Airwars assessment
In a previously untracked event, on December 28th, 2017 the Coalition admitted responsibility for an incident, reporting: Oct. 17, 2017, near Al Qaim, Iraq via self-report. During a Coalition strike which destroyed one ISIS VBIED production facility, two ISIS support buildings and ISIS weapons cache it was assessed that one civilian was unintentionally killed.
One local source also reported the bombing of three ISIS locations and 7 cars.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
Summary
Sources (2) [ collapse]
Geolocation notes (0) [ collapse]
The Coalition report mentions the city of Al Qaim (القائم), for which the generic coordinates are: 34.3957715, 40.9943684. Due to limited information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.
US-led Coalition Assessment:
Original strike reports
For October 16th-17th the Coalition stated that “Near Al Qaim, one strike destroyed a VBIED factory.”
Civilian casualty statements
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During a Coalition strike which destroyed one ISIS VBIED production facility, two ISIS support buildings and ISIS weapons cache it was assessed that one civilian was unintentionally killed. (1783)