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November 6, 2014
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موقة, Muqah, Idlib, SyriaThe Syrian Martyrs website claimed that up to four unnamed children under the age of 10 died in a coalition airstrike on Mouka – described as one girl and two or three boys. In contrast, the VDC lists three unidentified bodies (two adult males and one female child) noting that they were “Martyred due to
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November 6, 2014
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حارم, Harim, Idlib, SyriaSix months after US air raids had targeted the Khorasan Group (part of the al-Nusra Front) and the militant group Ahrar al-Sham, the Coalition conceded that two children had “likely” died in the attack – the first public concession of any civilian deaths after 4,000 airstrikes against ISIS over nine months. The November 5th US-only
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November 5, 2014
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القائم, Al Qa'im, Al Anbar, IraqWitnesses from Al-Qaim alleged that coalition airstrikes targeted a civilian house at midnight, killing a father and his three children and leaving the wife with severe injuries. The man’s name was given as Mohammed Hammad Alhialy. This may or may not be related to an incident cited by the United Nations in its quarterly report
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October 16, 2014
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كبيبة, Kabiba, Al Hassakah, SyriaIn a major night time coalition air raid targeting oil facilities used by Islamic State, five civilians including a 7- or 10-year old boy were reported killed. The dead were later named by various sources. In a detailed report on the event, SN4HR later noted: “Those civilians are from Kabiba town and they work on
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October 5, 2014
LOCATION
يت, Hit, Al Anbar, IraqIt 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
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September 26, 2014
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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.
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September 23, 2014
LOCATION
كفردريان, Kafr Daryan, Idlib, SyriaOn 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
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Incident date
September 5, 2014
LOCATION
الموصل, Mosul, Houses neighboring the Turkish Consulate, Nineveh, IraqSources 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
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August 6, 2014
LOCATION
قنفودة, Ganfouda, Benghazi, LibyaAccording to many local sources, one child was reported killed in an alleged LNA airstrike on the Ganfouda neighbourhood of Benghazi. Alwasat wrote: The house of the brother of MP Amal Muhammad Baiou was shelled in the Ganfouda area, killing Hassan Salah Mohammed Baiou and the house completely collapsed. His family announced that the funeral
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June 1, 2014
LOCATION
Farigow, 3 km west of Jilib, Middle Juba, SomaliaBetween one and five civilians, including women and children, were killed as the Farigow leper colony near Jilib, Middle Jubba was struck by unknown warplanes, international media reported. A woman living near the settlement told the Kenyan group Journalists for Justice that the colony was struck by jets by “mid 2014”, killing one person and
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January 26, 2014
LOCATION
Haway, Lower Shabelle, SomaliaTwo civilian children were reported killed and their father severely injured when a US military drone strike attack seemingly directed at nine al Shabaab members struck Hawai, Lower Shabelle, international and local media reported. The strike was said to have targeted and failed to kill Ahmed Abdi Godane. While there initially were no reports of
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November 1, 2013
LOCATION
جيليب, Jilib, Middle Juba, SomaliaFive children from a single family were killed in the town of Jilib, in Somalia’s Middle Juba region, when their house was razed by aerial bombardment from an unknown belligerent (possibly Kenya), according to residents interviewed by the group Journalists for Justice. According to the report, “A third set of strikes took place a few
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June 1, 2013
LOCATION
جيليب, Jilib, Middle Juba, SomaliaDrones and helicopters reportedly attacked outside the town of Jilib, in Somalia’s Middle Juba region, killing three people and seriously wounding seven, according to locals interviewed by the Kenyan group Journalists for Justice. Of the three people killed, two were women and one an elderly man, and of those wounded, three were reportedly children. As
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March 1, 2013
LOCATION
Kol, near Bula Xawa, Gedo, SomaliaTwo airstrikes by an unknown belligerent hit the nomadic settlement of Kol, near the city of Bulla-Xama, in southwestern Somalia’s Gedo region, killing a mother and her two children and injuring five others, a young man who fled the settlement following the strike told the Kenyan group Journalists for Justice. According to a report, Black
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January 12, 2013
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Bulo Marer, SomaliaFrench commandos failed to a rescue a French spy held hostage by al Shabaab since 2009. Paris claimed the militants executed the captured secret service agent, known by his alias Denis Allex, during an assault by 50 Special Forces troops. However al Shabaab’s media wing said the hostage survived. Seventeen alleged militants were reportedly killed
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December 28, 2012
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شحير, Near the hospital in Shoheer, Hadramaut, YemenOn the evening of December 28, 2012, an alleged US drone strike fired missiles at a moving motorcycle killed between two to four alleged AQAP militants near the town of Shaher, near the site of a strike four days earlier. An investigation by an NGO revealed that a 10 year old child was also wounded.
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November 7, 2012
LOCATION
السرين, Sirin, Sana'a, YemenAn alleged US drone strike killed two to four people, including one civilian (child) and two to three Al Qaeda militants from the AQAP (Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula) branch, and injured one to three other militants in Beit Al Ahmar in the town of Sanhan in the Sana’a Governorate on the November 7th, 2012
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Incident date
October 28, 2012
LOCATION
وادي آل أبو جبارة, Wadi Al Abu Jabarah, Sa'dah, YemenOn the 28th October 2012 at 10am in the Wadi al Abu Jabara area in Saada Governorate, northern Yemen, a suspected US drone conducted three airstrikes against two houses in the area, injuring two civilians, a woman and her son, and killing between three and four alleged Al Qaeda militants and injuring one, according to
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September 7, 2012
LOCATION
عزان, Azzan, Shabwa, YemenOn September 7th 2012, a child was injured following the explosion of a live projectile from a previous airstrike allegedly by US forces in the city of Azzan, Shabwa governorate. Eyewitnesses told Al-Masdar Online that “a shell exploded while a child was passing by one of the buildings that was bombed by drones to target
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September 2, 2012
LOCATION
صرار قيفة, Sarar Qifah, Al Bayda, YemenConfirmed US drones or jets killed between 11 and 14 civilians, including up to three women (one pregnant woman) and three children, in a botched attack on an alleged senior militant in the village of Al Saboul in Bayda province at 4pm on September 2, 2012. Up to 11 other civilians were wounded. Al Masdar
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June 15, 2012
LOCATION
شقرة, Shaqra, Abyan, YemenOn June 15th 2012, up to seven civilians, including a woman and up to six children, were killed by an alleged US military, CIA drone, or Yemen Air Force strike in the village of Shaqra, Ayban province. Four civilians were injured and no militants were killed according to witnesses. The village of Shaqra, near Jaar,
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May 14, 2012
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جعار, Ja'ar, Abyan, YemenIn a third incident occurring on the 14th of May 2012, two children were wounded by alleged Yemeni warplane strike in Ja’ar in Abyan Province. A military official told AP that a warplane missed its target and accidentally struck civilians, leaving two children wounded. AP was the only source to report on this incident, and
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March 30, 2012
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عزان, Azzan, Shabwa, YemenInitial reports suggested that one civilian was killed and six to eight civilians, including three to six children, were injured in an alleged US drone strike targeting a vehicle allegedly carrying AQAP members, in the city of Azzan in Shabwa Province at 4pm on the 30th of March 2012. A later report by Akkarama on
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March 9, 2012
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المخنق, Al Makhnaq, Al Zahir district, Al Bayda, YemenTen to 43 suspected militants were reported killed in a drone strike at 9:15pm on al Bayda, Yemen, March 9th, 2012. Yet in interviews, human rights activists and victims’ relatives said “many” of the dead were civilians, not fighters, with at least two named civilian victims and a report of a child killed. As many
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November 1, 2011
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مزرعة الأبحاث, Research Farm, Surt, LibyaOne child was allegedly killed and his uncle injured by a NATO airstrike on a research farm near Sirte. Nour Al Din Nasser Al Zanki said: “Abd al-Hadi Hamad Abd al-Rahman Qazwari, the son of an 8-year-old, was struck by a warplane on the research farm and his uncle lost his legs.” NATO did not
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March 18, 2011
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منطقة العمارات, Al Amarat, Surt, LibyaOne child was allegedly killed and its mother injured by a NATO airstrike on Sirte. Nour Al Din Al Zaki said: “Siham Mohammed al-Qantari, 24 years. She was hit by shrapnel in the back which caused paralysis and is now under treatment and her child die who was in her lap next to her house
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October 19, 2011
LOCATION
سرت, Sirte, Surt, LibyaSix civilians, including one child, were allegedly killed by a NATO airstrike on Sirte. Libya Now said: “Yesterday, Saturday, the revolutionaries found in the city of Sirte a cemetery containing the remains of 6 people from one family, including a child, who were killed by the bombing of the second area at dawn last Wednesday.”
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October 14, 2011
LOCATION
حريب, Harib district, Ma'rib, YemenSaleh Qaid Toayman and his 14-year-old son Jalal were reportedly killed in an alleged overnight US airstrike in Azzan on October 14, 2011, according to local reports. Saleh and Jalal were grazing camels “in an area known to be controlled by Al Qaeda,’” and had then slept by a mosque, according to Toayman’s 15-year-old son Azzedine,
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Incident date
October 14, 2011
LOCATION
عزان, Azzan, Shabwa, YemenA series of up to six confirmed US drone and/or airstrikes across Azzan killed up to 24 people, including two children, on October 14, 2011. The others killed were reportedly Al Qaeda militants. In the first of several attacks on this day, a drone attack struck a house in the Azan district of Shabwa, targeting
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Incident date
October 6, 2011
LOCATION
الدولار, Dollar , Surt, LibyaThree civilians were allegedly killed and a mother injured by a NATO airstrike on the Al Wafa neighbourhood of Sirte, which is alternatively referred to as Al Dollar neighbourhood.. ANVWL said on one of the victim’s circumstances of death on October 6th: “The child was killed in Al-Wafa neighbourhood, Al-Dollar neighbourhood, as a result of