The US-led coalition says more than 1,250 civilians were killed in 34,038 airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria during a more than four-year period.<br />''  <br />''The coalition in a statement yesterday released the civilian death toll from the period between when the aerial campaign began in August 2014 until February this year.<br />'' <br />''<span style="color: #222222;">It comes just days after the U.S.-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces announced it defeated IS in the last area it held in Syria in the village of Baghouz near the Iraqi border. </span><br />