The United States has killed five times more Syrian civilians than Russia over the past month, a new report shows.

The US-led coalition airstrikes killed an estimated 254 civilians across Syria in January, while casualties from alleged Russian strikes capped out at 48, conflict monitor Airwars reported Monday, citing the Syrian Network for Human Rights. 

Airwars identified at least 95 separate “civilian casualties” over the same period, which involved US-led aircraft. For Russia, the figure stood at 57.

According to the report, the high casualty from US-led airstrikes comes after Washington and its allies stepped up their bombing campaign in Syria and Iraq.

The so-called coalition has been attacking alleged Daesh positions in the two Arab countries since 2014.

As of December 30, the US and its coalition partners had carried out over 6,000 airstrikes in Syria, without a mandate from the UN or Damascus.

Russia, on the other hand, began its aerial campaign in September 2015 upon a request by the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

In early January, the US military said that it had registered a total of 188 “unintentional deaths” in Syria since the beginning of the campaign.

The number sounded like an understatement compared to similar reports by outside groups.

According to Airwars, for example, more than 2,100 civilians have been killed in Iraq and Syria since the beginning of the US-led campaign.

The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) released a more detailed report in January, putting the estimated civilian casualties from US-led raids at 820, 310 of the children. 

EA