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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

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

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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Incident Date

26 February 2015

Incident Code

CS059

Location

تل تمر, Tal Tamr, Al Hassakah, Syria
A woman from the town of al-Hussainiyah- said to be the mother of four children – was reported killed in a coalition airstrike on the nearby town of al-Tamr in al Hasakah, according to sources.  

Summary

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

24 February 2015

Incident Code

CI043

Location

الكرمة, Garma, near Fallujah, Al Anbar, Iraq
Seven civilians from one family – including young children – were killed and 8 injured when a house was allegedly struck by a coalition aircraft. However other sources attributed the attack to an artillery assault by the Iraq Army. The dead were later named by the Iraqi Spring Centre. Seven additional people were named as…

Summary

Published
24 February 2015
Civilians reported killed
7–20
Civilians reported injured
7
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

17 February 2015

Incident Code

CI039

Location

الموصل‎, Mosul, Cultural area, Nineveh, Iraq
According to NINA, citing a security source, nine members of a family – including women and children – died after coalition warplanes “bombed a house at dawn in the Althaqafiyah residential complex area in the north of Mosul, suspected of being taking a den or a hideout by Daash terrorists.”  

Summary

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

6 February 2015

Incident Code

CS052

Location

الرقة‎, Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria
A Jordanian airstrike against an “ISIL weapons compound” – in coordination with the US military – allegedly killed US aid worker and hostage Kayla Mueller, along with up to 30 militants from Islamic State. The US later said that “with the information that we have there’s no evidence of civilians in the target area prior…

Summary

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

2 February 2015

Incident Code

CS049

Location

الشدادي, Shadadi, Al Hassakah, Syria
Major coalition air raids on the oil fields around Shadadi reportedly led to the deaths of up to four non-combatants. Residents described a significant attack, with one site reporting: “Among the most prominent oil fields targeted were Al Rawees and Al Howyaziah east of Shadadi. The fires are also still burning in Kabiba close to…

Summary

Published
2 February 2015
Civilians reported killed
3–6
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

Incident Code

CI035

Location

الموصل‎, Mosul, Centre, Nineveh, Iraq
Citing a police source in the city, NINA claimed that nine civilians were killed and seven injured in an international coalition airstrike: “The source said that ‘the international coalition targeted the homes of civilians which resulted in the killing and injuring of dozens of civilians’… He pointed out that ‘the bodies of the martyrs arrived…

Summary

Published
28 January 2015
Civilians reported killed
9
Civilians reported injured
7
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

14 January 2015

Incident Code

CS043

Location

حماة, Um al Nayr, Idlib, Syria
A female civilian, a civil engineer, was reported by Syrian Martyrs to have been killed in a Coalition airstrike. Confused reporting placed her death either at Umm Al Nayr near Hama, or at nearby Kaferzita. However, VDC - which named the victim - stated that a 25 year old instead died in an attack by…

Summary

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

28 December 2014

Incident Code

CS039

Location

جرابلس, Jarabulus, Cultural center, Aleppo, Syria
An 8.30pm coalition bombing raid on Jarablos – a major Islamic State hub – destroyed a cultural centre being used as an ISIL headquarters in the town. According to Aleppo News, “According to activists, the strikes caused great devastation in the building in addition to the destruction of two civilian houses in the vicinity. Witnesses…

Summary

Published
28 December 2014
Civilians reported killed
3
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

28 December 2014

Incident Code

CS038

Location

الباب, Al-Bab, Aleppo, Syria
In one of the the worst known incidents of mass civilian casualties reportedly caused by coalition bombings, at least 51 non-combatants were killed when aircraft struck an Islamic State local headquarters, which was also being used as a temporary prison. Somewhere between 150 and 400 people were being held by ISIL on petty charges at…

Summary

Published
28 December 2014
Civilians reported killed
51–65
Civilians reported injured
20
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

26 December 2014

Incident Code

CI025

Location

الموصل‎, Mosul, Al Wehda, Nineveh, Iraq
Local residents reported that an “international airstrike” involving three missiles had struck houses killing and injuring civilians. NINA claimed that five women from one family were among the dead.  

Summary

Published
26 December 2014
Civilians reported killed
7
Civilians reported injured
4
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

Incident Code

CI018

Location

الموصل‎, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq
The FBI informed CENTCOM internally on November 21st 2014 that a source had alleged the deaths of “41 Yezidi captive females killed in a strike on a named OBJ IVO [objective in the vicinity of] Mosul.” The closest strike, number 999, was identified by CENTCOM as having taken place some 3.2km from the site of…

Summary

Published
19 November 2014
Civilians reported killed
41
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

17 November 2014

Incident Code

CI017

Location

القيارة, Qayyarah, Nineveh, Iraq
Multiple civilians were reported killed as a result of air raids launched by the coalition south of Mosul. The National Iraqi News Agency cited forensic sources as saying that 16 people, including six women and children, were killed. Other media reported that up to “22 Daesh militants” were also killed in coalition airstrikes in the…

Summary

Published
17 November 2014
Civilians reported killed
16
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

15 October 2014

Incident Code

CS012

Location

كۆبانی, Kobanî, Aleppo, Syria
A Kobanî official reported that a civilian – an 87 year old woman – and six Kurdish fighters from the Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG) died in a ‘friendly fire’ incident in the besieged city.It was also reported that two hospitals in the town had been destroyed. According to Sky News Arabia, Kurdish sources said that…

Summary

Published
15 October 2014
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

5 October 2014

Incident Code

CI007

Location

يت, Hit, Al Anbar, Iraq
It was reported by several sources in Hit that Coalition or Iraqi jets struck a number of civilian houses, killing up to 22 persons. Eight children and 3 women were reportedly among the dead. One of those quoted on the event was Nabil Souri, an Iraqi citizen working at Hit hospital, who learned that many…

Summary

Published
5 October 2014
Civilians reported killed
18–24
Civilians reported injured
43
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

24–29 September, 2014

Incident Code

CS009

Location

الرقة‎, Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria
A number of sources including the Syrian Martyrs website reported that a woman was killed in a Coalition airstrike on Ar Raqqah. She was reported as being a resident of the city. The3 Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies also reported her death fropm Coalition actions - though said this occured on September 24th: " Fawzia…

Summary

Published
29 September 2014
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

23 September 2014

Incident Code

CS001

Location

كفردريان, Kafr Daryan, Idlib, Syria
On the first night of US airstrikes in Syria, the United States carried out a sequence of attacks on the Al Qaeda-affiliated Khorasan Group (part of the al-Nusra Front.) For the only recorded occasion during the allied air war, the US deployed Tomahawk cruise missiles to strike targets in the vicinity of Aleppo. Locals also…

Summary

Published
23 September 2014
Civilians reported killed
13–18
Civilians reported injured
15
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

3 September 2014

Incident Code

CI003

Location

الوحدة, Mosul, Al Wahda, Nineveh, Iraq
A reported aerial bombardment (at 2200hrs local time) near an ISIL HQ east of Mosul, allegedly left up to seven members of the same family dead and injured in the al-Wadha Street area. At least three women were reported killed and a man and child injured. While Baghdad TV attributed the strike to US aircraft,…

Summary

Published
3 September 2014
Civilians reported killed
3–7
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

1–30 June, 2014

Incident Code

USSOM031-C

Location

Farigow, 3 km west of Jilib, Middle Juba, Somalia
Between one and five civilians, including women and children, were killed as the Farigow leper colony near Jilib, Middle Jubba was struck by unknown warplanes, international media reported. A woman living near the settlement told the Kenyan group Journalists for Justice that the colony was struck by jets by "mid 2014", killing one person and…

Summary

Published
20 May 2014
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
1–5
Civilians reported injured
3
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date

12 December 2013

Incident Code

USYEM177-C

Location

ٱلْبَيْضَاء‎, Al-Bayda Governorate, Yemen
On Thursday 12th December 2013, at around 4:30 in the afternoon, an alleged US drone launched between two to four missiles at a wedding procession which killed between 11 to 18 civilians and injured between seven to 110 in Radaa in al-Durrah, al Bayda, Yemen. The wedding convoy was reportedly returning from Al-Basier in the…

Summary

Published
12 December 2013
Strike Type
Airstrike (Drone Strike)
Infrastructure
Vehicle (Car, Truck)
Civilians reported killed
11–15
Civilians reported injured
7–110
Military actors reported killed
2–4
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date

1–30 June, 2013

Incident Code

USSOM026-C

Location

جيليب, Jilib, Middle Juba, Somalia
Drones and helicopters reportedly attacked outside the town of Jilib, in Somalia’s Middle Juba region, killing three people and seriously wounding seven, according to locals interviewed by the Kenyan group Journalists for Justice. Of the three people killed, two were women and one an elderly man, and of those wounded, three were reportedly children. As…

Summary

Published
1 June 2013
Strike Type
Airstrike (Drone Strike)
Civilians reported killed
3
Civilians reported injured
7
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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