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(Previous Incident Code: I084)
A family home was reported destroyed in an airstrike at Kubais in Anbar province. Photographs showed a number of injured children, although there were no confirmed overall casualty figures. One of the images used, however, had already been posted by a source in incident CI103.
In its July 2017 monthly report, the Coalition said it had not conducted strikes in the area on the day: “Sep. 19, 2015, near Al Kubais, Iraq, via Airwars report: After a review of available information it was assessed that no Coalition strikes were conducted in the geographic area that correspond to the report of civilian casualties.”
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Geolocation Notes
Reports of the incident mention the town of Kabaisa (كبيسة), for which the generic coordinates are: 33.591421, 42.612228. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.