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Airwars Assessment
(Previous Incident Code: S1535a)
In an incident previously untracked by Airwars monitors, in May 2018 the Coalition said that it had assessed a self-report of potential civilian harm at al Shafaa – though had concluded there were no non combatant casualties.
As the official report noted, “February 26, 2018, near al Sha’fah, Syria, via self-report. After a review of available information and strike video it was assessed that there is insufficient evidence to find civilians were harmed in this strike.”
No additional sources for this potential incident are presently known.
Geolocation Notes
Reports of the incident mention the village of Al Sha’fah (الشفعة), for which the generic coordinates are: 34.578932, 40.934637. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.