Geolocation
Airwars assessment
A man, his wife and his son were reported killed and six members of their family wounded in an alleged Coalition airstrike on “the garage and the market” in the Al Manghiya neighbourhood of Tabaqa, according to local media.
Citing a local source, Al Watan said that “[Coalition] aircraft targeted the industrial zone and the garage in the market and Al-Manghiya neighborhood in the town of Al-Tabaqa (55 km west of the city of Raqqa) under the control of Daesh, resulting in the killing of a man, his wife and his son and the wounding of six other relatives.”
The local time of the incident is unknown.
Geolocation notes
Reports of the incident mention the town of Tabaqah, Al Manghiya (الثورة), for which the generic coordinates are: 35.8295049, 38.5360909. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.
Summary
Sources (6) [ collapse]
Attached to this civilian harm incident is a provisional reconciliation of the Pentagon's declassified assessment of this civilian harm allegation, based on matching date and locational information.
The declassified documents were obtained by Azmat Khan and the New York Times through Freedom of Information requests and lawsuits filed since March 2017, and are included alongside the corresponding press release published by the Pentagon. Airwars is currently analysing the contents of each file, and will update our own assessments accordingly.
US-led Coalition Assessment:
Civilian casualty statements
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The report contains insufficient information of the time, location and details to assess its credibility.
Original strike reports
For April 9th-10th: “Near Tabqah, 14 strikes engaged an ISIS tactical unit; destroyed five vehicles, two fighting positions, and a VBIED; and suppressed an ISIS tactical unit.”