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Incident Date
8 March 2017
Incident Code
CI521
Location
17 تموز, Mosul, July 17th, Nineveh, Iraq
A single source, the Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights, reported that 11 civilians from one family died in a Coalition airstrike on Tammuz 17. Iraqi military intelligence issued a statement saying the Coalition had targeted senior ISIL leaders in the area: “The US-led coalition led by the United States killed three senior leaders of the…
Summary
Published
8 March 2017
Civilians reported killed
11
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
7 March 2017
Incident Code
RS1937
Location
العطشانة, Al'Atshana, Maskanah, Hama, Syria
Local media reported that airstrikes, carried out by either Russia or the Syrian regime, killed two children and two women and wounded several others as the village of al-Atashana near Hama was struck. Raqqa Post reported that the four victims were from the Eid al-Ramdan family. Sources were, however, unclear as to whether Russia or the…
Summary
Published
7 March 2017
Civilians reported killed
4
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
7 March 2017
Incident Code
CI518
Location
المنصور, Mosul, Al Mansour, Nineveh, Iraq
There were reports that children and women were killed or injured due to different kinds of shelling and airstrikes on Mansour neighborhood in West Mosul. @shvm_90 said in a Tweet: “Heavy shelling and brutal air and artillery aimed at reviving #right side [of Mosul] and the strongest was on #Mansour neighborhood and the fall of…
Summary
Published
7 March 2017
Civilians reported killed
2–10
Civilians reported injured
2–10
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
7 March 2017
Incident Code
CI519
Location
Mosul, Dur al Resala, Nineveh, Iraq
Nine members of a family were reported killed in an airstrike in ‘early to mid March’ including four children and three women. Amnesty International has published the following account: “Witnesses told Amnesty International that in early-mid March (they could not be certain of the exact date), a warplane hit two houses in al-Risala neighbourhood, near…
Summary
Published
7 March 2017
Civilians reported killed
9
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
6 March 2017
Incident Code
CI514
Location
الدواسة, Mosul, Dawassa area, Nineveh, Iraq
Local residents sources said that between 41 and 52 civilians were killed, including 23 children and one woman, and more than 70 injured after Coalition airstrikes and shelling by Iraqi government forces struck civilian homes at dawn, at the right side of Mosul. Witnesses told Iraq News that there were “dozens of women and children…
Summary
Published
6 March 2017
Civilians reported killed
41–52
Civilians reported injured
70
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
6 March 2017
Incident Code
CI515
Location
النبي شيث, Mosul, Nabi Sheet, Nineveh, Iraq
Local sources reported that 16 civilians were killed and dozens of others injured in violent clashes and airstrikes on Nabi Sheet neighbourhood. Mosul Ateka posted a photo (see below) of the aftermath, stating “This is the area of Nabi Sheet, the centre of Mosul city, and the main market for handicraft and construction...” A UN…
Summary
Published
6 March 2017
Civilians reported killed
13–16
Civilians reported injured
7–24
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
6 March 2017
Incident Code
CS553
Location
الخاتونية, Khatouniya, Raqqa, Syria
A single source blamed the Coalition for the death of a woman and the injuring of four more civilians in the al Khatouniya and al Salhabiya areas. According to Smart News, “A local source said three raids affected the villages of al Khatouniya and al Salhabiya in the western countryside, killing a woman and wounding…
Summary
Published
6 March 2017
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
4
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
5 March 2017
Incident Code
RS1934
Location
قبتان الجبل, Qubtan Al-Jabal, Aleppo, Aleppo, Syria
Up to three civilians, including one male child and one woman, were killed along with up to ten wounded, local media reported following alleged Russain shelling of Qubtan Al-Jabal, Aleppo. At least one child was killed by the airstrikes. Additionally, many sources also reported the death of one man and woman. @kobtan_aljabal added that the child…
Summary
Published
5 March 2017
Civilians reported killed
1–3
Civilians reported injured
2–10
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
5 March 2017
Incident Code
RS1935
Location
مسكنة, Maskanah, Aleppo, Aleppo, Syria
Up to four civilians, possibly two children and two women, and up to nine more in alleged Russian or regime airstrikes on Maskanah, local media reported. Two of the victims were reportedly female children. One source added that two women also died when their home was struck. The number of wounded varied among the sources,…
Summary
Published
5 March 2017
Civilians reported killed
2–4
Civilians reported injured
2–9
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
5 March 2017
Incident Code
CI512
Location
Mosul, Souq al-Sha’areen neighborhood, Nineveh, Iraq
A UN report on the protection of civilians in context of Nineveh operations and the retaking of Mosul stated: “In the morning of 5 March, an airstrike targeted an ISIL post in the ISIL—controlled residential area of the Souq al-Sha’areen neighbourhood, in central Mosul. Sources reported that a civilian home was hit, killing seven civilians,…
Summary
Published
5 March 2017
Civilians reported killed
7
Civilians reported injured
5
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
4 March 2017
Incident Code
RS1933
Location
كفرنبل, Kafr Nabil, Idlib, Syria
Referring to this incident as a "massacre", multiple sources reported that Russian or Assad-waged warplanes struck the city of Kafr Nabil, Idlib, killing up to seven civilians largely from one family - wounding "dozens" more. According to Orient News's sources on the ground, "the Russian air force targeted the city of Kafr Nabil west of…
Summary
Published
4 March 2017
Civilians reported killed
4–7
Civilians reported injured
4–24
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
4 March 2017
Incident Code
CI509
Location
المنصور, Mosul, Al Mansour, Nineveh, Iraq
Local sources said that a number of civilians were killed or injured, mostly children and women, when airstrikes struck the Shula kindergarten in Mansour neighborhood, at the right side of Mosul. According to press sources, the warplanes had targeted an ISIL headquarters. None of the sources identified the warplanes. Wadi Hajar (Facebook) posted a photo…
Summary
Published
4 March 2017
Civilians reported killed
2–4
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
4 March 2017
Incident Code
RS1930
Location
الدانا, al-Dana, Idlib, Syria
Up to seven civilians, including children and women, were killed and "dozens" more were wounded as al-Dana, Idlib, in three airstrikes, carried out by Russia or the Syrian regime, local media reported. Three men from the same family were reportedly among the victims. Multiple sources added that one or two children and several women were…
Summary
Published
4 March 2017
Civilians reported killed
3–7
Civilians reported injured
3–24
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
3 March 2017
Incident Code
CI505
Location
Mosul, Al Mahatta, Nineveh, Iraq
Local residents said a number of civilians were killed after an alleged airstrike struck the Abu Huraira School in the station area. The school was reportedly being used by displaced families fleeing the violence in other neighbourhoods. Mosul Ateka (Facebook) reported Fawad Ali Abu Abdullah as having been killed in the raids on March 3rd,…
Summary
Published
3 March 2017
Civilians reported killed
10–21
Civilians reported injured
2–15
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
3 March 2017
Incident Code
CS548
Location
الثورة, Tabaqah, Raqqa, Syria
Up to 12 civilians were reported killed and four injured in an air raid which most sources blamed on the Coalition. According to MicroSyria “Warplanes carried out two raids in Tabaqa which is under the control of ISIL and killed 5 civilians, and wounded others including women and children who were taken to hospitals.” Smart…
Summary
Published
3 March 2017
Civilians reported killed
5–12
Civilians reported injured
4
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
3 March 2017
Incident Code
RS1927
Location
تدمر, Palmyra, Homs, Syria
In this single-source incident, the Smart News Agency "that five dead and 14 wounded, including women and children, arrived at the al Tabaqa hospital". It said they had died in a bombing by "military aircraft" on Palmyra's eastern desert - and went on to say that the culprit was likely to be Russia. It is…
Summary
Published
3 March 2017
Civilians reported killed
5
Civilians reported injured
14
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
2–3 March, 2017
Incident Code
USYEMTr025-C
Location
وادي يشبم, Yashbum Valley, Shabwa, Yemen
Several sources reported that US airstrikes and ground forces targeted AQAP militants, including alleged leader Saad Atef, in the Yashbum Valley of al-Saeed district in Shabwa province, overnight from March 2nd-3rd 2017, following airstrikes in the same area early on March 2nd. There were multiple allegations of civilian harm as a result of heavy munitions…
Summary
Published
2 March 2017
Strike Type
Airstrike
,
Counter-Terrorism Action (Ground)
Infrastructure
Agriculture
(
Factory
),
Residential
,
Resources
(
Gas Facility
)
Civilians reported killed
10–14
Civilians reported injured
4
Military actors reported killed
7–11
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
,
Small arms and light weapons
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
2–3 March, 2017
Incident Code
USYEMTr026-C
Location
يكلا, Yakla, Al Bayda, Yemen
Multiple sources suggested that US airstrikes targeted alleged AQAP militants in al-Ghail village and in the broader Yakla area of Qaifa, Bayda governorate, overnight from March 2nd to March 3rd, killing at least three alleged militants. Some sources reported that there was an unspecified number of civilian casualties. Local sources reported that the overnight strikes…
Summary
Published
2 March 2017
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Residential
Civilians reported killed
4
Military actors reported killed
3
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
2 March 2017
Incident Code
CS546
Location
الرصافة, Al Rasafa, Raqqa, Syria
According to Smart News, five civilians died and two were injured in an alleged Coalition airstrike on Al Rasafa. Smart reported that the warplanes – “likely” belonging to the Coalition – “bombed a bus as it passed through on the road from al Rasafa to al Mansoura (30 km west of Raqqa City), after civilians…
Summary
Published
2 March 2017
Civilians reported killed
5
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
1 March 2017
Incident Code
CI500
Location
النبي شيث, Mosul, Nabi Sheet, Nineveh, Iraq
Local residents said 14 civilians from three families were killed in a Coalition airstrike reportedly targeting a car bomb parked near their houses in Nabi Sheet neighborhood, at the right side of Mosul. The sources reported that “the victims’ bodies [are] still under the rubble and could not be pulled out because of the intensification…
Summary
Published
1 March 2017
Civilians reported killed
14
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
28 February 2017
Incident Code
RS1925
Location
حطلة, Hatla, Deir Ezzor, Syria
Between 11 and 13 civilians were killed at a river crossing point in Hatla by alleged Russian aircraft, local sources reported. Other civilians were wounded but no specific numbers were reported. All sources blamed Russia for the raid. Sources reported that women and children were included in the death toll. There was not only destruction…
Summary
Published
28 February 2017
Civilians reported killed
11–13
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
28 February 2017
Incident Code
RS1923
Location
ترملا, Tramla, Idlib, Syria
Three members of one family were killed - including a father, daughter and granddaughter - and others were wounded, following an alleged Russian and Syrian regime raid on Tramla, local media reported. All sources except Idlib Media Centre - who said the regime was responsible - attributed blame to Russia. According to sources, a vacuum…
Summary
Published
28 February 2017
Civilians reported killed
3
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
27 February 2017
Incident Code
RS1920
Location
اريحا, Ariha, Idlib, Syria
As many as 20 civilians were killed, and dozens more were wounded, in an airstrike on Ariha. Sources were conflicted as to who was to blame. Around half the sources blamed Russian warplanes, while the rest pointed to the Syrian regime. Some sources such as Idlib Media Centre blamed both parties for the raids. SMO…
Summary
Published
27 February 2017
Civilians reported killed
7–20
Civilians reported injured
12–30
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
27 February 2017
Incident Code
RS1922
Location
الهزاني, Al-Hazani, Aleppo, Aleppo, Syria
Three civilians were killed, and others were wounded, in an alleged air and artillery strike on Al-Hazani, Aleppo. Sources were conflicted as to who was to blame. Two sources reported that Russia was responsible for the raid, whilst others attributed blame to the Syrian regime. SyriaMubasher reported that military aircraft were to blame - therefore not attributing…
Summary
Published
27 February 2017
Civilians reported killed
0–3
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
27 February 2017
Incident Code
RS1919
Location
ابو الهناية/خفسة, Abu Hanaya/Khafsa, Aleppo, Aleppo, Syria
Between eight and ten civilians were reported killed - and others were reported wounded - following alleged Russian shelling on Abu Hanaya/Khafsa, Aleppo. All sources attributed blame to Russian warplanes. Aranews claimed that a large number of civilians was wounded, no other sources gave specific details on the wounded. There are no other details at this…
Summary
Published
27 February 2017
Civilians reported killed
8–10
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
25 February 2017
Incident Code
CS535
Location
الخاتونية, Khatouniyah, Raqqa, Syria
Between three and four civilians including two women died and four more were wounded in an alleged Coalition airstrike on the village of Khatouniya in the western Raqqa countryside and the village of Hamra Blassen in the eastern countryside of Raqqa, according to local sources. Smart’s source said that the strike was likely to have…
Summary
Published
25 February 2017
Civilians reported killed
3–4
Civilians reported injured
4
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
25 February 2017
Incident Code
RS1914
Location
دوما, Douma, Damascus, Syria
Eleven named civilians were killed - including five children, a woman and two men - and dozens more were wounded in an alleged air and artillery strike on a market in Douma, according to reports from the ground. Sources were conflicted as to who was to blame. Many attributed the strikes to Russian missiles, while…
Summary
Published
25 February 2017
Civilians reported killed
11–13
Civilians reported injured
12–24
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
24 February 2017
Incident Code
RS1912
Location
الحميرات, Al-Hmeirat, Hama, Syria
Sources reported that eight people from one family were killed and dozens more were wounded when an alleged Russian and/or Syrian regime raid struck their home in Al-Hmeirat. Most sources blamed Russia, though some also pointed to the Syrian regime. Members of the Civil Defence spent time pulling bodies and injured civilians out of the rubble.…
Summary
Published
24 February 2017
Civilians reported killed
8–9
Civilians reported injured
12–24
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
22 February 2017
Incident Code
CS524
Location
Kabish Sharqi and Tishreen farm villages, Raqqa, Syria
Four civilians including one child and one woman died in an alleged Coalition airstrike on Kabish Sharqi and Tishreen farm villages, according to a single source, the Smart news agency. No further details are currently available.
Summary
Published
22 February 2017
Civilians reported killed
4
Civilians reported injured
6
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
21 February 2017
Incident Code
CS517
Location
السحامية, Al Sahamiya, Raqqa, Syria
Between five and nine civilians including three chilren died in an alleged Coalition airstrike on Al Sahamiya village, Raqqa, according to local sources. Baladi, Euphrates Post, the Shaam News Network and Step News Agency all blamed the Coalition. Raqqa is being Slaughtered Silently – whICH also attributed the incident to the Coalition – reported “that…
Summary
Published
21 February 2017
Civilians reported killed
5–9
Civilians reported injured
8
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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