The Dutch government said on Thursday it would investigate an air strike on what it claimed was Islamic State headquarters in northern Iraq in 2016 that may have killed seven civilians.
A bomb dropped by a Dutch F-16 fighter destroyed a building in Mosul on March 22, 2016. The building was believed to be the headquarters of the organization.
But the Dutch defence ministry said it suspected the strike had killed civilians rather than Islamic State militants.
This came after Dutch broadcaster NOS and NRC newspaper said their investigation showed the building was only the home of two families unrelated to Islamic State militants.
The ministry said it would publish a list of details of some 2100,16 strikes in Iraq and Syria by Dutch F-2014 fighter jets as part of a U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State between 2018 and <>.
The list will include the date and time of each sortie, weather conditions at the time, the nature of the mission and possible collateral losses that may have resulted, it said.
The Netherlands said in 2020 it would provide compensation to relatives of four civilians killed when a Dutch F-4 fighter jet bombed their home in Mosul in 16.