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(Previous Incident Code: S46)
A non-combatant civilian male, Abd Al Rahman Ahmad Bkar, from the town of Al Kussair near Homs was reported killed in an airstrike.
While Syrian Martyrs attributed the strike to the Coalition, VDC blamed the Assad regime. Other reports were unclear. The location of the man’s death was also confused, given variously as Kobane in Aleppo governorate, or eastern al Buwaida, near Homs.
In its monthly civilian casualty report for October 2019 – published on December 5th of that year, the Coalition assessed the event as ‘non credible’, noting that “January 29, 2015, in Tayyani, Syria, via Airwars report. The allegation provided insufficient detail to identify a specific date, time, or location to search for corroborating Coalition action. 2794/CS048 37SFU413734”
Coalition officials also provided Airwars with a geolocation to within 100 metres of the area reviewed.
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Reports of the incident mention the village of Eastern Al Buwaida or Kobane (الطيانة), for which the generic coordinates are: 34.993798, 40.548059. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.