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Incident Date
7 October 2014
Incident Code
CS010
Location
حمام, Hamam, Raqqa, Syria
A number of sources named Khalil Ibrahim Al Sheikho.as a victim of a coalition strike on a village near Raqqah. Some of the sources mention another male [listed by Airwars as CS011] but it's not clear if the incidents are linked. One of the sources claimed that both males were in fact ISIS members -…
Summary
Published
7 October 2014
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
7 October 2014
Incident Code
CS011
Location
سلوك, Suluk, Raqqa, Syria
A number of sources reported that a named civilian male as being killed in a coalition strike on Slouk near Ar Raqqah. The sources mention another male [CS010] but it's not clear if the incidents are linked. One of the sources claims both males were ISIL members but the rest of the sources say they…
Summary
Published
7 October 2014
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
5 October 2014
Incident Code
CI007
Location
يت, Hit, Al Anbar, Iraq
It was reported by several sources in Hit that Coalition or Iraqi jets struck a number of civilian houses, killing up to 22 persons. Eight children and 3 women were reportedly among the dead. One of those quoted on the event was Nabil Souri, an Iraqi citizen working at Hit hospital, who learned that many…
Summary
Published
5 October 2014
Civilians reported killed
18–24
Civilians reported injured
43
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
28 September 2014
Incident Code
CS005
Location
الجسر العتيق, Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria
An alleged early morning coalition airstrike hit a small plastics factory on the Old Bridge Road in Ar Raqqah, the headquarters town of Islamic State in Syria. The strike reportedly killed the factory site’s young night watchman (or alternatively the owner). In what may be a separate incident in the city, the Syrian Martyrs website…
Summary
Published
28 September 2014
Civilians reported killed
1–2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
28 September 2014
Incident Code
CS007
Location
منبج, Manbij, Aleppo, Syria
The US (possibly with Jordan and/or the UAE) bombed grain silos near Manjib. While CENTCOM insisted that the grain facilities were occupied by Islamic State forces, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that only civilians – workers at the silos – had been killed, although militants were also wounded. According to the Syrian…
Summary
Published
28 September 2014
Civilians reported killed
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
28 September 2014
Incident Code
CS008
Location
جرابلس, Road between Manbij and Jarabulus (Road 216), Aleppo, Syria
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a coalition airstrike “on Islamic State buildings” killed “several” civilians who were being held captive, as well as five Islamic State militants. The full translated quote from SOHR reads as follows: "Also at least five members of the Islamic State were killed and others wounded following a…
Summary
Published
28 September 2014
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
2
Civilians reported injured
2
Military actors reported killed
5
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
27 September 2014
Incident Code
CS004
Location
الفدغمي, Fadghami, Al Hassakah, Syria
Six male civilians, all cousins were killed in the village of Al Fadghami, Al Hassakah “as a result of Coalition strikes” it was reported. Local activist Siraj al Hasskawi published details of the event on the day: “At 10:30 on Friday morning the Western/Arab alliance jets committed a massacre against six unarmed civilians and wounded…
Summary
Published
27 September 2014
Civilians reported killed
6
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
26 September 2014
Incident Code
CS003
Location
الحسكة, Al-Hasakah, Al Hassakah, Syria
The Syrian Martyrs website claimed that three named men were killed in a Coalition airstrike. On its summary page Syrian Martyrs listed the trio as civilians. However, their individual pages describe them as fighters. According to a video tribute, Akta’a was an opponent of the Assad regime who had also fought the Kurds in Syria’s…
Summary
Published
26 September 2014
Civilians reported killed
2–4
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
26 September 2014
Incident Code
CI006
Location
الموصل, Mosul, Tahrir, Nineveh, Iraq
“Seven civilians including two children” were reported by two local news agencies as being killed in a coalition airstrike in the eastern part of Mosul, in al-Tahrir Street. Alternatively, the Baghdad Centre for Human Rights claimed that two separate coalition strikes – in the Fadhiliyah and Ba’shika neighbourhoods of Mosul – killed four civilians each.…
Summary
Published
26 September 2014
Civilians reported killed
7–8
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
25 September 2014
Incident Code
CS002
Location
الحسكة, Al-Hasakah, Al Hassakah, Syria
The Syrian Martyrs website claimed that six unnamed civilian males were killed in a Coalition airstrike on Al Hassakah. It said it had obtained the news via the Syrian Network for Human Rights, though that original report cannot presently be traced. In July 2017 the Coalition classed the event as Non-Credible, saying there was too…
Summary
Published
25 September 2014
Civilians reported killed
6
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
24–29 September, 2014
Incident Code
CS009
Location
الرقة, Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria
A number of sources including the Syrian Martyrs website reported that a woman was killed in a Coalition airstrike on Ar Raqqah. She was reported as being a resident of the city. The3 Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies also reported her death fropm Coalition actions - though said this occured on September 24th: " Fawzia…
Summary
Published
29 September 2014
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
23 September 2014
Incident Code
CS001
Location
كفردريان, Kafr Daryan, Idlib, Syria
On the first night of US airstrikes in Syria, the United States carried out a sequence of attacks on the Al Qaeda-affiliated Khorasan Group (part of the al-Nusra Front.) For the only recorded occasion during the allied air war, the US deployed Tomahawk cruise missiles to strike targets in the vicinity of Aleppo. Locals also…
Summary
Published
23 September 2014
Civilians reported killed
13–18
Civilians reported injured
15
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
14 September 2014
Incident Code
CI005
Location
سنجار, Sinjar, Nineveh, Iraq
An internal CENTCOM review identified potential civilian casualties from a Coalition airstrike in “northern Iraq.” The only location for this date which matches is Sinjar. The incident was not previously tracked by Airwars. According to a declassified CENTCOM document, “A review of FMV from a RECOIL feed revealed unknown individuals moving into a target area…
Summary
Published
14 September 2014
Civilians reported killed
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
5 September 2014
Incident Code
CI004
Location
الموصل, Mosul, Houses neighboring the Turkish Consulate, Nineveh, Iraq
Sources in the city claimed that an airstrike carried out at approximately 10pm in the vicinity of the Turkish consulate in Mosul had killed Ridwan Akram, his wife and their child. According to a commemorative Facebook page, the family had only recently returned after three months in Turkey when they died. While a number of…
Summary
Published
5 September 2014
Civilians reported killed
3
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
3 September 2014
Incident Code
CI003
Location
الوحدة, Mosul, Al Wahda, Nineveh, Iraq
A reported aerial bombardment (at 2200hrs local time) near an ISIL HQ east of Mosul, allegedly left up to seven members of the same family dead and injured in the al-Wadha Street area. At least three women were reported killed and a man and child injured. While Baghdad TV attributed the strike to US aircraft,…
Summary
Published
3 September 2014
Civilians reported killed
3–7
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
24 August 2014
Incident Code
CI002
Location
القيارة, Qayyarah, Al Shuhadaa, Nineveh, Iraq
Local news service Al Sumaria claimed that “11 civilians from one family” died after coalition airstrikes hit the village of al Qayyarah south of Mosul on the morning of August 24th. Other sources, placing the death count slightly lower at 8-9 killed, reported that the attack had been carried out by a helicopter, possibly a…
Summary
Published
24 August 2014
Civilians reported killed
8–11
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
16 August 2014
Incident Code
CI001
Location
سنجار, Sinjar, Nineveh, Iraq
According to the German news agency DPA, the first known civilian victims of US bombing in the campaign occurred on August 16th, eight days into the air war. According to DPA, witnesses informed the agency’s reporter that “11 civilian were killed by a US airstrike when they chased [ISIL] fighters in Sinjar but its rockets…
Summary
Published
16 August 2014
Civilians reported killed
11
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
15 September 2011
Incident Code
Lib2011-162
Location
الحي رقم 2, Neighbourhood No 2, Surt, Libya
Between 30 and 64 civilians were allegedly killed in a NATO airstrike on neighbourhood No 2 in Sirte. Mustafa Al Fitouri wrote in his book, naming 46 civilians: "The seventh air strike took place in Sirte on 15th September at 7pm where the warplanes targeted a gathering of civilian vehicles inside and near it a…
Summary
Published
15 September 2011
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
30–64
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
NATO forces
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Incident Date
30 July 2011
Incident Code
Lib2011-131
Location
طرابلس, Tripoli, Tarabulus, Libya
Three journalists were reportedly killed in a NATO airstrike on Tripoli. SBS News tweeted: "Three journalists have reportedly been killed in a NATO air strike while on state television in Libya." Uruknet wrote: "Libya says three journalists have been killed in a NATO air strike on state television, and that the murder of the rebels'…
Summary
Published
30 July 2011
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
3
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
NATO forces
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Incident Date
13 May 2011
Incident Code
Lib2011-092
Location
مرسى البريقة, Brega, Al Wahat, Libya
Between 11 and 16 civilians were reported killed in a NATO airstrike on Brega. Both the BBC and the Washington Post said that eleven clerics were killed in the attack, while Reuters noted that "Nine imams were among 11 people killed in a strike on a guest house in the eastern city of Brega on Friday,…
Summary
Published
13 May 2011
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
11–16
Civilians reported injured
50
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
NATO forces
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Incident Date
30 April 2011
Incident Code
Lib2011-081
Location
الساحة الخضراء, Green Square, Tarabulus, Libya
Several members of the Gaddafi family were reported to have been killed by a NATO airstrike on Tripoli. While Saif al-Arab Gaddafi, son of Muammar Gaddafi, was reportedly a member of the military, his children clearly had non-combatant status due to their young age. CNN reported: "The Libyan government said Sunday that Gadhafi's son, Saif…
Summary
Published
30 April 2011
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
3
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
NATO forces
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Incident Date
22 April 2011
Incident Code
Lib2011-073
Location
باب العزيزية, Bab Al Azizia, Tarabulus, Libya
Three civilians were reported killed in a NATO airstrike near Tripoli. Breaking News posted on Twitter: "Libya update: 3 die when NATO airstrike hits parking lot at Gadhafi compound in Tripoli - Govt. spokesman via Reuters." Other sources published similar news, referring back to the government spokesperson. The Huffington post reported that the area was…
Summary
Published
22 April 2011
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
3
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
NATO forces
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