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Airwars assessment
One woman and her child died in an alleged Coalition airstrike on Swaydya village, according to local sources.
Reports said that the Coalition struck Hussein al-Harfi’s house, killing his wife and his child, the girl.
Hasaka Rasd reported that “The International Alliance aircraft targeted the house of “Hussein Al-Harfi” in the village of Suweida Rural Ma’dan, resulting in the martyrdom of his wife and a small girl and the rest of the family in a critical situation”.
Smart News put the death toll at three: “Three civilians, including a woman and her child, were killed by a bombardment by warplanes in the village of Suwayda, located in the town of Ma’dan (about 61 km east of Raqqa).”
According to the Syrian Network for Human Rights, Coalition planes “fired near a school in Al Sweda village killing a girl and her mother and partially damaging the building”.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
The victims were named as:
Family members (2)
Geolocation notes
Reports of the incident mention the village of Sweiyda (سويدية), for which the generic coordinates are: 35.7517, 39.616. 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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The aftermath of an alleged Coalition raid on Swaydya, June 2nd (via RBSS)
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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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.
Original strike reports
For June 1st-June 2nd, the Coalition reported: “Near Raqqah, 11 strikes engaged nine ISIS tactical units and destroyed five vehicles, three fighting positions, a front end loader and an ISIS crane.” It also later added that on June 1st “Near Raqqah, Syria, five strikes engaged two ISIS tactical units and destroyed 17 fighting positions, an ISIS headquarters, an ISIS-held building, and an IED.”
For June 2nd-June 3rd, the Coalition reported: "Near Raqqah, 10 strikes [1 British] engaged seven ISIS tactical units and destroyed 12 vehicles, five fighting positions, four tactical vehicles, two VBIEDs and an ammunition cache." For June 2nd, the Coalition added: "Near Raqqah, Syria, three strikes engaged an ISIS tactical unit and destroyed three fighting positions."
"Friday 2 June – Tornados and Typhoons destroyed an armoured truck near Raqqa, and attacked eight targets in Mosul…A mixed Tornado and Typhoon pair used a Brimstone to destroy an armoured truck moving along a main road on the outskirts of Raqqa on Friday 2 June. Two other flights operated over Mosul, where attacks were delivered in very close support to the Iraqi forces, hitting eight Daesh positions with a mix of Brimstones and Paveway IVs. The targets included three machine-gun teams and three groups of terrorists armed with rocket-propelled grenades. In addition, a truck-bomb, concealed close to one of the positions, was also fortuitously detonated by one of the attacks."