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Incident Date

2 July 2015

Incident Code

LC018c

Location

النوفلية, Nofaliya, Surt, Libya
Three civilians from one family were reported killed in Nofaliya, Sirte in an LNA or NATO nation airstrike. Jalferjani posted on Twitter that "The Al Diab family house was shelled by a NATO aircraft and two children and their parent were killed in the city of Sirte." Presslibya said that the LNA had bombed in…

Summary

Published
2 July 2015
Civilians reported killed
3
Military Actor
Libyan National Army, Unknown
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Incident Date

1 July 2015

Incident Code

CI080

Location

تل الرمان, Mosul, Tel Ruman, Nineveh, Iraq
There were claims that up to 22 civilians were killed and 16 injured in Coalition airstrikes to the west of Mosul. Women and children were reported to be among the casualties. In a January 2016 report, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq noted: “According to a source, on 1 July, 17 civilians, including four…

Summary

Published
1 July 2015
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
17–22
Civilians reported injured
11–16
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

30 June 2015

Incident Code

CS086

Location

سلوك, 20 km from Suluk, Raqqa, Syria
A civilian car was reported hit in a coalition airstrike 20km to the south of Suluk, killing those inside. The attack was described as occurring near Umm al Brameel, to the south east of Tal Abyad. Among the dead was a child named as Mohmmad Ali Ahmad Al Assaf.  

Summary

Published
30 June 2015
Civilians reported killed
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

25 June 2015

Incident Code

CI076

Location

Mahmoudiya, Kirkuk, Iraq
Although reporting was confused, there were claims of a fresh coalition airstrike in the vicinity of Hawija which killed a number of civilians. A Facebook page calling itself Hawija Now said that five women and 2 children died in the nearby village of Mahmoudiya. One extremely graphic image appears to show a woman survivor of…

Summary

Published
25 June 2015
Civilians reported killed
5–7
Civilians reported injured
6–13
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

25 June 2015

Incident Code

CI077

Location

‎القيارة, Qayyarah, Nineveh, Iraq
Up to 17 civilians were allegedly killed during a coalition air raid at Qayyarah near Mosul, two sources claimed. NINA reported that six women and four children were among the dead. And German news agency DPA gave identical casualty figures, citing a source as saying that “the bodies of the civilians have now reached the…

Summary

Published
25 June 2015
Civilians reported killed
17
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

24 June 2015

Incident Code

CI075

Location

الموصل‎, Mosul, Rifai and Hermat, Nineveh, Iraq
Iraqi news agency NINA claimed that multiple Coalition airstrikes on the city of Mosul killed 23 people and injured a further 21. Citing an ‘anonymous security source’ the news agency reported that “Around 23 civilians were killed, including ten women and eight children, and 21 injured in the coalition bombing” which included the neighbourhoods of…

Summary

Published
24 June 2015
Civilians reported killed
23
Civilians reported injured
21
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

23 June 2015

Incident Code

CI074

Location

المسحك, Mishak, Salah Al Din, Iraq
In a report published in January 2016, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq cited an incident in Bayji which an alleged airstrike killed six civilians including four children. The Coalition has confirmed carrying out an airstrike in the vicinity. According to UNAMI, “On 23 June, a house was allegedly targeted by an airstrike in…

Summary

Published
23 June 2015
Civilians reported killed
6–8
Civilians reported injured
8–27
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

13 June 2015

Incident Code

CS079

Location

خشام, Khusham, Deir Ezzor, Syria
Three children were reported by a single source as having been killed during an overnight coalition airstrike on a Daesh checkpoint at the town of Kheshan. However local sources said the attack was the work of the Syrian regime. A man named as Abu Mohammed, said to be one of the relatives of the dead,…

Summary

Published
13 June 2015
Civilians reported killed
3
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

11 June 2015

Incident Code

CS076

Location

سلوك, Suluk, Raqqa, Syria
Up to nine civilians were killed by US aircraft at Slouk in Raqaa’s suburbs. Al Hal quoted Abu Ibrahim Al Raquaou of the group Raqaa is Being Slaughtered Silently as saying that as part of an operation to clear Slouk of Daesh militants, Coalition planes had “targeted IS machinery near the Slouk Front and its…

Summary

Published
11 June 2015
Civilians reported killed
5–9
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

11 June 2015

Incident Code

CS078

Location

سلوك, Slouk, Raqqa, Syria
Two or three alleged Coalition incidents were clustered together in most news reports: the killing of a family of five at Slouk; the death of a child near Ma’adan; and up to 15 further civilian deaths in other airstrikes in the vicinity. According to SOHR, “international coalition aircraft last night carried out several strikes in…

Summary

Published
11 June 2015
Civilians reported killed
6–20
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

8 June 2015

Incident Code

CI072

Location

الموصل‎, Mosul, Zuhour and other neighbourhoods, Nineveh, Iraq
In January 2016, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq reported that it had learned of a major civilian casualty incident in Mosul on June 8th 2015, though had been unable either to verify the claim or attribute responsibility to any party: “On 8 June, local sources reported that an airstrike in Mosul, Ninewa, caused…

Summary

Published
8 June 2015
Civilians reported killed
20–23
Civilians reported injured
13–21
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

7 June 2015

Incident Code

CS074

Location

دالي حسن, Dali Hasan, Aleppo, Syria
The Syrian Network for Human Rights posted a video which it said showed “the destruction caused by an international Coalition air strike on a house in Dali Hasan killing seven civilians from one family, including 5 children and a woman.” In February 2019, the Coalition accepted responsibility for the event, noting: "Coalition aircraft engaged ISIS fighters…

Summary

Published
7 June 2015
Civilians reported killed
8
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

3 June 2015

Incident Code

CI070

Location

الحويجة, Hawijah, industrial district, Kirkuk, Iraq
A Coalition airstrike on an Islamic State depot levelled a significant number of buildings, killing an estimated 85 civilians and a large number of militants. A large supply of TNT explosive detonated after the IED-making facility was struck. Bas News described the attack as one of the worst mass casualty incidents in Iraq since the…

Summary

Published
3 June 2015
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
70–85
Civilians reported injured
80–100
Military actors reported killed
80–100
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

26 May 2015

Incident Code

CS072

Location

رأس العين, Road between Al I'dwania and Raja’an, Al Hassakah, Syria
A number of sources reported that a “civilian car” was struck “on the road between Al I'dwania and Raja’an,” near Al Hassakah, killing a family of four. Those killed were described as a man, his wife, mother and daughter – all from the village of Raja A’an in Ras al-Ain.  

Summary

Published
26 May 2015
Civilians reported killed
4
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

24 May 2015

Incident Code

CS070

Location

أبو شاخات, Abu Sheikhat, Al Hassakah, Syria
A Kurdish ground offensive backed by Coalition strikes reportedly killed six civilians in Abu Sheikhat and Tal Nass villages, to the west of Ras al-Ain. Among those reported killed at Abu Sheikhat were a young female child and three non combatant men. At nearby Tal Nass village, Adalah also alleged that two children were killed…

Summary

Published
24 May 2015
Civilians reported killed
6
Civilians reported injured
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

23 May 2015

Incident Code

LC017b

Location

زعفران, Zaafran, Surt, Libya
A father and one or two of his daughters were reported killed as a result of an alleged GNC/Libya Dawn airstrike on Sirte. Most sources claim that a father with his two daughters were killed in an airstrike on their family home. However, some sources reported that only one of his daughters died and they were in…

Summary

Published
23 May 2015
Civilians reported killed
2–3
Civilians reported injured
0–1
Military Actor
General National Congress (GNC)
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Incident Date

21 May 2015

Incident Code

CI068

Location

الموصل‎, Mosul, near Bahauddin mosque, Nineveh, Iraq
Summary: A devastating airstrike on the Mosul neighbourhood of Rifai reportedly killed numerous non-combatants and injured up to 150 people. Among those killed in the event was Ayman al Hayali (who ran a clothing shop) and his family, including his wife and young son. Other sources claimed that 5 women and at least 3 children…

Summary

Published
21 May 2015
Civilians reported killed
12–50
Civilians reported injured
30–150
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

20 May 2015

Incident Code

CS069

Location

التوامة, Tawama, Aleppo, Syria
According to Al Jazeera and others, a Coalition strike on the al Nusra Front at al Tawama destroyed a number of civilian buildings, killing as many as seven inhabitants. Fifteen alleged militants – most described as ‘Turks’ – also died in the attack which reportedly struck two separate locations in the village. According to Sana…

Summary

Published
20 May 2015
Civilians reported killed
1–11
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

14 May 2015

Incident Code

LC017a

Location

السلام, Al Salam, Benghazi, Libya
Between seven and eight people, most of them children were reported killed in an LNA airstrike on the Al Salam neighbourhood of Benghazi. Alwasat News wrote: "Eight people were killed, including seven children, when a rocket hit a residential area in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Thursday (May 14, 2015), a Reuters reporter…

Summary

Published
14 May 2015
Civilians reported killed
7–8
Military Actor
Libyan National Army
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Incident Date

8 May 2015

Incident Code

CS067

Location

تل مجدل, Tal Majdal, Al Hassakah, Syria
A 10 year old boy from the village of Tal Majdal, was reported killed at around noon in a Coalition airstrike according to a number of sources, after being hit by shrapnel. In February 2019, the Coalition assessed this event as non-credible. Their report noted: "After review of all available strike records it was determined…

Summary

Published
8 May 2015
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

30 April 2015

Incident Code

CS065

Location

بئر محلي, Jubb Mahli (Ber Mahli), Aleppo, Syria
In one of the worst reported incidents in nine months of bombings by the US-led Coalition, 64 civilians were said to have died in an attack on the village of Ber Mahli near Sareen – the majority of them women (19) and children (32). It remains disputed as to whether the village was partly or…

Summary

Published
30 April 2015
Civilians reported killed
64
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

29 April 2015

Incident Code

CI065

Location

حي الجغيفي, Fallujah, Jughaifi, Al Anbar, Iraq
According to local reports, coalition airstrikes killed nine civilian non-combatants and injured three more in Al Sharika Street, Aljughaifi neighborhood. The dead were named by the Iraqi Revolution website as “belonging to the family of Khamis Sufook al-Jumaili, killing him and his wife and her sister, their sons and daughters, as well as his brother…

Summary

Published
29 April 2015
Civilians reported killed
9
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

26 April 2015

Incident Code

CS064

Location

متراس, Mitras, Aleppo, Syria
Reported Coalition airstrikes at 11 am on the village of Mitras killed three civilians, according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights.  These were identified as an adult male, a teenager and a child. This event bears a resemblance to an April 19th incident at the same location (CS063) in that the victims are from…

Summary

Published
26 April 2015
Civilians reported killed
3
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

22 April 2015

Incident Code

CI064

Location

الموصل‎, Mosul, Bareed, Nineveh, Iraq
At least four civilians died in a Coalition airstrike on the Bareed quarter of Mosul. A home was completely destroyed in the event, killing four members of one family. One report also named a fifth family member, a young disabled girl named Sadra (cousin to Abdullah) as being killed. However as the Fiscal Times noted,…

Summary

Published
22 April 2015
Civilians reported killed
4
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

21 April 2015

Incident Code

CI063

Location

الموصل‎, Mosul, East, Nineveh, Iraq
A claimed coalition airstrike on the centre of Mosul killed up to 23 militants and five or more non-combatants according to reports, after four homes were destroyed. NINA cited a medical source as saying that 23 civilians died when aircraft struck the Mdaana neighbourhood – though this appears to be a mis-cite of other casualties…

Summary

Published
21 April 2015
Civilians reported killed
5–9
Civilians reported injured
12
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

20 April 2015

Incident Code

CI060

Location

الموصل‎, Mosul, Aden, Nineveh, Iraq
A reported Coalition airstrike on an electricity generating facility reportedly killed up tp 35 civilians and injured 22 more when nearby apartments were caught in the blast, according to reports. The US led Coalition later conceded 18 deaths in this event. At the time of the incident, NINA cited a medical source at the hospital…

Summary

Published
20 April 2015
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
18–35
Civilians reported injured
22–50
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

4 April 2015

Incident Code

CI056

Location

فايده, Fadhiliya, Nineveh, Iraq
Five Kurdish non-combatants, all from the same family, died in a reported Coalition strike on the village of Fadhiliyah, near Mosul. A major field investigation by the Guardian later identified the dead. Three family members survived the attack though were injured. Rahim, an eyewitness and relative, told the Guardian: “We wrapped the dead in blankets…

Summary

Published
4 April 2015
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
5
Civilians reported injured
3
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

13 March 2015

Incident Code

CI051

Location

الحضر, Hatra, Nineveh, Iraq
A US airstrike ‘likely’ killed four civilians when a pair of vehicles was hit during an attack on a reported ISIL checkpoint, a CENTCOM investigation later concluded. After a later investigation by the Washington Post found that eleven civilians actually died – including five children, four women and two civilian drivers – the Coalition raised…

Summary

Published
13 March 2015
Civilians reported killed
11
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

6 March 2015

Incident Code

CS060

Location

مشفى عائشة الخيري, البوكمال, Abu Kamal, al Aisha Hospital, Deir Ezzor, Syria
Up to five non-combatants including a woman and two infants were reported killed in an alleged 1pm Coalition airstrike on the Aisha hospital in the town of Bukamal. The Violations Documentation Center named one woman as a victim of the strike (described as pregnant by SOHR in an email to Airwars.) Also reported slain were two…

Summary

Published
6 March 2015
Civilians reported killed
4–6
Civilians reported injured
4
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

5 March 2015

Incident Code

CI048

Location

برطلّة, Bartalah, Nineveh, Iraq
According to NINA, a source in the forensic medicine department of the local hospital reported that numerous civilians died “in bombing by the international coalition aircraft [which] targeted a stronghold of the Islamic State in Bartalah north of Mosul.” Among 16 alleged civilian victims were five children and two women, whose bodies were said to…

Summary

Published
5 March 2015
Civilians reported killed
16
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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