Six civilians were wounded, some critically, on the 27th of April 2017 by airstrikes allegedly carried out by Russian warplanes in Daraa al-Balad, according to the Smart News Agency.
Aaswat said that the Assad regime also carried out strikes on Dara al Balad.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
At least one young woman was reported injured in eastern Kobane, after allegedly being hit by a Turkish-Russian patrol vehicle during on-going protests by locals against the presence of foreign forces in the area.
ANF reported that “the people protested against the patrol by throwing stones. A young woman was hit by a vehicle of the military convoy and was badly injured on her foot. She was then taken to the hospital of Kobanê. The injured woman explained that the vehicle had deliberately hit her”.
NPA and VDC reported that two civilian vehicles had been struck during the protests, while ANF claimed that the Turkish-Russian troops were deliberately targeting protesting civilians. The injured woman was said to have been taken to hospital, where she was treated for significant injuries to her leg or foot. NPA was alone in referencing two civilians injured in the event.
The location of the event was reported by one local source as the village of Tayri.
Local news source Rojava Information Centre reported that ‘local anger continues to grow’ against the Turkish-Russian patrols in and around Kobane.
The incident occured during the day.
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Reports of the incident mention the village of Tayri (تيري), for which the coordinates are: 36.841111, 38.469167. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.
Two or three civilians were reported injured in an alleged YPG artillery attack on Azaz, Aleppo governorate in Syria, on November 23rd, 2019, according to local sources.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
Reports of the incident mention the city of Azaz (اعزاز), for which the generic coordinates are: 36.585559, 37.051789. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.
One civilian was injured following an airstrike that destroyed his family home, according to the eyewitness.
Amnesty International shared the following field report with Airwars, citing an eyewitness: “I’m a simple ‘free worker’ from the same area in Hai Tenak. My friends and I make a living buying and selling car parts. I left on 17 April. This was before the area was liberated. The airstrikes (presumed) started during the day on 10 April. The airstrikes could be quite precise. The drones in the sky would spot ISIS targets, ISIS cars or mortar positions and after that the strikes would occur.
On 15 April I was at home with my wife and 10 children. I have four sons and four daughters and we live in a simple one storey house in Hai Tenak. The youngest child is three and the oldest is 20. We were hiding in the back room of our house. For four days we’d been hiding in that room. At around 9am my 9 year old daughter needed the bathroom. She got up and went outside into the hallway and into the bathroom. She came back and then the explosion happened. The rocket landed three metres away from my house and the bathroom completely collapse. Had my daughter been in there at the time she’d have been killed.”
I was injured in the leg but I’m not sure how it happened. After the explosion we all ran from the house and hid in another house that was empty. The ISF had told us to stay in our houses. ISIS were in a house across the street from us. Someone must have informed the ISF. I had hung my children’s clothes on the roof of our home so that the ISF would know that it’s a family home, not an ISIS home. The children’s clothes were on the roof when the rocket landed.”
The local time of the incident is unknown.
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.
After a review of available information and strike video it was assessed that there is insufficient evidence to find civilians were harmed in this strike.
For April 14th-15th: “Near Mosul, five strikes engaged an ISIS tactical unit, destroyed two rocket-propelled grenade systems, destroyed two fighting positions, damaged four supply routes and a fighting position, and suppressed an ISIS tactical unit.”
According to local sources, between three and seven civilians, including one women and her two children, were reported killed, and up to 28 others including four children and four women were reported injured allegedly when Russian or Syrian regime warplanes targeted the Central Prison, in western Idlib in Syria on December 2nd 2019.
A local source on Twitter, @Ahmad_1alshble, reported that the “final outcome” of the raid was the death of six people, “after the civil defense teams finished their work in the area” and they identified these people as: Samar Faisal Daad, Salem Silo’s child, Hanan Silo’s baby girl, Ahmed Said Silo, and two unknown young men. The mother was also reported to have been killed in the same strike along with her two children. Other sources said that those killed were all relatives of inmates in the prison, for example that the mother “was visiting her detained husband in the Central Prison.”
Zaman Al Wasl indicated that the mother and her two children were from the village of “Khirbet Mradin” in the west of Idlib.
According to Enabbaladi News, in a statement by the Ministry of Interior of the “Salvation Government” on December 3rd, it said that “nine raids were carried out by three planes.” The other sources mentioned that the prison was targeted with ten airstrikes at least – some reports put this number at 12 – and that some prisoners escaped from the prison that is believed to hold 2000 prisoners.
Human Rights Watch mentioned this incident in their October 2020 report saying “On December 2, 2019, at about 4 p.m., a strike hit the four-story building of the main functioning prison in the Idlib city area, between three and five kilometers to the west of the city, which was then holding at least 2,000 prisoners. About 200 staff were on duty. An Idlib-based lawyer who was visiting the prison at the time of the attack said: I was on the first floor in the prosecutor’s office, representing a client, when there was suddenly smoke everywhere and the smell of gunpowder. I ran out of the building and saw what looked like 30 prisoners escaping. I also saw a dead woman lying on the floor with her two dead children as I ran outside. They had been visiting her husband in prison. There was no information on injuries to prisoners or staff.”
Other sources do indicate that among the injured were prisoners and Zaiton Agency reported that as of December 2nd, “civil police are searching” for those that escaped when the raid happened.
This is not the first time that Central Prison has been targeted, Zaiton Agency reported that this happened before, in mid-March 2019 which led to the death and injury of dozens of prisoners.
The incident occured at approximately 4:00 pm local time.
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A single source reported that “activists pointed out that the raids targeted a prison near the village of Abu Qatour, belonging to the area of Jab Jarrah (about 55 km east of Homs), killing six members of the organisation and wounding four prisoners [civilians] who were transferred to hospitals in Deir Ezzor province.”
The source blamed Russia for the raid.
There are no other details at this time.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
Russia has not reported any specific strikes between June 1st - 31st 2017.
At least four civilians, including one child and two women, were killed and up to dozens were wounded in alleged Russian airstrikes that coincided with Syrian regime artillery strikes in the city centre of Al Barah on December 7th, 2019, according to local sources.
Step News Agency reported that Russian raids targeted the main street in the city centre, as well as a mosque and school, while the Syrian regime simultaneously targeted the city with artillery. The Syrian Network for Human Rights reported that Al Rahman mosque in the suburbs of Al Barah was hit and partly destroyed by Russian airstrikes and Shaam News added that a bakery was also struck. According to the Syrian Civil Defence, the homes of civilians were targeted as well. MMC reported that a popular market was targeted.
According to Smart News Agency, a child and two women were among those killed, and another woman was wounded. According to Ahira, the fourth fatal victim was a male civilian. @SY_plus gave a civilian death toll of five. The Syrian Committee for Human Rights reported that the names of the killed civilians were: Halima Muhammad Al Qashlan, Baraa Abdul Halim Al Qashlan, Fatim Hatim Al Sayyadi and Khaled Haj Hamidi.
Orient News identified Fatim as being displaced from the city of Halfaya, adding that Halima and Fatim were women and Bara’a was a child.
Macro Media Center also reported that four civilian were killed, adding that dozens were wounded as in the strikes on the market. Various other sources also identified “dozens” injured without specifying how many. A video of an injured baby was tweeted by @turkistantuzbah but it is unclear if the child was injured in Al-Bara or another incident the same day.
Our Syria News mentioned that vacuum missiles were used in the attack and MF-SY added that four airstrikes were carried out.
The incident occured in the morning.
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In a press release issued on the same day, US Africa Command reported that it had targeted and killed a senior al Shabaab figure in the vicinity of Jilib, in Middle Juba.
“At this time, it is assessed the airstrike killed one (1) terrorist. Strikes near Jilib disrupt al-Shabaab’s freedom of maneuver. The individual targeted had direct ties to the al-Qaeda terror organization. Currently, we assess no civilians were injured or killed as a result of this airstrike,” AFRICOM asserted.
No additional public details are presently known regarding this event.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
Reports of the incident mention that the strike took place in the vicinity of the town Jilib (جيليب), for which the coordinates are: 0.494527, 42.777868. Due to limited information and satellite imagery available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.
In coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia, U.S. Africa Command conducted an airstrike targeting an al-Shabaab terrorist in the vicinity of Jilib, Somalia, on Nov. 12.
"This strike is an example of the successful incursions our Somali partners are making into al-Shabaab territory," said U.S. Army Maj. Gen. William Gayler, director of operations, U.S. Africa Command. “Together, with the Federal Government of Somalia, we remain resolute to maintain pressure on al-Shabaab’s network and levels of leadership while countering violent extremist intentions and actions.”
At this time, it is assessed the airstrike killed one (1) terrorist. Strikes near Jilib disrupt al-Shabaab’s freedom of maneuver. The individual targeted had direct ties to the al-Qaeda terror organization.
Currently, we assess no civilians were injured or killed as a result of this airstrike.
U.S. Africa Command will continue to work with its partners to transfer the responsibility for long-term security in Somalia from AMISOM to the Federal Government of Somalia and its Member States. In support of the Federal Government of Somalia, U.S. forces will use all effective and appropriate methods to assist in the protection of the Somali people, including partnered military counterterrorism operations with the Federal Government of Somalia, AMISOM, and Somali National Army forces.