The Civilian Harm Watchdog
Casualty Recording
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Sanjana Varghese
9 Oct, 2024
Investigations, Policy
Israel, Palestinian territories
The Killings They Tweeted
Matching Israeli military strike footage to civilian casualties on the ground to reveal full human cost of 'precise' campaign
7 Mar, 2024
Investigations, Policy
Afghanistan
The bombing of Quala 4131
Visual retelling of 2007 Dutch bombing in Afghanistan that killed at least 11 civilians, later ruled unlawful by Dutch court
8 Sep, 2023
Investigations
Ukraine
A year of the Shahed
How Russia turned to a cheap Iranian-made suicide drone to terrorise civilians and hit infrastructure across Ukraine
20 Jun, 2023
Investigations
Ukraine
Will German electronics end up in Russian drones?
German tech parts found their way to Russian military drones despite sanctions, flowing through shadowy networks of middlemen and shell companies
21 Mar, 2023
Investigations, Policy
Iraq, Syria
The hidden casualties of Britain’s war
The UK claims to have killed only one civilian in the war on ISIS. Airwars found otherwise
1 Feb, 2023
Policy, Research
Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, Yemen
US airstrikes fell to historic low in 2022, despite fresh operations
The overall number of declared US airstrikes across all monitored military theatres fell from 441 in 2021 to a minimum of 36 in 2022
23 Jan, 2023
Investigations
Syria
‘Waiting to happen’
An ISIS prison break - and the American mistakes that made it more likely
13 Jun, 2022
Investigations
Syria
A year on, Airwars investigation into Afrin hospital attack reveals crucial details
A horrifying attack on a hospital in the Syrian city of Afrin left 19 people dead – and the perpetrators are still unknown.
31 Mar, 2022
Investigations, Research
Iraq, Syria
The US has quietly restarted admitting to killing civilians in Iraq and Syria
The US-led International Coalition has quietly admitted to killing 18 more civilians in Iraq and Syria and injuring a further 11, its first such public concession in eight months. On March 10th, Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) – the US-led coalition against the so-called Islamic State – quietly released on its website its first public civilian […]
22 Mar, 2022
Investigations, Policy
Syria, Ukraine
How Russia is using tactics from the Syrian playbook in Ukraine
Entire settlements reduced to rubble, attacks on civilian targets and the bombing of refugee exit routes were all part of Moscow’s brutal Syria campaign
15 Mar, 2022
Investigations
Ukraine
Civilian status in the Ukraine conflict: a rough guide
Do citizens who take up arms to resist Russian invasion lose protected status? A layperson's guide to the lines between civilians, militants and soldier.
8 Dec, 2021
Policy, Report
“Why did they bomb us?” Urban civilian harm in Gaza, Syria and Israel from explosive weapons use
‘Why did they bomb us?’ Urban civilian harm in Gaza, Syria and Israel from explosive weapons use‘ – which is published in Arabic, Hebrew and English – provides the first comparative analysis of two very different Israeli military campaigns. Applying the same open source monitoring methodology Airwars uses to track civilian harm caused by the […]