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Airwars Assessment
(Previous Incident Code: S56)
According to Syria’s Violations Documentation Center, a Coalition airstrike at Tal Hamis – scene of a major battle between Kurdish forces and Islamic State at the time – resulted in the death of a male teenager.
In July 2017, the Coalition classed the event as non credible on grounds of lack of available evidence of civilian harm: “Feb. 23, 2015, near Tal Hamis, Syria, via Airwars report: After a review of available information and strike video it was assessed that there is insufficient evidence to find that civilians were harmed in this strike.”
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Reports of the incident mention the village of Tall Hamis (تل حميس), for which the generic coordinates are: 36.75514, 41.399094. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.
Image of 15 year old Sleiman Al-Khada’an killed in an alleged coalition raid on Tal Hamis on 23/02/2015. [Via: VDC]