In the morning on Tuesday, 10th June 2025, at least one civilian was killed and between three and five others were injured in a declared United States Central Command (CENTCOM) drone strike that hit a car in the town of Atmeh, north of Idlib, Syria. Both local sources and CENTCOM reported that one Islamic State (IS) militant was killed, and another “terrorist” was injured.

On 13 June 2025, CENTCOM released a statement confirming that the US military carried out a “micro-air raid” on June 10th that killed Raheem Boev, who they alleged was an IS official based out of Syria and was “involved in planning external operations that threaten US citizens, our partners, and civilians.” The post included an image of the destroyed car with teams attempting rescue.

En Baladi news reported that the strike hit a “Kia car” in the town of Atmeh, with the strike occurring an hour before another incident reportedly carried 20 kilometers away (CS2010). The Syrian Civil Defense reported that one person was killed and four others were injured in a missile strike in the morning from an “unidentified drone” that hit a car with four people as passengers. Noting that the casualties were unidentified at of the moment of reporting, they broke down the casualties as one dead and two injured within the car, one injured near a shop, and another injured by shrapnel while “he was inside a passenger bus traveling near the” strike location on the Al-Karama Camps Road in the city of Atmeh, northern Idlib. They further reported that nearby civilians administered first aid and moved the injured to hospitals, while the Civil Defense team “transferred the body of the deceased to the forensic medicine department in the city of Sarmada.”

A video shared to Twitter/X by user @SyrianUmayyad shared a video from the passenger bus which was reportedly hit by shrapnel. The videographer approaches the bus from the outside, showing a large hole in the front windshield of the bus. Upon entering, the videographer pans to glass on the ground and an overturned seat. The man taking the video identified the bus as bus 157, saying that it was hit by shrapnel. He said that people were injured inside of the bus and the injured were transferred to the hospital, along with the shrapnel. A boy or young man interjects at one point to say that he has a picture of the munition. As the videographer did not specify exactly how many of the bus’ passengers were injured, referring only to ‘people’, plural, Airwars has recorded the maximum number of injured passengers as two.

This is in line with a Facebook post from “Hama and its countryside”, which reported that the strike on a “public transportation bus” resulted in “several civilian casualties”, which coupled with the two injuries in the vehicle and injury near the shop, results in a maximum of five civilian injuries.

Twitter/X user @ibraheemMehdi4 added that across the two incidents – this one (CS2009) and the one which occurred an hour prior (CS2010) – three “terrorists” were killed and a militant was injured. As no injuries were reported by local sources in CS2010, the militant injury has been recorded in this incident.

Additionally, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights stated that between two drone strikes on June 10, “three [militant] figures were killed in the northern Idlib countryside”, with two of them attributed to the strike that occurred an hour earlier to this incident (CS2010), and added that the second strike “completely burned the vehicle.” Facebook page Our Tartousna further reported that the drone was an MQ-9, and that two individuals were killed in the incident – the identity and affiliation, if any, of the second person remains unknown. Meanwhile Al-arabiya Syria corroborated that two individuals had been killed in the strike on the car, and published footage of the rescue efforts with a body being carried away in a body bag, the wreckage of the car being lifted by a crane, and the debris being cleared by bulldozers. However other users on social media reported that one individual had been killed in the strike.

Images posted by the Syrian Civil Defense show the wreckage of the destroyed car, with a crowd of civilians and rescue personnel, as well as an image of what appears to be the body of the killed individual being transported in a body bag.

Multiple international and national sources quoted the official statements while reporting on the strikes.