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Incident Date

6 November 2016

Incident Code

RS1541

Location

Binnish, Idlib, Syria
Between one and two children died and up to 14 more civilians were wounded in airstrikes launched against Binnish town in Idlib, according to multiple sources on the ground. However, one source, Step News, reported that there were no civilian casualties in this incident. The airstrikes reportedly struck a neighborhood of civilian homes. Both cluster…

Summary

Published
6 November 2016
Civilians reported killed
0–2
Civilians reported injured
10–14
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

6 November 2016

Incident Code

RS1540

Location

Al Dana, Idlib, Syria
Between five and forty civilians, including at least one woman, one child and one adult male, were killed and up to forty were wounded in airstrikes launched against Al Dana town in Idlib. Most sources only reported preliminary counts of casualties and many expected that the number was higher due to many civilians still stuck…

Summary

Published
6 November 2016
Infrastructure
Education
Civilians reported killed
5–40
Civilians reported injured
24–40
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

6 November 2016

Incident Code

RS1539

Location

Hamouriya , Damascus, Syria
Between six and nine civilians, including up to four women and up to five children, were killed in alleged Russian and Syrian regime airstrikes in Houmouriya town, Damascus, according to sources on the ground. The numbers of civilians reported wounded varied from 18 to 24. LCCSY reported that "dozens of civilians were injured as the…

Summary

Published
6 November 2016
Civilians reported killed
6–9
Civilians reported injured
18–24
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

6 November 2016

Incident Code

RS1544

Location

أورم الكبرى, Urma al Kubra, Aleppo, Syria
Three civilians were killed, including one woman and two children, and others were injured in airstrikes which struck Urma al Kubra town in Aleppo, according to sources on the ground. Both children were found buried in rubble by the Civil Defence team following the raids. Local sources, including Halab News and Assakina News, identified Russian…

Summary

Published
6 November 2016
Civilians reported killed
3
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

6 November 2016

Incident Code

RS1543

Location

البلليرمون, Al Baleirmoon, Aleppo, Syria
Between one and three civilian were killed and others were wounded in cluster bomb attacks against Al Leirmoun town in northern Aleppo. Thiqa News pointed out that this incident was part of a fierce Russian campaign which struck parts of Aleppo with no regard for the civilians in this vicinity.  Local sources, including Baladi News…

Summary

Published
6 November 2016
Civilians reported killed
1–3
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

5 November 2016

Incident Code

CI323

Location

حمام العليل, Mosul, Hamam al Alil subdistrict, Nineveh, Iraq
The UN report on the protection of civilians in the context of Nineveh operations and the retaking of Mosul stated: On 5 November, airstrikes hit two houses in Hamam al-Alil City resulting in the houses collapsing. Twenty-three civilians, including children, were reportedly trapped inside. In the evening of the same day, two children, one seriously…

Summary

Published
5 November 2016
Civilians reported killed
23
Civilians reported injured
10
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

5 November 2016

Incident Code

RS1537

Location

أبين سمعان, Abeen Sama'an, Aleppo, Syria
Five civilians, including two children, were killed and others injured in airstrikes which struck "eastern school of Ibin" in the town of Abin Sama’an in the western Aleppo. Almost all sources attributed blame to Russian aircraft. Syrian Press Center also noted that this strike was part of a concerted campaign by the Russians to strike…

Summary

Published
5 November 2016
Infrastructure
Education
Civilians reported killed
5
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

5 November 2016

Incident Code

RS1535

Location

الأتارب, Al Atarib, Aleppo, Syria
One or two civilians were killed, including a female child, and more than 15 civilians were injured, from airstrike shelling on Al Atarib city. Local media reported that cluster bombs struck a popular local market, which resulted in many civilians being trapped under the rubble. The airstrikes came during a unilateral truce declared by Russia…

Summary

Published
5 November 2016
Civilians reported killed
1–2
Civilians reported injured
2–15
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

4 November 2016

Incident Code

CI319

Location

الكندي, Mosul, Kindi, Nineveh, Iraq
According to a single local report, a father and his daughter were killed in alleged Coalition airstrikes. Mosul Eye reported that 2 civilians (father and his daughter) have been killed in US-led coalition airstrikes in Al-Kindy neighbourhood, on the eastern bank of Mosul.  

Summary

Published
4 November 2016
Civilians reported killed
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

4 November 2016

Incident Code

RS1532

Location

كفر ناها, Kafr Naha, Aleppo, Syria
Between eight and 15 civilians, including women and children, were killed and between 20 and 25 civilians were wounded in airstrikes launched against the town of Kafr Naha in western Aleppo. Local sources were conflicted as to who was responsible for the airstrikes. According to Mohammed Haj Hussein, a local media and civil defence correspondent, airstrikes…

Summary

Published
4 November 2016
Civilians reported killed
8–15
Civilians reported injured
20–25
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

4 November 2016

Incident Code

RS1531

Location

الأتارب, Al Atarib, Aleppo, Syria
Between two and five civilians were killed, including two to three children, and others were wounded, including one child, from airstrikes against the city of Al Atarib. Included in the wounded was a child that had to have their leg amputated from the explosion. Once source reported that as many as five children were killed…

Summary

Published
4 November 2016
Civilians reported killed
2–5
Civilians reported injured
1–24
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

4 December 2016

Incident Code

RS1736

Location

حي الشعاكفرنبل, Kafir Nabil, Idlib, Syria
Up to 26 civilians - 23 of whom were named - died and dozens more were wounded in an alleged Russian or Assad regime airstrikes on a popular market in Kafir Nabil, according to sources on the ground. Reports were conflicted as to whether this was the work of Russia or the regime. Aljazeera pointed…

Summary

Published
4 November 2016
Civilians reported killed
23–26
Civilians reported injured
12–36
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

3 November 2016

Incident Code

CI318

Location

الموصل‎, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq
Nine civilians were killed and over 115 claimed wounded, according to ISIL-linked sources. ISIL-controlled al A’amaq reported that more than 9 civilians died, including four children and a woman, and “about 115 wounded as a result of US airstrikes” in Mosul. A distressing video posted by the ISIL-controlled outlet initially shows several destroyed buildings in…

Summary

Published
3 November 2016
Civilians reported killed
9
Civilians reported injured
115
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

3 November 2016

Incident Code

RS1528

Location

ميزناز, Miznaz, Aleppo, Syria
Between eight and 10 civilians, including seven children and one woman, were killed and at least 12 were wounded from thermobaric missile airstrikes targeting the village of Minaz. However, local sources were conflicted as to who was responsible for the airstrikes. Syrian Network for Human Rights attributed Syrian regime planes to blame, while most other…

Summary

Published
3 November 2016
Civilians reported killed
8–10
Civilians reported injured
2–24
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

3 November 2016

Incident Code

RS1530

Location

الرستن, Ar-Rastan, Homs, Syria
Between seven and eight civilians, including as many as six children, were killed and more than 10 others were wounded in an alleged Russian or Syrian regime airstrike on Al Rastan, according to local media. Local sources were conflicted in who was to blame for the airstrikes, with the majority of sources - including Eldorar,…

Summary

Published
3 November 2016
Civilians reported killed
6–8
Civilians reported injured
5–24
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

2 November 2016

Incident Code

RS1527

Location

أورم الكبرى, Urma al Kubra, Aleppo, Syria
Between two and three civilians, including one woman and one child, were killed and up to six others were wounded by airstrikes fired on Urma Al Kubra town. Russian warplanes were identified as responsible for the airstrikes by most local media sources, including Local Coordination Committees, @ShahbaPress and Syrian Network for Human Rights. However, Muslm…

Summary

Published
2 November 2016
Civilians reported killed
2–3
Civilians reported injured
2–6
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

2 November 2016

Incident Code

RS1526

Location

الأتارب, Al Atarib, Aleppo, Syria
Between one and four civilians, including a child, were killed and up to nine more were injured from two aerial bombings of the city of Al Atarib. The strikes reportedly struck a bakery, a hospital, and several civilian houses, causing damage extensive enough to shut the hospital down. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human…

Summary

Published
2 November 2016
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Healthcare
Civilians reported killed
1–4
Civilians reported injured
3–9
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

2 November 2016

Incident Code

RS1523

Location

سراقب, Saraqib, Idlib, Syria
Between two and 18 civilians including one child and up to four women died and as many as 50 others were wounded in airstrikes on Saraqib, according to sources on the ground - though it was unclear from reports whether Russia or the Syrian regime were to blame for the event. The lowest estimate of…

Summary

Published
2 November 2016
Infrastructure
Education
Civilians reported killed
2–18
Civilians reported injured
10–50
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

30 October 2016

Incident Code

CS354

Location

الرقة‎, Mashlab, Raqqa, Syria
Multiple sources, including Halab Today TV and Al Amawi News, reported the death of a child and the injuring of this father in a coalition raid on the al Mashlab neighborhood east of Raqqa. Smart News reported strikes in Raqqa targeting ISIL, which it said killed four militants. It said the death of the child…

Summary

Published
30 October 2016
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

30 October 2016

Incident Code

CI313

Location

تل كيف‎, Tel Kepe (Tel Kayf), Nineveh, Iraq
A local outlet reported that numerous civilians have fallen victim to daily bombardments neighbourhoods in Telkaif north of Mosul. Mosul Youth and Girls, State and Flag reported that 15 people died, including children and six women. It attributed the violence to daily bombardment carried out by the besieging forces. Given reported British actions in the area…

Summary

Published
30 October 2016
Civilians reported killed
15
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

28 October 2016

Incident Code

RS1515

Location

سرمين, Sarmin, Idlib, Syria
A single source, Halab News, reported the deaths of “Abdallah al Hasan al Khalaf and his two children, following the explosion of a cluster bomb left by Russia planes following a bombing of Sarmin in Idlib”. The source added that the victims were from the town of al Eiss. No further details are currently available.

Summary

Published
28 October 2016
Civilians reported killed
3
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

28 October 2016

Incident Code

RS1517

Location

Abeen Sama'an, Aleppo, Syria
One child died and several other civilians were wounded in an alleged Russia or Syrian  regime strike on Abeen Sama’an, according to sources on the ground. According to the Shaam News Network,”in the evening [of Oct 28th] Russian and Assad enemy planes launched air strikes targeting Aleppo neighborhoods, cities and towns in the western and…

Summary

Published
28 October 2016
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

28 October 2016

Incident Code

RS1516

Location

دوما, Douma, Damascus, Syria
A woman and her unborn child died in an alleged Russian or Syrian regime air or artillery strike on Douma, according to sources on the ground.  According to the Step News Agency, “a woman and her foetus were killed and a number of more people wounded when Russian planes targeted residential areas in Douma Eastern…

Summary

Published
28 October 2016
Civilians reported killed
2–4
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

27 October 2016

Incident Code

CS351

Location

بريهة, Bariha, Deir Ezzor, Syria
At least 10 civilians were killed and more than a dozen wounded from airstrikes, according to local reports. Shaam News Network cited activists who reported warplanes “thought to belong to the international coalition” launched airstrikes on a house, resulting in “martyrs and wounded among civilians, most of them children.” At the time, it reported five…

Summary

Published
27 October 2016
Civilians reported killed
10–11
Civilians reported injured
13–15
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

27 October 2016

Incident Code

RS1514

Location

دوما, Douma, Damascus, Syria
Eight named civilians died and up to 30 more were injured in air and artillery strikes on Douma, according to sources on the ground. Reports blamed both Russian airstrikes and artillery/ mortar shelling by Syrian regime forces. Some reports also pointed to regime warplanes. Among targets hit was a primary school, prompting the Directorate of…

Summary

Published
27 October 2016
Infrastructure
Education
Civilians reported killed
8–10
Civilians reported injured
12–30
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

26 October 2016

Incident Code

RS1512

Location

حاس, Haas, Idlib, Syria
In a major casualty incident, which UNICEF called “tragic, shocking, outrageous and a war crime”, 38 named civilians including 18 children and up to six women died in multiple airstrikes on the Martyr Kamal Qal’aji school complex in the village of Haas, which was under the joint control of Armed opposition factions and the Fateh…

Summary

Published
26 October 2016
Infrastructure
Education
Civilians reported killed
38
Civilians reported injured
12–50
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

24 October 2016

Incident Code

CI307

Location

أبو جربوعة, Abu Jarbua, Nineveh, Iraq
A local source told Airwars’ Iraq-based field researcher that three families have died in the village of Abu Jarbuha, followed Coalition airstrikes allegedly destroyed their homes. With British airstrikes confirmed in the area that day, Airwars reached out to the MoD, with information which included geolocates within 1km of the likely vicinity of the event…

Summary

Published
24 October 2016
Civilians reported killed
6–9
Civilians reported injured
4
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

24 October 2016

Incident Code

CS348

Location

تل أسود, Tall Aswad, Aleppo, Syria
Manbij Mother of All the World initially reported what it said were Coalition strikes on Tal Aswad, targeting a reservoir. In a subsequent report, it said a “massacre” had been committed “against two familes as a result of wrong information from the Kurdish units in the village.” It named four victims. A report by the…

Summary

Published
24 October 2016
Civilians reported killed
7–9
Civilians reported injured
4
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

24 October 2016

Incident Code

CI306

Location

تل كيف‎, Tel Kepe (Tel Kayf), Nineveh, Iraq
Eight members of the same family were killed followed an alleged Coalition strikes, according to local sources. Multiple local outlets reported that 8 civilians – all members of the same family – were killed on October 24th in Tel Kepe, a town less than 15km north of Mosul. Yagen identified the father of the family…

Summary

Published
24 October 2016
Civilians reported killed
8–9
Civilians reported injured
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

24 October 2016

Incident Code

RS1510

Location

أورم الكبرى, Urma al Kubra, Aleppo, Syria
Three or four civilians including two girls and one woman died and as many as dozens more were injured in an alleged Russian or Syrian regime airstrike on Urma al Kubra, according to local media. The White Helmets gave the lowest death count of four civilians. But all other sources put the number at four,…

Summary

Published
24 October 2016
Civilians reported killed
3–4
Civilians reported injured
8–24
Military Actor
Russian Military
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