Incident Code
Incident Date
Location
Geolocation
Geolocation
Airwars Assessment
(Previous Incident Code: S717)
Six to 17 civilians were reportedly killed and as many as hundreds more wounded in the villages of Ya’rob and al Sakhoura in the western Raqqa countryside. However sources were conflicted as to whether they died in a Coalition airstrike or artillery shelling by YPG forces.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the only source thus far, alleged that the Coalition was responsible for airstrikes, but reported that there was also shelling by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) which could have been responsible for the deaths also. Most sources blamed YPG shelling.
24Raqqa put the death toll at nine but said that hundreds more were wounded.
Madar Daily put the death toll as high as 17.
Victims
Family members (3)
Family members (2)
Individuals
Key Information
Geolocation Notes
Reports of the incident mention the village of Ya’arob (يعرب), for which the generic coordinates are: 35.976944, 38.873056. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.