Geolocation
Airwars assessment
A young adult male civilian was reported killed in an afternoon airstrike by the Coalition in Raqqah. He was named on a Facebook memorial page as Mut’ib Khamees Al Jarbou’.
No further details were given of how he had died.
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 15, 2015, in Raqqah, 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. 2822/CS115 37SEV008785”.
The Coalition also provided coordinates showing the area it had assessed, accurate to within 100 metres.
The incident occured in the afternoon.
The victims were named as:
Geolocation notes
Reports of the incident mention the city of Ar Raqqah (الرقة), for which the generic coordinates are: 35.9505639, 39.0094148. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.
Summary
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Media
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Mut’ib Khamees Al Jarbou’ (via Raqaa is Being Slaughtered Silently)
US-led Coalition Assessment:
Civilian casualty statements
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August 15, 2015, in Raqqah, 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. 2822/CS115 37SEV008785
Original strike reports
No Coalition strikes were publicly reported at Ar Raqaa between August 14th-16th 2015