Geolocation
Airwars assessment
On December 27, 2016, as many as three civilians, including a child, were killed, and several others were wounded in alleged Russian airstrikes which occured near the Shuaib Mosque, in the densely populated residential neighborhood of Al-Qusour, in the west of the city of Idlib, in northwestern Syria. All sources attributed blame to Russia for these incidents.
Hadi Albahra reported the incident in a post on Twitter/X and indentified the child who was killed as 3-year-old boy, Tim Rajab. Hadi also shared an image of the ruins of a building following the alleged strike.
A Twitter/X account, @M_Alhorane, identified the location of the strike as being near the Shuaib Mosque in Al-Qusour.
Footage shows huge amounts of material damage and a crater in the aftermath of the incident.
There are no other details at this time.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
The victims were named as:
Geolocation notes
Reports of the incident mention the city of Idlib (ادلب), for which the generic coordinates are: 35.9266201, 36.6180588. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.
Summary
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The aftermath of alleged Russian airstrikes on Idlib, 27th December 2016. (via @hadialbahra)
Russian Military Assessment:
Original strike reports
Russia has not reported any specific strikes between December 1st – 31st 2016.
On 6 January 2017, Russia, however, reported: “Since November 8, 2016, the aircraft carrier group of the Northern Fleet consisting of the heavy aircraft carrying cruiser Admiral Kuznetsov, the heavy nuclear missile cruiser Pyotr Velikiy, the large ASW ship Severomorsk, as well as auxiliary vessels of the Black Sea Fleet, has been fulfilling counterterrorist missions on the territory of Syria”, adding that ”in the course of two months of their participation in the combat actions, naval aviation pilots have carried out 420 combat sorties, 117 of them were night ones.”