Geolocation
Airwars assessment
Damascus Centre for Human Rights Studies named Bassam Abd Al Kareem Al Sai’id as a civilian victim of alleged Coalition bombing on Talbissa, Homs.
A second source naming him also as Abu Khaled, says he was from Talbissa, Homs but killed in Raqqa as a result of coalition bombing.
In its monthly civilian casualty assessment for October 2019 – published on December 5th of that year – the US-led Coalition assessed this event to be ‘non credible’, noting: “August 14, 2015, in Talbisah, Syria, via Airwars report. After a review of all available records it was assessed that no Coalition actions were conducted in the geographical area that corresponds to the report of civilian casualties. 2821/CS114 37SBU908579”.
The Coalition also provided coordinates showing the area it had assessed, accurate to within 100 metres.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
The victims were named as:
Geolocation notes
Reports of the incident mention the town of Talbisah (تلبيسة), for which the generic coordinates are: 34.8420186, 36.711974. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.
Summary
Sources (4) [ collapse]
US-led Coalition Assessment:
Civilian casualty statements
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August 14, 2015, in Talbisah, Syria, via Airwars report. After a review of all available records it was assessed that no Coalition actions were conducted in the geographical area that corresponds to the report of civilian casualties. 2821/CS114 37SBU908579
Original strike reports
No Coalition strikes were publicly reported in Homs governorate between August 13th-15th 2015.