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Incident Date
3 September 2015
Incident Code
CI100
Location
الموصل, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq
A single source, NINA, alleged that the Coalition had killed 13 civilians during airstrikes on ISIS targets in the south of Mosul city. According to the National Iraqi News Agency, "33 civilians were martyred and wounded, including women and children, following aerial bombardment by the international Coalition which targeted residential areas in the south of Mosul,…
Summary
Published
3 September 2015
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
13
Civilians reported injured
20
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
29 August 2015
Incident Code
CS119
Location
الباب, Al-Bab, Aleppo, Syria
A six-months pregnant woman named as Ghafran Al Jabli was reported killed in an event at Al Bab along with her 10-year old nephew, Mohammad Al Waki. Syrian Martyrs reported that the deaths were caused by a Coalition strike on the outskirts of the city. However VDC described the cause of death as shooting, while…
Summary
Published
29 August 2015
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
2
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
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Small arms and light weapons
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
Incident Code
CI097
Location
الموصل, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq
A single source, the local news agency NINA, reported that 12 civilians were killed in a Coalition raid on the Rifai and Al-Najjar areas west of Mosul, including a child and four women. Four other people were said to have been critically injured. In its July 2017 casualty report, the Coalition classed the even as…
Summary
Published
27 August 2015
Civilians reported killed
12
Civilians reported injured
4
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
24 August 2015
Incident Code
CI095
Location
الموصل, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq
A young man named as Muhannad Tariq was reported killed in a Coalition strike near the al Jandool restaurant in Mohandeseen neighbourhood. The Coalition later reported that one civilian was killed and three others were wounded in this incident. According to a comment posted on a tribute page, Muhannad died from shrapnel wounds to his…
Summary
Published
24 August 2015
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
10
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
21 August 2015
Incident Code
CI094
Location
الموصل, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq
A single source, NINA, reported that a Coalition strike on a house at Hamam al-Alil, near Mosul “led to the martyrdom of all the family that inhabited consisted of nine members, including three children and a woman.“ As NINA noted: "Local residents told the National Iraqi News Agency that the international coalition aircraft bombed a…
Summary
Published
21 August 2015
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
9
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
19 August 2015
Incident Code
CS116
Location
الرقة, Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria
Reports claimed that three civilians (a woman and one or two children) and 8 Daesh fighters were killed following two raids by the Coalition in an area surrounding a sugar factory or grain mill near the city. Local activist Abu Ibrahim Al Raqawi said of the attack on the mill: “Although it is not a…
Summary
Published
19 August 2015
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
3
Military actors reported killed
8
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
11 August 2015
Incident Code
CS111
Location
اطمه, Atimah, Idlib, Syria
A US airstrike on a Jaish al-Sunna ammunition depot in the night also killed at least eight non-combatants in the village of Atmeh, it was widely reported. According to accounts, a number of civilian homes were damaged or destroyed in secondary explosions. Graphic images showed significant damage at the scene. Five young girls were among…
Summary
Published
11 August 2015
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
9
Civilians reported injured
4–12
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
8 August 2015
Incident Code
CI091
Location
الرطبة, Ar Rutbah, Al Anbar, Iraq
Coalition aircraft were alleged to have struck civilians some 15 km from Ar Rutbah, at the Haj Saleh Mraid Kubaisi glassworks factory. According to a number of sources, some families had fled the town for fear of airstrikes, only for members to be killed in an alleged Coalition attack on a civilian vehicle. It was…
Summary
Published
8 August 2015
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
6–7
Civilians reported injured
10
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
6 August 2015
Incident Code
CI090
Location
الرطبة, Ar Rutbah, Al Anbar, Iraq
There were claims that a Coalition strike at ar Rutbah destroyed a family home in the Askari neighbourhood owned by Yaseen Al-Hiti and Jamal Raheem Uda Al-Kubeisi – who were both reported killed along with Mr al-Hiti’s wife Zia and one or two of their children – one a daughter also named Zia. A further…
Summary
Published
6 August 2015
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
4–5
Civilians reported injured
8–10
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
1 August 2015
Incident Code
TI002
Location
زرجيلي, Zergele, Sulaymaniyah, Iraq
Multiple Turkish airstrikes reportedly killed eight or more residents and injured at least eight others – including a child - in an attack on the village of Zergele in the Kandil Mountains. Alusmaria reported: "Turkish planes today bombed the village of Zergele north of the border, killing eight civilians, wounding ten others and destroying seven…
Summary
Published
1 August 2015
Civilians reported killed
8–10
Civilians reported injured
8–11
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Turkish Military
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Incident Date
31 July 2015
Incident Code
CI089
Location
الرطبة, Ar Rutbah, Al Anbar, Iraq
In a major incident, up to 46 civilians died in an alleged Coalition airstrike (according to the Iraqi Revolution site) on the town of Ar Rutbah. The UN Mission to Iraq expressed “serious concern” about the event. The attack, which occurred shortly after dawn, reportedly killed a significant number of children, with graphic photographs widely…
Summary
Published
31 July 2015
Civilians reported killed
27–46
Civilians reported injured
70
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
30 July 2015
Incident Code
CS108
Location
البوكمال, Abu Kamal, Deir Ezzor, Syria
Five members of one family including three children were killed in a reported 1.30am Coalition strike on the Syria-Iraq border, according to two sources. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights noted the following: “Suspected US-led coalition warplanes carried out several raids after midnight on places around Aysha hospital and other places around the city of…
Summary
Published
30 July 2015
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
5
Civilians reported injured
17
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
11 July 2015
Incident Code
CS098
Location
الرقة, Warakat Samra near Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria
In the second of three Raqaa incidents for July 11th in which Coalition aircraft allegedly caused non-combatant deaths, a woman and two or three of her children died in an airstrike at the village of Warakat Samra according to reports. Her husband was severely injured in the attack, losing his leg. Local activist Abu Ibrahim…
Summary
Published
11 July 2015
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
3–4
Civilians reported injured
1
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
11 July 2015
Incident Code
CI083
Location
الموصل, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq
There were fresh claims of Coalition-inflicted civilian casualties at Mosul, with 37 non-combatants alleged killed and injured in airstrikes reportedly aimed at disrupting power supplies to the city. According to NINA, the dawn raid “caused a complete interruption of electricity – and some water pumps stopped in the city.” Some hospitals reportedly lost access to…
Summary
Published
11 July 2015
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
20
Civilians reported injured
17
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
4 July 2015
Incident Code
CS087
Location
الرقة, Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria
The day of July 4th saw multiple allegations of civilian casualties reported in Raqqa. In one of them, an internally displaced family of seven living under a bridge was said to have been crushed to death following a Coalition airstrike. Buzzfeed cited a surviving close relative in Turkey, who declined to be named publicly but…
Summary
Published
4 July 2015
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
7
Civilians reported injured
24
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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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
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
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
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
19 June 2015
Incident Code
CS082
Location
عربيد, Arbeed, Raqqa, Syria
A reported 1am airstrike on the ISIL-occupied village of Arbeed was said to have killed two women at the home of Adel al Kharfan. Mr al Kharfan’s wife (a mother of six children) died along with her relative, the wife of Ismael al Kharfan and a mother of four. Mr al-Kharfan’s son later told SN4HR:…
Summary
Published
19 June 2015
Civilians reported killed
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
18 June 2015
Incident Code
CS080
Location
تل أبيض, Tall Abyad, Raqqa, Syria
Two women were reported by a single source, the Syrian Observatory, as having been killed in a “Coalition airstrike” in the countryside around Tal Abiyad. In July 2017 the Coalition classed the event as non credible on grounds of available evidence of civilian harm: “Jun. 18, 2015, near Tal Abyad, Syria, via Airwars report: After…
Summary
Published
18 June 2015
Civilians reported killed
2
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
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
10 June 2015
Incident Code
CS075
Location
عربيد, A'rbeed, Raqqa, Syria
A reported Coalition strike near the ISIL-occupied village of A'rbeed was said by the Syrian Network for Human Rights to have killed three civilians in a farmhouse – a 43 year old man and his two wives. Two other sites described Coalition strikes in the vicinity, though did not refer to civilian deaths. In February…
Summary
Published
10 June 2015
Civilians reported killed
3
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
5 June 2015
Incident Code
CI071
Location
عنه, Anah al Jadidah, Al Anbar, Iraq
A young man, Mustafa Tarif Habib al-Ani (pictured below) was reportedly killed along with three or four of his relatives in an alleged coalition airstrike. According to the Iraqi Spring site, the family home was struck “near Rabe’e Sooq in the Rasil Gharbi area of Anah district, in western Anbar.”
Summary
Published
5 June 2015
Civilians reported killed
4–5
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
CS071
Location
الرقة, Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria
During a series of Coalition airstrikes against Islamic State in the vicinity of Ar Raqqah, a checkpoint was bombed at around 2pm. According to reports, a minibus carrying female agricultural workers was caught in the blast, killing between 6 and 10 women and reportedly injuring at least four. All of the female victims were reported…
Summary
Published
26 May 2015
Civilians reported killed
6–12
Civilians reported injured
4–10
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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