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Incident Date

2 January 2016

Incident Code

RS0339

Location

معارة الارتيق, Maarat al Arteek, Aleppo, Syria
Two civilians including one unnamed woman and a member of the White Helmets were killed – and 10 others injured – in alleged Russian airstrikes on Maarat al Arteek, according to multiple sources. The Shaam News Network reported that a woman died when Russian warplanes targeted the town in several spatial missile strikes. They said…

Summary

Published
2 January 2016
Civilians reported killed
2
Civilians reported injured
10
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

1 January 2016

Incident Code

CI172

Location

الرمادي, Hit and Thaiyala, Al Anbar, Iraq
Local sources said that airstrikes – possibly by the Coalition – had struck civilians in Hit and Thaiyala in Anbar province, resulting in deaths and injuries of multiple civilians including women and children. Face Iraq reported that 12 bodies of civilians were later evacuated from Thaiyala, “killed in bombings which had resulted in the deaths…

Summary

Published
1 January 2016
Civilians reported killed
12
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

31 December 2015

Incident Code

RS0336

Location

أعزاز‎, A`zaz, Aleppo, Syria
Three civilians including a woman and child were reported killed at a camp for displaced people in A'zaz. Radio Al Kul reported that “Three civilians were killed and tens injured, among them many children in critical condition, by Russian airstrikes on A'zaz and a refugee camp on the outskirts of the town.” The three victims were…

Summary

Published
31 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
3
Civilians reported injured
6–12
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

30 December 2015

Incident Code

RS0330

Location

البوليل, Al Buliyal, Deir Ezzor, Syria
Three to six civilians including two women and three to four children were killed in an alleged Russian airstrike on Al Buliyal, according to the Violations Documentation Center and the Syrian Network for Human Rights. The Syrian Network for Human Rights reported that three non-combatants – including two women and a child – died when Russian warplanes…

Summary

Published
30 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
3–6
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

28 December 2015

Incident Code

RS0327

Location

تل رفعت, Tall Rif`at, Aleppo, Syria
Up to 20 civilians, including two women and six children, were killed in alleged Russian airstrikes on the neighbourhoods of Tel Rifa’at in the northern countryside of Aleppo, according to multiple sources. The Shaam News Network initially reported that three non-combatants were killed and other injured but later put the death toll at more than…

Summary

Published
28 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
20
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

27 December 2015

Incident Code

CI168

Location

حي المثنى, Mosul, al-Muthanna, al-Masaref, al-Tahrir, and al-Qadisiyah, Nineveh, Iraq
According to single source the National Iraqi News Agency, 12 civilians died and 11 were “severely wounded” in Coalition airstrikes on the neighbourhoods of al-Muthanna, al-Masaref, al-Tahrir, and al-Qadisiyah, north of Mosul. MNN cited Kurdish official Ghyath Surja as saying the Coalition had carried out a targeted strike on a vehicle at al-Muthanna, though did…

Summary

Published
27 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
12
Civilians reported injured
11
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

27 December 2015

Incident Code

RS0324

Location

كحيل, Kaheel, Daraa, Syria
Four or five civilians were reported killed including a woman and dozens wounded, in alleged Russian airstrikes on Kaheel according to multiple sources. The Shaam News Network reported that four non-combatants died when Russian warplanes struck the town. The seriously wounded were taken to field hospitals. Five victims were listed by the Violations Documentation Center…

Summary

Published
27 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
4–5
Civilians reported injured
24
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

26 December 2015

Incident Code

RS0318

Location

الحيدرية, Haidariya, Aleppo, Syria
Two civilians, a woman and child, were reported killed in an alleged Russian airstrike on the northern roundabout area in Al Haidariya . The Syrian Observatory reported a number of unspecified casualties, while Halab News named the same woman and child killed as VDC, attributing their deaths to “a Russian Air Force bombing attack on…

Summary

Published
26 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
2
Civilians reported injured
1
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

26 December 2015

Incident Codes

CS159 RS0320

Location

الرقة‎, Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria
The IS-linked agency Al A’maq posted a video showing destruction in the city following reported airstrikes Local monitoring group Raqaa is Being Slaughtered suggested the attack may have been the work of the US-led Coalition: “Warplanes targeted with seven missiles on Friday night the area of February 23rd Street in Raqqa city center. This resulted in…

Summary

Published
26 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
2
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
Russian Military, U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

25 December 2015

Incident Code

CI167

Location

الفلوجة‎, Fallujah, General hospital, Al Anbar, Iraq
Fallujah’s General Hospital was cited as reporting that seven people were killed – including five children and one woman – following an alleged Coalition airstrike. Three women and a child were also said to have been injured. However, the Iraqi Spring Media Center did not attribute the incident to any party. And artillery sheling of…

Summary

Published
25 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
7
Civilians reported injured
4
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

23 December 2015

Incident Code

RS0305

Location

حيان, Hayyan, Aleppo, Syria
Two civilians – one woman and one female child – were killed in an alleged Russian airstrike on Hayyan, according to multiple sources. The Syrian Network for Human Rights reported that two victims – a female child and a woman – died when Russian warplanes allegedly fired missiles on Hayyan, while the Syrian Observatory for Human…

Summary

Published
23 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
2
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

22 December 2015

Incident Code

RS0302

Location

الحميدية, Hamidiya (Deir ez-Zor), Deir Ezzor, Syria
17 civilians including seven women and three children were killed in alleged Russian airstrikes on the Hamidiya neighbourhood, according to multiple sources. The Shaam News Network, the Syrian Network for Human Rights and Deir Ezzor is Being Slaughtered Silently all named child victims (also named in the VDC list below). Violations Documentation Center named 15…

Summary

Published
22 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
17
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

22 December 2015

Incident Code

RS0300

Location

جسر الشغور, Jisr al Shughour, Idlib, Syria
Between five and eight civilians including one to five women and four children were killed – and several other injured – in an alleged Russian airstrike on Bdama, Jisr al Shughour, according to multiple sources. Reports by the Shaam News Network said that Russian warplanes targeted the town with two vacuum missiles, leading to the…

Summary

Published
22 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
5–8
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

21 December 2015

Incident Code

CI163

Location

Keseir, Iraq
Six civilians were reportedly killed and three injured – all children and women – after Coalition jets allegedly bombed their house in Keseir village east of Mosul.

Summary

Published
21 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
6
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

21 December 2015

Incident Code

CI162

Location

حي الوحدة, Mosul, Wahida, Nineveh, Iraq
In the second of three claimed incidents in Mosul on this date, it was reported that 17 civilians – including four women and five children – were killed in an alleged Coalition strike in the Wehda and Methak neighbourhoods east of Mosul. However, there was some doubt regarding the incident, with NRN News reportedly denying…

Summary

Published
21 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
17
Civilians reported injured
9
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

21 December 2015

Incident Code

CI161

Location

17 تموز, Mosul, Talmuz / July 17th (Medical centre), Nineveh, Iraq
Reuters reported that “About 20 people, including at least 12 civilians, were killed on Monday in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, in two air strikes that destroyed houses believed to be used by Islamic State militants, six eyewitnesses and a medical source said.” According to the international news agency, “The two strikes happened within…

Summary

Published
21 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
12–20
Civilians reported injured
17–50
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

21 December 2015

Incident Code

RS0295

Location

رامي, Al Rami, Idlib, Syria
Four or more civilians were reported killed and more than 10 injured in Russian airstrikes on the villages of Al Zawiya mountain. Footage appears to show a Su 24 in apparent Russian Air Force colours dropping two bombs in the vicinity of the town. According to the Shaam News Network five or more Russian airstrikes with rockets…

Summary

Published
21 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
4–6
Civilians reported injured
8–10
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

21 December 2015

Incident Code

RS0296

Location

الشيخ مقصود, Sheikh Maqsod (Aleppo), Aleppo, Syria
Two or three civilians were reported killed and nine injured in alleged Russian airstrikes on Sheikh Maqsod, according to the Shaam News Network. SNN reported that Russian warplanes launched several raids which came after the signing of a ceasefire between  rebels and the Kurdish People’s Protection Units. However all other sources blamed the Assad regime.…

Summary

Published
21 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
2
Civilians reported injured
9–10
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

20 December 2015

Incident Code

RS0292

Location

دوما, Douma, Damascus, Syria
At least six civilians including one woman and two children from the same family were killed in an alleged Russian airstrike on the food stores of A’dala, a relief organisation in Al Ghouta, according to reports. Significant food stores were targeted and destroyed and around 70 sheep slain.    

Summary

Published
20 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
6–7
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

20 December 2015

Incident Code

RS0291

Location

إدلب, Idlib, Idlib, Syria
Between 43 and 73 civilians were reported killed and 70-170 injured in alleged Russian airstrikes on Idlib, according to multiple sources. Al Jazeera posted a video from the main market on Al Jala’a street in which the reporter said 47 non-combatants were killed and 70 injured, in strikes by Russian warplanes. The correspondent said the street contained two schools,…

Summary

Published
20 December 2015
Infrastructure
Education
Civilians reported killed
43–73
Civilians reported injured
70–170
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

19 December 2015

Incident Code

RS0290

Location

العثمانية, Al Othmaniya, Aleppo, Syria
A 50-year old woman named as Mrs. Salwa Al Shahadi, was killed in an alleged Russian airstrike on Al Othmaniya. The VDC reported that Mrs al Shadadi originally came from Zimar village, and died “due to Russian air forces shelling on Othmaniye town.“ The local Jisr TV station blamed her death and several injuries on “airstrikes…

Summary

Published
19 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

18 December 2015

Incident Code

RS0289

Location

الناجية, Najieh, Idlib, Syria
Seventeen non-combatants including eight women and nine children were killed in airstrikes on Najieh near Jisr al Shughour according to multiple sources – though reports were conflicted as to whether the attack was the work of Russia or the Assad regime. Thirteen of those killed as well as an unborn child came from one family, the…

Summary

Published
18 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
17
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

17 December 2015

Incident Code

CI160

Location

الفلوجة‎, Fallujah, Al Anbar, Iraq
Amid heavy airstrikes on the city of Fallujah, at least four children were among up to eight people reported killed when a home was struck in an alleged Coalition attack. According to Al Fallujah News, those killed were a father, mother and their six children. News Fallujah Now, citing “medical sources at Fallujah General Hospital”…

Summary

Published
17 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
6–8
Civilians reported injured
9
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

17 December 2015

Incident Code

RS0285

Location

أعزاز‎, A`zaz, Aleppo, Syria
Eight to nine civilians including two children and five women were killed in an alleged Russian airstrike on Azaz, according to multiple sources. The White Helmets, Al Jazeera, the Shaam News Network and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that Russia carried out the raid, which killed nine non-combatants. SOHR said this included a child, a girl…

Summary

Published
17 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
8–9
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

17 December 2015

Incident Code

RS0284

Location

الرقة‎, Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria
21 civilians were killed including two women and four children and 11 wounded in airstrikes on residential neighbourhoods in the centre and north and south of the city of Raqqa, according to multiple sources –  though it is unclear whether regime or Russian warplanes or shelling by the Assad regime were responsible for the casualties. According to…

Summary

Published
17 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
21
Civilians reported injured
11
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

16 December 2015

Incident Code

RS0282

Location

الباب, Al-Bab, Aleppo, Syria
Eight people were reported killed and 40 wounded in three alleged Russian night time airstrikes on Al Bab according to multiple sources. Though the ISIL-lnked news agency Al A’maq claimed the deaths were “as a result of the Russian strikes” VDC blamed the fatalities on “the regime air forces’ shelling with explosive barrels on a…

Summary

Published
16 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
8
Civilians reported injured
40
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

15 December 2015

Incident Code

RS0279

Location

مسكنة, Maskanah, Aleppo, Syria
26 to 30 civilians including five women were killed and dozens injured in airstrikes on Maskaneh, according to multiple sources – though reports were conflicted as to whether the attack was the work of Russia or the Assad regime. The Shaam News Network reported that Russian aircraft committed an “appalling massacre” when warplanes targeted Maskaneh’s popular market…

Summary

Published
15 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
26–30
Civilians reported injured
24
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

14 December 2015

Incident Code

RS0275

Location

حي المرجة, Al Murja, Aleppo, Syria
Between five and seven civilians including one woman and one child were killed – and many injured – in airstrikes on the Al Murja neighbourhood in Aleppo – though reports were conflicted as to whether the attack was the work of Russia or the Assad regime. The Shaam News Network reported that Russian warplanes using cluster…

Summary

Published
14 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
5–7
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

13 December 2015

Incident Code

CI158

Location

الموصل‎, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq
There were single-source claims that 19 civilians died in a Coalition airstrike on Mosul. Citing local residents, the National Iraqi News Agency claimed that “international coalition aircraft bombed residential compounds in the Hadbah area east of Mosul, killing 19 civilians including six women and four children, and wounding six others.” However Airwars’ own sources in…

Summary

Published
13 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
19
Civilians reported injured
6
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

13 December 2015

Incident Code

RS0273

Location

الصاخور, Al Sakhour (Aleppo), Aleppo, Syria
Two adult male civilians were reported killed in an alleged Russian airstrike on Sakhour, according to the Violations Documentation Centre. Five additional victims may also have died, including a woman and girl. Halab TV also reported at least one death from an air raid, though did not identify a perpetrator: “Warplanes launched two air strikes…

Summary

Published
13 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
2–7
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
Russian Military
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