since January 1, 2015, the United States has dropped an
estimated 23,144 bombs in those six countries: 22,110 in Iraq and
Syria; 947 in Afghanistan; 58 in Yemen; 18 in Somalia; and 11 in
Pakistan.
Despite
dropping tens of thousands of bombs over the past 17 months,
Washington's strategy has failed to defeat Daesh and other Islamic
militant groups, Zenko observed.
In
Afghanistan, the Taliban control more territory than at any point
since the 2001 US invasion, according to a recent analysis in Foreign
Policy magazine.
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