According to a tally the USA dropped around 23,144 bombs on Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia in 2015.
Council of Foreign Relations, Micah Zenko recently tallied up how many bombs the United States has dropped on other countries since January 1, 2015.
The New York-based think tank said that despite 'the fact that the U.S. dropped 947 bombs in Afghanistan in 2015, a recent analysis in Foreign Policy magazine found that the Taliban control more territory in Afghanistan than at any point since 2001'.
About 77 percent of the U.S. airstrikes targeted ISIL in Iraq and Syria.
Zenko also noted was the complete lack of civilian deaths being tallied as a result of those 23,144 bombs.
The claim is that alongside the 25,000 fighters killed, only 6 civilians have “likely” been killed in the seventeen-month air campaign.
In October, 30 civilians died after the U.S. bombed a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan.
The figure is even more shocking as Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to President Obama last year.
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