Incident date
March 20, 2017
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المنصورة, Al Mansoura, Al Badiya school, Raqqa, SyriaIn a major casualty incident at least 40 civilians died (and as many as 420 according to some claims) with dozens more injured in an alleged Coalition airstrike on the al Badiya school in Mansoura, which was said to have housed up to 100 displaced families. Coalition commander Lt General Townsend later denied that the
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Incident date
March 20, 2017
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كسرة شيخ (جمعة), Kasrat Sheikh (Juma'a), Raqqa, SyriaSmart News, Syria Mirror and Rasd all reported that “A man and his son who are displaced from Aleppo were killed in Kasrat Sheikh village in the countryside of Raqqa when their car was targeted yesterday.” Syrian Observatory for Human Rights blamed the Coalition for the airstrike.
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Incident date
March 20, 2017
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النبي جرجيس, Mosul, Nabi Jarjis, Nineveh, IraqA family of eleven or seventeen members was reported killed in an alleged Coalition airstrike on Nabi Jarjis neighbourhood. While most sources did not specify who carried out the raids, Yaqein news said it was the Coalition. “The US-led coalition forces on Monday bombed houses on the western side of the city of Mosul, the
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Incident date
March 20, 2017
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الثورة, Tabaqah, Al Kanissa roundabout, Raqqa, SyriaIn the first of three reported incidents at al Tabaqa on this date, eight civilians died in a fresh alleged Coalition raid on the city. ‘Dozens’ were also reported injured. According to local reports, eight members of the family of Musa al-Habib died when their house near the al Kanissa roundaout was struck in an
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Incident date
March 20, 2017
LOCATION
eastern Ghouta, Damascus, SyriaA child was among at least two civilians killed by alleged Russian or Syrian air or artillery strikes in the besieged eastern towns of eastern Ghouta, according to sources on the ground. Al Jazeera reported 15 dead. Schools in the area closed due the proximity of the strikes, according to SMART News, who blamed both Russia
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Incident date
March 20, 2017
LOCATION
دبسي الفرج دبسي أبو عاصي , Abu A’ssi village, Dibsi village and Dibsi al Faraj villages, Raqqa, SyriaA mother and her four children were among 11 civilians killed and 20 wounded in alleged Russian airstrikes on villages in northern Syria, Smart News Agency reported. A further 20 civilians were reportedly wounded. According to the Smart News Agency, “Thirty-one civilians, including children and women, were killed and wounded by air strikes by Russian
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Incident date
March 19, 2017
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حي التنك, Mosul, Tanak, Nineveh, IraqAmnesty International field researchers reported that 11 civilians died in a likely airstrike on al Tanak. The following account was published: “Amnesty International interviewed witnesses about an explosion in al-Tenak neighbourhood on 20 March which they attributed to an air strike. The explosion caused two houses to collapse just off Street 20, killing 11 civilians.
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Incident date
March 19, 2017
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الموصل الجديدة/الآبار, New Mosul/Abar, Mosul, Nineveh, IraqLocals reported the deaths of 46 civilians including 28 children and 18 men and women with 80 others injured – mostly children and women – by different kind of shelling in many neighborhoods of Old Mosul. At least 26 bodies reportedly reached the local forensic medicine hospital. Iraq News Center spoke of two dozen civilians
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Incident date
March 19, 2017
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الثورة, Tabaqah, Raqqa, SyriaBetween ten and 15 civilians died and 20 or more were injured in alleged Coalition airstrikes on multiple locations in Al Tabaqa, according to local sources. Qasioun reported: “According to A’maq [ISIL], Coalition warplanes raids in Tabaqa targeted the fire station and the bakery and killed 10 civilians and wounded 19. Coalition warplanes also targeted
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Incident date
March 19, 2017
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مزرعة الأندلس, Al Andalus Farm, Raqqa, SyriaNine civilians from one family were killed in an alleged Coalition strike at al Andalus Farms. According to Qasioun, the strike hit a residential neighbourhoods inhabited by displaced people from Maskana. Nation Defense, which also blamed the Coalition, put the death toll as high as 18. According to Shaam News “unidentified” warplanes targeted a farmhouse
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Incident date
March 19, 2017
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خان شيخون, Khan Sheikhoun, Idlib, SyriaRaids carried out by warplanes led to the deaths of four civilians including a woman and two children and wounded a further 12 people, sources said. It is unclear who was responsible for these attacks, with some reports blaming the Russians and others accusing the regime. Syrian Mirror reported: “Russian warplanes targeted the eastern neighborhood
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Incident date
March 19, 2017
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مسكنة, Maskana, Aleppo, SyriaRussian warplanes killed between four and seven civilians, including two children and two women, in an alleged attack on the Hittin compound in the the city of Maskanah, local media reported. According to the Step News Agency, “seven civilians, including two children and a woman, were killed and dozens more wounded when Russian warplanes targeted
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Incident date
March 19, 2017
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Idlib city, Idlib, SyriaBetween five and six civilians were killed and an unknown number wounded in air strikes allegedly conducted by Russian forces in the city of Idlib. Some sources claimed the Syrian regime was also involved in the attack. The victims killed in the raids were displaced from the village of Ghantu in northern Homs, “all of
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Incident date
March 18, 2017
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عكيرشي, `Ukayrishah, Raqqa, SyriaThe wife and child of an ISIL fighter reportedly died in a Coalition airstrike on al A’keirshi village. The militant – named as Abu Habibia Al-Maghribi – was either killed or injured in the attack. According to Arabs Today his wife was a member of Al-Khansa’a which is part of ISIL’s women’s police force. Their
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Incident date
March 18, 2017
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شبهر, Shabhar, Raqqa, SyriaSeven named civilians including four women and a child died in a reported Coalition strike in Raqqah governorate – though there was confusion about whether they had died at Shabhar or Al Matar. Orient News, citing Raqqa Post, said that seven civilians – five from the Matar family – died. It blamed the Coalition. Raqqa
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Incident date
March 17, 2017
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الموصل الجديدة, Mosul, Mosul al Jadida / New Mosul, Nineveh, IraqIn the highest confirmed civilian casualty event of the war against ISIL, at least 105 and as many as 141 non-combatants were later confirmed by the Coalition as having been killed in a US airstrike on a house in West Mosul’s al Jadida area. At least 137 bodies were reportedly recovered from the scene. Locals
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Incident date
March 17, 2017
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الطبقة مسكنة , the road between Maskanah and Tabaqa, Raqqa, SyriaEight civilians were killed and another 17 were injured when their bus was struck during an air raid between Maskanah and Tabaqa, according to sources on the ground. Smart News Agency reported that it is ‘likely’ the warplanes that conducted the attack were Russian. The Violations Documentation Center in Syria has named Ahmad Al-Zaher as
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Incident date
March 16, 2017
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الموصل: غرب/الجانب الأيمن, West Mosul, Mosul, Nineveh, IraqLocal sources said that at least 21 civilians were killed and 17 were injured, including women and children, because of airstrikes and artillery shelling in neighbourhoods of West Mosul. Iraq News Center placed the death toll even higher: “Many surviving civilians [and] witnesses from the right side [of Mosul] confirmed that Coalition airstrikes targeted civilian
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Incident date
March 16, 2017
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الجينة, Al Jina, Aleppo, SyriaA unilateral US drone strike on a mosque complex near al Jina town killed between 37 and 62 civilians according to multiple reports and eyewitness statements. While the US has admitted it carried out the attack, officials have claimed that al Jina’s Omar Ibn al Khattab mosque where the casualties occurred was not targeted in
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March 15, 2017
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Mosul, Hermat, IraqLocal eyewitnesses reported the deaths of 25 civilians following an air or artillery strike on the hermit area of West Mosul. An unpublished Amnesty International field investigation was shared with Airwars: ““On the street we were staying, in my uncle’s house, three houses were levelled by one attack, around 12pm on 15 March. I don’t
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March 15, 2017
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القصور, Al Qusour neighbourhood, Idlib city, Idlib, SyriaBetween eight and 39 civilians were killed, and dozens more were injured, following a raid which targeted residential housing in Al Qusour neighbourhood, Idlib city, local media reported. Sources were conflicted as to who was to blame, with some attributing blame to Russia and others to the Syrian regime. Various sources blamed both parties for
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March 14, 2017
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المحطة, Mosul, Al Mahatta, Nineveh, IraqLocal residents told journalists of the French newspaper Mediapart that 26 people were killed after an airstrike reportedly carried out by an “American-built F-16” targeted an ISIL combatant who was sitting on the roof of their house. A young girl was also severely injured. The report by Mediapart.fr [in translation] reads: “In the neighbourhood of
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Incident date
March 14, 2017
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الرسالة, Mosul, Dur al Resala, Nineveh, IraqLocal residents and press sources said that a family of seven was killed after an airstrike hit their house in Dur-al Resala neighbourhood, West Mosul. Hani Abu Obeida was named by @n_iraq67 as one of the victims. It was reported that his son Musab was the only survivor. The rest of the family reportedly died.
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Incident date
March 14, 2017
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دور موظفي السكك, Mosul, Dur al Sekak, Nineveh, IraqLocal residents and press source said that five family members were killed in an airstrike targeting their house near the railway. They used to live together in the same house in Dur Al Sekak at the right side of Mosul. It is unclear which aircraft carried out the attack. Shafaaq News reported that the bombing
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Incident date
March 14, 2017
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Various locations, Raqqa, SyriaSeven non-combatants including three children died and five others were wounded in an alleged Coalition airstrike on various locations in Raqqa governorate, according to a single source. The Smart news network reported that “seven civilians were killed including of three children, and five others were injured, including women, following raids on the town of Al
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March 13, 2017
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الموصل الجديدة, Mosul, Mosul al-Jadid / New Mosul, Nineveh, IraqRelatives, local residents and press sources said up to 29 people from two families were killed after Coalition airstrikes struck their houses in the New Mosul neighborhood of West Mosul. The Coalition later conceded causing 27 deaths in the event. According to Al Jazeera Iraq, 29 civilians, mostly children and women, were killed and many
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Incident date
March 13, 2017
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المحطة, Mosul, Al Mahatta, Nineveh, IraqLocal press sources and relatives of victims reported that 21 or more people, including an elderly woman with her two sons and a displaced family, were hit by a rocket. All victims were still under the rubble in Al-Mahatta neighborhood in West Mosul. The Coalition later accepted responsibility for 11 deaths in the attack. Mosul
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Incident date
March 13, 2017
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الهبا, Al-Hiba, Homs, SyriaA single source reported that an elderly man and his grandson were killed, and one other civilian was injured, in an alleged Russian airstrike on Al-Hiba. A local source told Smart that the village was under the control of ISIS. The child was aged six. The injured civilian only suffered from mild wounds. There are no
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Incident date
March 12, 2017
LOCATION
كسرة الفرج, Kasrat Faraj, Raqqa, SyriaAn ISIL leader and his family died in an alleged Coalition strike in Kasrat Al Faraj, according to local sources. According to the Smart news agency, “local and medical sources told Smart that an Islamic State commander and his family were killed in an aerial bombardment likely carried out by the international coalition on the
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Incident date
March 11, 2017
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مسكنة, Maskanah, Aleppo, Aleppo, SyriaBetween eight and ten civilians died and up to 16 others were wounded in an airstrike on Maskana, according to local sources – though field reports were conflicted as to whether this was the work of the Coalition, the Syrian regime or Russia. The Coalition later denied involvement. Syria News said that “According to activists,