At least 22,679 civilians have been killed in U.S. airstrikes during the last 20 years of the global war on terror, according to the latest figures from the watchdog Airwars. The United Kingdom-based Airwars released its report on civilian deaths Sept. 6 ahead of the 20th anniversary of 9/11. Over the last two decades, the United States has launched at least 91,340 airstrikes spanning seven countries, Airwars said. The most civilian deaths have occurred in Iraq (at least 11,474), followed by Syria (5,731), Afghanistan (4,815), Pakistan (424), Yemen (156), Somalia (72), and Libya (7), according to the Airwars data. The deadliest period was during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, when at least 5,529 civilians were killed in airstrikes, Airwars said. After 2004, civilian deaths from airstrikes largely stayed under 1,000 per year until the rise of ISIS. “Campaigns to force ISIS from the Iraqi city of Mosul and the Syrian city …