US drone strike in Syria under investigation for possible civilian casualty.
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A US drone strike in northwest Syria on May 3 targeted a senior al-Qaeda leader, but relatives of a man killed in the same area on the same day have come forward, saying he was a family man with no links to militancy. Loutfi Hassan Mesto was herding his sheep when he was killed, leaving behind 10 children. The US military is investigating whether a civilian was killed in the strike, which was carried out in an area still recovering from a devastating earthquake. The issue of civilian casualties is a sensitive one for the Pentagon, following a drone strike in Afghanistan that killed 10 civilians.
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