The French sustained 200 casualties while allied losses amounted to 550 killed and wounded plus 850 men, seven guns and two munition wagons captured.
According to the watchdog group Airwars, the coalition deployed some twenty thousand munitions during the Raqqa offensive and killed more than thirteen hundred civilians, including at least two hundred and fifty children.
During the past three months, the international coalition, fielding a nine-country armada that includes Australian F-18s, British Typhoons, Italian C-27Js, and American F-16s, Raptors, and B-52s, has launched more than ten thousand munitions.
Wilson told the tech blog Betabeat: "We got an official letter from the Secretary of State, telling me who they were, what their authority was under US law and telling me they want to review these files to see if they're class one munitions.
Experts estimate that only about six munitions a day can be safely removed.
The treaty is weaker for it: together, these three nations have more than a billion cluster munitions stockpiled, far more than the number of weapons expected to be destroyed.
On Monday, investigators said that they had documented the deployment of four types of cluster munitions: two that were dropped from the air and two launched from the ground.
The United Nations and human rights groups have said Israel dropped about 4 million cluster munitions during the 2006 war with Hezbollah.
In Hamdaniya, the SWAT team had seized more than two hundred homemade munitions, along with American anti-tank rockets known, during the Korean War, as super-bazookas.
