Incident Code

CS1277

Location

بلدة الطيبة, Al Tayba, Deir Ezzor, Syria

Geolocation

35.0052619, 40.4581082
Accuracy: Neighbourhood/area

Airwars Assessment

Last Updated: December 15, 2024

(Previous Incident Code: S1122)

Up to 15 civilians including nine people from the same family died and dozens more were injured in airstrikes near Taybah in Mayadin, according to local sources – though reports were conflicted as to whether the Coalition or Russia were to blame.

The Step News Agency, Smart News Agency and Zamanalwasl were among sources pointing towards the US-led Coalition. According to Smart, nine civilians from one family – including five women – died, with dozens more injured.

The Step News Agency put the death toll even higher at 15.

Euphrates Post (who referred only to “military aircraft”) and other sources named victims from the Al-Manfi family (including four children).

A number of other sources said that the warplanes responsible had not be identified.

According to @zaidbenjamin, 14 non-combatants died, including five children and four women.

Other sources gave more detail on the locations of the strikes. Qasioun reported that “one of the raids targeted a house near the agricultural building in the town, killing two women and four children from one family”, while Euphrates Post added that strikes also “targeted the vicinity of Koniku gas field and the crossing of the town of Tiyana and Badia Albuqmal”. Multiple sources said that civilian homes were struck.

One source – the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights – suggested that the strikes may have been carried out by Moscow, reporting that “explosions were heard in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, as a result of airstrikes carried out by warplanes targeting locations in Taybah area. It is unknown whether the planes were Russian or belonged to the international Coalition”.

Victims

Family members (9)

Salman Saddam Al-Manfi
Age unknown killed
Abd al-Aziz Saddam Al-Manfi
Age unknown killed
Daughter of Saddam Al-Manfi
Age unknown female killed
Saddam’s Al-Manfi wife
Adult female killed
Hossan Hamid Al-Manfi
Age unknown male killed
Salman Hamed Al-Manfi
Age unknown killed
Daughter of Saddam Al-Manfi
Age unknown female killed
Umm Jassem, wife of Mohamed Hamada Al-Manfi
Adult female killed
Wife of Abed Hamid Al-Manfi
Adult female killed

Key Information

Country
Civilian Harm Reported
Yes
Civilian Harm Status
Contested
Competing claims of responsibility e.g. multiple belligerents, or casualties also attributed to ground forces.
Civilians reported killed
9–15
4–5 Children, 2–5 Women
Civilians reported injured
12–24

Military Statements

U.S.-led Coalition Assessment
Suspected belligerent
U.S.-led Coalition
U.S.-led Coalition position on incident
Non credible / Unsubstantiated
Reason for non-credible assessment
No Coalition strikes were conducted in the geographical area
Civilian deaths conceded
None
Civilian injuries conceded
None
Stated location
near al Tayba, Syria
U.S.-led Coalition Strike Report
For July 26th-27th: “Near Dayr Az Zawr, three strikes destroyed three ISIS well-heads.”
French Military Strike Report
In the last week (20th-27th) France reports carrying out two strikes in Raqqah, destroying two ISIL combat positions. Task Force (TF) Wagram carried out 21 artillery strikes in Mosul. The overall record of air activity since September 19th 2014 amounts to 1,324 strikes, 2,092 targets destroyed and 6,857 sorties.
UK Military Strike Report
‘Wednesday 26 July – a Reaper destroyed a terrorist truck in eastern Syria..A Royal Air Force Reaper flew an armed reconnaissance mission over eastern Syria on Wednesday 26 July. A group of armed terrorists were observed boarding a truck, and the Reaper’s crew tracked the vehicle as it headed west along a desert road, some 20 miles south-south-east of Hasakah, before engaging with a Hellfire missile once it was in an isolated location. The missile scored a direct hit which destroyed the truck.’
U.S.-led Coalition Civilian Casualty Statement
2018-05-31
Original Source
After a review of available information it was assessed that no Coalition strikes were conducted in the geographical area that correspond to the report of civilian casualties.
Russian Military Assessment
Suspected belligerent
Russian Military
Russian Military position on incident
Not yet assessed

Media From Sources (1)