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Military Actors

Iranian Military

The Iranian military has been directly and indirectly active in a number of modern military conflicts, including in Syria, and is engaged in an ongoing low intensity conflict with Israel.

Airwars has documented dozens of allegations of civilian harm from actions involving Iran-backed militant groups in Syria since 2017.

53 incidents involving Iranian Military

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Incident Date

Incident Code

Location

بين بلدتي كحيل والطيبة, Between Kahil and Al-Taybeh, Daraa, Syria

At around 8 a.m. on Friday morning, 20 June 2025, at least one civilian, a woman named Thuraya Aqab al-Shahadah, was severely injured near a tent between the towns of Kahil and al-Taybeh in the eastern countryside of Daraa, Syria, by falling remnants from an alleged Iranian drone intercepted by Israeli missiles. Additional injuries were…

Summary

Airstrike (Drone Strike)

Civilians reported injured

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

Iranian Military, Israeli Military

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Incident Code

Location

الطليعي, Al-Tali’i, Tartous, Syria

On Sunday morning, 15 June 2025, at least one civilian, a woman, was killed, and other women and children were reportedly injured in the house of the civilian Issa Tamer in the village of al-Tali’i, in the Safita countryside, Tartous Governorate, Syria, by falling remnants from an alleged Iranian Shahed-136 drone that had been shot…

Summary

Airstrike (Drone Strike)

Civilians reported killed

Civilians reported injured

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

Israeli Military, Iranian Military

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Incident Code

Location

الرفيد, Al-Rafid, Quneitra District, Syria

On Friday, 13 June 2025, a child in the village of al-Rafid in the Quneitra governorate, Syria, was reportedly injured by shrapnel allegedly from an Iranian missile that was intercepted by Israeli forces. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that “a child in the village of al-Rafid in Quneitra governorate was injured as…

Summary

Airstrike and/or Artillery

Civilians reported injured

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

Iranian Military, Israeli Military

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Incident Code

Location

سرمين, Sarmin, Idlib, Syria

Six identified civilians, including two children and four women of which two were mother and daughter, were injured and several civilians were reportedly killed in an alleged artillery shelling with contested responsibility perpetrated by the Syrian regime military forces and/or Russian military and/or Iranian military in the city of Sarmin, east of Idlib, Syria, in…

Summary

Civilians reported killed

Civilians reported injured

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

Russian Military, Iranian Military

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