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Incident Date
13 August 2016
Incident Code
RS1149
Location
قبطان الجبل, Qibtan al Ghabal, Aleppo, Syria
Five named civilians died and up to dozens more were wounded in an airstrike on Qebtan al-Jabal, according to local media – though sources were conflicted as to whether this was the work of Russia or the Assad regime. The Syrian Network for Human Rights put the death toll at three, including one girl, and…
Summary
Published
13 August 2016
Civilians reported killed
5
Civilians reported injured
2–24
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
13 August 2016
Incident Code
RS1140
Location
حي بستان القصر, Bustan al Qasr (Aleppo), Aleppo, Syria
One female civilian died in an air or artillery strike on Bustan al-Qaser, according to local media – though sources didn’t apportion blame for the attack. According to @HalabTodayTV, there were both “air and artillery strikes” on the area. @ShahbaPress reported that a girl was killed and “several” other civilians wounded.
Summary
Published
13 August 2016
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
13 August 2016
Incident Code
RS1141
Location
حربنوش, Harbanush, Idlib, Syria
Between nine and 12 civilians including up to nine children died in an airstrike on Harbanush, according to local media – though it was unclear whether Russia or the Assad regime were responsible. According to Orient News, 11 civilians including seven children died in a Russian strike. Sky and Ahmed Shlar also pointed towards Moscow.…
Summary
Published
13 August 2016
Civilians reported killed
9–12
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
13 August 2016
Incident Code
RS1150
Location
تفتناز, Taftanaz, Idlib, Syria
Up to seven civilians including women and a child died and as many as 12 more were wounded in an airstrike on Taftanaz, according to local media – though reports were conflicted as to whether this was the work of Russia or the regime. RFS Media Office reported: “Russian aviation has committed a second massacre…
Summary
Published
13 August 2016
Civilians reported killed
2–7
Civilians reported injured
10–12
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
13 August 2016
Incident Code
RS1151
Location
معراته, Maratah, Idlib, Syria
A child and a woman were reportedly killed and up to 10 more civilians injured in an alleged Russian airstrike on Maratah, local media said. According to LCCSY, “Russian warplanes raided the El Shaheed Farooq school for basic education in the town of Maratah in the south-west countryside of Gabal al-Zawiah. Idlib. The raid led…
Summary
Published
13 August 2016
Infrastructure
Education
Civilians reported killed
1–2
Civilians reported injured
3–10
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
13 August 2016
Incident Code
RS1144
Location
الفردوس, Al Fardous (Aleppo), Aleppo, Syria
Up to 20 civilians died and dozens more were wounded in air and artillery strikes on the Fardous neighbourhood of Aleppo, local sources reported. Sources were conflicted as to whether Russia or the Assad regime were responsible – though several blamed both parties. According to Sky News and the Step News Agency, the raids took…
Summary
Published
13 August 2016
Civilians reported killed
3–20
Civilians reported injured
15–24
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
12 August 2016
Incident Code
CI275
Location
القيارة, Qayyarah, Nineveh, Iraq
A number of sources reported that six non-combatants including two children died, in an alleged Coalition airstrike on a vehicle-borne IED factory in Qayyarah. The Coalition conceded the event two years later. According to Qayyarah News at the time, the airstrike destroyed an ISIS facility which contained two vehicles already packed with explosives. The resulting…
Summary
Published
12 August 2016
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
6
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
12 August 2016
Incident Code
RS1138
Location
حيان, Hayyan, Aleppo, Syria
Another hospital was reportedly struck on 12th August 2016. At least 12 civilians including four women and between eight and ten children died, and up to 15 more were injured, in five air raids launched against the town of Hayyan, according to sources on the ground. The children’s hospital was reportedly destroyed by the airstrikes,…
Summary
Published
12 August 2016
Infrastructure
Healthcare
Civilians reported killed
12–14
Civilians reported injured
7–15
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
12 August 2016
Incident Code
RS1132
Location
الرقة, Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria
Seven named civilians died and up to 50 more were wounded in multiple alleged Russian airstrikes on Raqqa, according to local media. According to @lebanon4_com, 30 civilians died in the Russian strikes, though the Violations Documentation Center put the number at seven. @DoumaRevolution added that 50 more civilians were wounded in 12 raids.
Summary
Published
12 August 2016
Civilians reported killed
7–30
Civilians reported injured
50
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
12 August 2016
Incident Code
LC039
Location
قنفودة, Ganfouda, Benghazi, Libya
Various sources reported that between 20 and 31 civilians were killed and around 30 more injured as a result of airstrikes in Ganfouda. Two targets appear to have been struck – a residential home and a prison. While some sources claimed the attack was conducted by an unknown foreign drone, others blame the LNA or…
Summary
Published
12 August 2016
Civilians reported killed
20–31
Civilians reported injured
30
Military Actor
Libyan National Army
,
French Military
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Incident Date
11 August 2016
Incident Code
RS1126
Location
الدانا, Al Dana, Idlib, Syria
Seven civilians were killed and as many as dozens more were wounded in an airstrike on Al Dana, local media reported. Sources were conflicted as to whether this was the work of Russia or the Assad regime. LCCSY put the death toll at 11. Many sources attributed the airstrikes to regime planes, including Baladi, the…
Summary
Published
11 August 2016
Civilians reported killed
7–12
Civilians reported injured
2–24
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
11 August 2016
Incident Codes
CS292 RS1127
Location
الرقة, Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria
In a major civilian casualty event, between 13 and 30 civilians were killed and up to 70 more injured from airstrikes from either a Russian or a Coalition strike on al Idkhar neighbourhood in Raqqa City. Both belligerents report bombing in the area. Raqaa is Being Slaughtered initially reported on the morning of August 11th:…
Summary
Published
11 August 2016
Civilians reported killed
13–30
Civilians reported injured
13–70
Military Actor
Russian Military
,
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
10 August 2016
Incident Code
RS1120
Location
حطلة, Hatla, Deir Ezzor, Syria
Up to ten civilians were killed, including "a woman and her four daughters", and 20 more injured in airstrikes on the town of Halta, according to sources on the ground – though reports were conflicted as to whether this was the work of Russia or the Assad regime. Both The Shaam News Network (SNN) and…
Summary
Published
10 August 2016
Civilians reported killed
0–10
Civilians reported injured
20
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
9 August 2016
Incident Code
RS1118
Location
Mheimidiya, Deir Ezzor, Syria
Between 15 and 30 civilians were killed, including three children and four women, and between 20 to 40 wounded – some critically – by an aerial bombardment of the town of Mahimideh, local media reported. The majority of sources attributed the event to the Assad regime. However, four airstrikes were conducted by planes that were…
Summary
Published
9 August 2016
Infrastructure
Education
Civilians reported killed
15–30
Civilians reported injured
20–40
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
8 August 2016
Incident Code
RS1115
Location
دارة عزة, Darat Izza, Aleppo, Syria
At least seven civilians including two women and two children were killed and up to 40 more wounded in alleged long-range ballistic missiles (Scud) strikes launched from battleships in the Mediterranean. But sources were conflicted as to whether this was the work of Russia or Syrian regime.The majority of sources attributed the attacks to Russian…
Summary
Published
8 August 2016
Civilians reported killed
7–8
Civilians reported injured
17–40
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
8 August 2016
Incident Code
RS1116
Location
إدلب, Idlib, Idlib, Syria
Multiple sources reported that between four and five civilians including two women died and up to 12 others were injured in four raids on Idlib City – though reports were conflicted as to whether this was the work of Russia or the Assad regime. The majority of sources attribute the raids to Russia. However, The…
Summary
Published
8 August 2016
Civilians reported killed
4–5
Civilians reported injured
10–12
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
6 August 2016
Incident Code
RS1110
Location
ملس, Malas, Idlib, Syria
Thirteen civilians, including three to five children and two women, were killed and up to 30 more were wounded is missile strikes on Malas town, according to local media – though reports were conflicted as to whether Russia or the Assad regime were to blame. Reports said that two of the four to six strikes…
Summary
Published
6 August 2016
Civilians reported killed
13
Civilians reported injured
10–30
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
5 August 2016
Incident Code
RS1105
Location
حي المرجة, Marjah (Aleppo), Aleppo, Syria
In what has been described by reporters as a “massacre”, no less than 11 civilians, including seven children and one woman, died following an aerial bombardment on the residential neighbourhood al Marja. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights however, noted that the numbers were most likely to rise due to the nature of the injures.…
Summary
Published
5 August 2016
Civilians reported killed
11
Civilians reported injured
13–24
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
5 August 2016
Incident Code
RS1103
Location
الأتارب, Al Atarib, Aleppo, Syria
Four civilians died and dozens more were wounded in an aerial bombardment of a school and neighbourhood in Al Atareb, according to sources on the ground – though it was unclear whether Russia or the Syrian regime were responsible. Sources reported that Russian warplanes and government helicopters were sighted in the vicinity – and that…
Summary
Published
5 August 2016
Infrastructure
Education
Civilians reported killed
4
Civilians reported injured
12–24
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
5 August 2016
Incident Code
RS1106
Location
حي طريق الباب, Tareeq al-Bab (Aleppo), Aleppo, Syria
Between two and seven civilians died in an alleged Russian or Syrian regime airstrike on Tareeq Al Bab, according to sources on the ground. Radio Alkul gave the lowest death count of two with three more wounded – from the same family, blaming Russia. The Syrian Network for Human Rights said that four died, including…
Summary
Published
5 August 2016
Civilians reported killed
2–7
Civilians reported injured
3–24
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
5 August 2016
Incident Code
RS1107
Location
مديرة, Madira, Damascus, Syria
An entire family was killed in an alleged "rocket attack" in the town of Madira in an aerial bombardment according to local media. Sources reported that cluster bombs and rockets were used in the airstrike. All sources reported that Russian aircraft was to blame for this incident. These included Al Jazeera, Jisrtv, Halab Today and…
Summary
Published
5 August 2016
Civilians reported killed
8–9
Civilians reported injured
36
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
4 August 2016
Incident Code
RS1101
Location
كفر ناها, Kafr Naha, Aleppo, Syria
Up to four civilians died, including a woman and two children, in an alleged Russian airstrike on Kafr Naha. According to Ara News, the warplanes launched strikes on the neighbourhood, “in an attempt to prevent the arrival of a new military Maazrat Army conquest of the region”. LCCSY reported that rockets were fired over the…
Summary
Published
4 August 2016
Civilians reported killed
4
Civilians reported injured
4–24
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
3 August 2016
Incident Code
RS1099
Location
المنصورة, Al Mansoura, Aleppo, Syria
Six named civilians died in an air or artillery strike on Al Mansoura in the western suburbs of Aleppo, local sources said. According to the Syrian Network for Human Rights, on “Wednesday evening 3 August 2016, alleged Russian warplanes carried out two airstrikes on the residential homes located in the northwestern areas of Al Mansoura…
Summary
Published
3 August 2016
Civilians reported killed
6
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
2 August 2016
Incident Code
CI272
Location
القائم, Al Qa'im, Al Anbar, Iraq
Multiple sources claimed that an alleged Coalition strike on the al Sanjak and Karabila areas of Al Qaim killed 45 children and a woman. However, no Coalition strikes were publicly reported in the vicinity. Yaqein reported that most of the civilians are still under the rubble caused by the intensity of the shelling and the…
Summary
Published
2 August 2016
Civilians reported killed
42–46
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
2 August 2016
Incident Code
USYEM269
Location
مديرية الوضيع، أبين, Al-Wadiah District, Abyan, Yemen
At least three children were killed and their parents were injured by alleged US airstrikes on a family home in the village of Al-Shemil in the district of Al-Wadiah, Yemen on August 2, 2016. Spanish news agency EFE reported that "at least three children died and their parents were wounded in an air strike on…
Summary
Published
2 August 2016
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Infrastructure
Residential
Civilians reported killed
3–5
Civilians reported injured
2
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
2 August 2016
Incident Code
RS1089
Location
الأتارب, Al Atarib, Aleppo, Syria
Between 11 and 42 civilians died and dozens more were wounded in an airstrike on a popular market in Al Atarib, according to local media. Most sources blamed Russia, though there was some confusion in the reporting with the Syrian Network for Human Rights pointing to both Moscow and then the regime. Some other sources…
Summary
Published
2 August 2016
Civilians reported killed
11–42
Civilians reported injured
12–24
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
2 August 2016
Incident Code
RS1090
Location
حي السكري, Sukkari (Aleppo), Aleppo, Syria
According to sources, both Russian and Assad regime aircraft carried out missile attacks on Al Sukkari at noon on August 2nd 2016. Sources stated that not only artillery, but rocket launchers, missiles and a vacuum missile were used in the raid on the neighbourhood. Only one source reported that the aircraft was Russian. Multiple sources…
Summary
Published
2 August 2016
Civilians reported killed
1–3
Civilians reported injured
2–10
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
2 August 2016
Incident Code
RS1091
Location
كفرتخاريم, Kafr Takharim, Idlib, Syria
One woman died in an airstrike on Kafr Tkharim and the surrounding countryside on the August 2nd, according to sources on the ground. Most sources attributed the event to Russia, though one said that barrel bombs had been dropped on the area, meaning that regime involvement can’t be ruled out. LCCSY and Baladi Network both…
Summary
Published
2 August 2016
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
2 August 2016
Incident Code
RS1092
Location
سراقب, Saraqib, Idlib, Syria
Russian and Assad regime helicopters allegedly dropped what were reportedly exploding chloride barrels on a residential neighbourhood in Saraqeb in Idlib at 23.20 on Tuesday August 2nd. The Shaam News Network reported that this attack was a “revenge for the killing of a number of Russian officers after their helicopter crashed in the vicinity of…
Summary
Published
2 August 2016
Civilians reported killed
3
Civilians reported injured
10–33
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
1 August 2016
Incident Code
CI271
Location
القائم, Al Qa'im, Al Anbar, Iraq
Local sources claimed that Coalition airstrikes had struck neighbourhoods in Qa’im City resulting in 9 civilian deaths – 5 children and 4 women- and 10 injuries. According to Iraq Spring, five homes were hit. ISIL’s media arm later issued a graphic video showing significant destruction at the scene and the bodies of four young children.…
Summary
Published
1 August 2016
Civilians reported killed
9
Civilians reported injured
10
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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