Sec. 1055. Report on civilian casualties from Department of Defense strikes
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For each calendar year, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on strikes carried out by the Department of Defense against terrorist targets located outside Government-designated areas of active hostilities and against enemy combatants located inside Government-designated areas of active hostilities during the period beginning on January 1 and ending on December 31 of the year covered by the report. Such report shall include each of the following, for the period covered by the report:
The number of such strikes carried out in— locations outside Government-designated areas of active hostilities; and locations inside Government-designated areas of active hostilities. An assessment of the combatant and non-combatant deaths resulting from those strikes, including the number of such deaths— occurring outside of Government-designated areas of active hostilities; and occurring within Government-designated areas of active hostilities, with the number of such deaths displayed to indicate the Government-designated country or location within the Government-designated country where such deaths occurred.
To the extent feasible and appropriate, the general reasons for any discrepancies between post-strike assessments from the Department of Defense and credible reporting from nongovernmental organizations regarding non-combatant deaths resulting from such strikes. A description of steps taken by the Department of Defense to mitigate harm to civilians in conducting such strikes. Definitions of the terms combatant and noncombatant as used in the report. The monthly tabulations collected by the Department of Defense of combatant and non-combatant casualties occurring inside of areas of active hostilities, and any revisions to previously reported tabulations.
A specification of the countries where strikes occurred, or locations within countries where strikes occurred— designated as areas of active hostilities; and not designated as areas of active hostilities. The reports required by subsection
(a)shall be submitted as follows: The report for 2018 shall be submitted not later than December 31, 2018. The report for 2019, and for each subsequent year, shall be submitted by not later than March 1 of the year following the year covered by the report. In preparing a report under this section, the Secretary of Defense shall review relevant and credible post-strike all-source reporting, including such information from nongovernmental sources. The reports required under subsection
(a)shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex. The Secretary of Defense shall make the unclassified form of the reports publicly available.