<span style="color: #222222;">Amnesty International and the Airwars monitoring group on Thursday reported that Intensive US-led coalition bombardment on the Syrian city of Raqa has killed more than 1,600 civilians over four months in 2017. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The agencies said that the coalition has admitted to around 10 per cent of those deaths.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The findings were compiled after months of field research and extensive data analysis, including via a project that saw 3,000 digital activists scan satellite imagery online. The agencies urged top coalition members to show more transparency and accountability. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The coalition responded by saying it investigated reports submitted to it by various sources, including Amnesty, and complied with international humanitarian law.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">In mid-2017, Raqa had been the de facto Syria capital of the Islamic State group's cross-border caliphate for three years and the US-led coalition launched a military campaign to crush the jihadists in their main remaining hub.</span><br />''