Incident Code
Incident Code
Incident Date
Location
Geolocation
Geolocation
Airwars Assessment
(Previous Incident Code: I028)
According to Reuters, a Coalition airstrike caused significant casualties in Ar Rutbah: “Coalition planes bombed al-Rutba district, 385 km west of Baghdad, killing six Islamic State militants and 11 civilians, according to a source in the local hospital.”
ARA News placed the civilian death toll from coalition strikes at Rutba at 10.
In July 2017, the Coalition announced that it had classed the event as Non Credible on grounds of lack of available evidence of civilian harm: “Feb. 25, 2015, near Ar Rutbah, Iraq, via Airwars report: After a review of available information it was assessed that there is insufficient evidence to find that civilians were harmed in this strike.”
However based on reports at the time of the event, Airwars continues to class this event as Fair.
Key Information
Geolocation Notes
Reports of the incident mention the town of Ar Rutbah (الرطبة), for which the generic coordinates are: 33.037183, 40.285862. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.