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Airwars assessment
Two civilians were wounded in an airstrike on Al A’shara, according to local media – though reports were conflicted as to whether this was the work of the US-led Coalition or Russia.
According to sources, the residential neighbourhood was struck with cluster bombs – believed to be Russian.
Fresh Syria pointed at the Coalition, while Euphrates Post – who was among some other sources in not identifying the culprit – named the two victims.
However, @alhdth2, Jisrtv, @MasarPressNet all blamed Russian cluster bombs.
A single source suggested there were civilian casualties from the incipient, however no specific numbers were reported.
There are no other details at this time.
The incident occured at 02:30:00 local time.
The victims were named as:
Summary
Sources (12) [ collapse]
Attached to this civilian harm incident is a provisional reconciliation of the Pentagon's declassified assessment of this civilian harm allegation, based on matching date and locational information.
The declassified documents were obtained by Azmat Khan and the New York Times through Freedom of Information requests and lawsuits filed since March 2017, and are included alongside the corresponding press release published by the Pentagon. Airwars is currently analysing the contents of each file, and will update our own assessments accordingly.
US-led Coalition Assessment:
Civilian casualty statements
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After a review of available information it was assessed that no Coalition strikes were conducted in the geographical area that correspond to the report of civilian casualties.
Original strike reports
For July 31st – August 1st: “ Near Dayr Az Zawr, three strikes destroyed 13 ISIS oil stills, an oil storage barrel and an ISIS chemical weapons factory.“
‘Monday 31 July – Typhoons attacked a Daesh defensive position and two sniper teams in Raqqa…Royal Air Force Tornado, Typhoon and Reaper aircraft have continued to fly daily armed reconnaissance missions against Daesh over Syria and Iraq, and have delivered a number of air strikes against terrorist targets in Raqqa. On Monday 31 July, two flights of Typhoons, based at RAF Akrotiri, delivered successful attacks with Paveway IV guided bombs against a defensive position from which Daesh were firing on the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), and against two sniper teams.’
Russian Military Assessment:
Original strike reports
Russia has not reported any strikes between July 1st – 31st 2017.