just this month. the and central commander said that we are investigating the incident and are going to extraordinary measures to avoid harming civilians. more about this new deployment to iraq in a moment, but what else is the military saying about what happened in mosul? reporter: that s right, the military is now saying they believe there was a strike that took place in the neighborhood in the vicinity where some of these civilian casualties are being reported, they re still doing a credibility assessment which is a review to see what exactly happened. they don t have many people on the ground, u.s. or coalition advisors so they re relying on second-hand reports, but they can confirm that there was a strike in that area of the city on the 17th of march but it was aimed at isis and isis equipment.