Civilian Casualties

14 – 25

23–26

US-led Coalition, Unknown

الرقة‎, Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

A Jordanian airstrike against an “ISIL weapons compound” – in coordination with the US military – allegedly killed US aid worker and hostage Kayla Mueller, along with up to 30 militants from Islamic State. The US later said that “with the information that we have there’s no evidence of civilians in the target area prior

Summary

(1 woman)

القرارة, Al Qarara, Khan Younis, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On October 24th 2023, injuries were reported as a result of an alleged Israeli airstrike on the home of the Al-Aymawi family in the Al-Qarara neighbourhood of Khan Yunis. Shehab News Agency posted on Twitter/X about the attack, reporting injuries, and attributing the strike to Israeli aircraft. A second source, @K_a_p_s_o_l_a, also posted on Twitter/X

Summary

LOCATION

Raqqa, Syria

Eleven civilians from one family were killed in alleged Coalition airstrikes in Raqqa. Originally the names of the victims were published under incident number CS1054, however Amnesty research assessed that there were two separate strikes, this one occurring at 11pm, while the other occurred at 6pm. Amnesty has placed the strike on the 21st despite

Summary

(7 children2 women2 men)

15 named, 1 familiy identified

الرطبة, Ar Rutbah, Al Anbar, Iraq

LOCATION

In a likely US or British drone strike, a truck was inadvertently hit during an airstrike at Ar Rutbah, according to a declassified CENTCOM report. “2 seconds prior to weapon impact, a large truck inadvertently arrived at the checkpoint. The back section of the truck was possibly damaged during the strike.” The driver was observed

Summary

Known belligerent

منزل عائلة شيخ العيد في حي الصيامات الزطمة, Sheikh Al-Eid Family Home, Siamat Neighbourhood, Northern Rafah, Rafah, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

Around dawn on October 22nd 2023, five members of the Sheikh Al-Eid family were reportedly killed when an Israeli airstrike allegedly struck their family home in the Siamat Neighbourhood north of Rafah, near to the Mohandiseen Towers. It is unknown how many others were injured. 39-year-old Hanan Ahmed Abudllah Sheikh Al-Eid reportedly died in the attack

Summary

(1 child2 women2 men)

Israeli Military

5 named, 1 familiy identified

Names matched with MoH IDs

1.2 km east of Yontoy, Lower Juba, Somalia

LOCATION

Three civilians were reportedly killed in a US drone strike in Lower Juba. The attack began late on April 11 and continued into the small hour of April 12, Lt Col Michelle Baldanza of AFRICOM later said in a statement. The camp “posed an imminent threat to US personnel,” she said. Somali officials allege the

Summary

Airstrike, Drone Strike

(1 woman)

Belligerents reported killed

5–15

عربيد, Arbeed, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

A reported 1am airstrike on the ISIL-occupied village of Arbeed was said to have killed two women at the home of Adel al Kharfan. Mr al Kharfan’s wife (a mother of six children) died along with her relative, the wife of Ismael al Kharfan and a mother of four. Mr al-Kharfan’s son later told SN4HR:

Summary

(2 women)

2 named, 1 familiy identified

الدرباسية, residential neighborhoods in the city of Al-Darbasiyah, Al-Hasakah, Al-Hasakah, Syria

LOCATION

At least four civilians were wounded, including a child, in Al-Hasakah near the Turkish border on Sunday evening, November 27th, 2023. Nisreen Muhammad Aziz (nine years old), Lauren Ramadan Kalo (29 years old), Muhammad Louay Tawfiq (18 years old), and Hussein Mustafa (30 years old) were injured by a spray of bullets aimed at the Al-Darbasiyah district, north of

Summary

Small arms and light weapons

YPG, Turkish Military

4 named

هجين, Hajin, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

In an incident not previously tracked by Airwars, the Coalition later confirmed the injury of a civilian in an event near Hajin, Syria. The Pentagon later declared this to have been a US-caused incident. Their September 2019 civilian casualty report noted: “Coalition aircraft conducted an airstrike against Daesh terrorists. Regrettably, one civilian was unintentionally wounded

Summary

الموصل‎, Mosul, Muthana, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

A vehicle was reportedly bombed by the Coalition in Al Muthanna neighbourhood in Mosul, leading to claims that one civilian was killed and a further four were injured. Local residents’ site Hunaal Hadbaa said that a KIA Rio car was targeted in the attack, with shrapnel then killing and injuring civilians in the vicinity. One

Summary

1 – 2

(1 man)

منزل الدكتور محمد الرن, The house of Dr. Muhammad Al-Ran, Beit Lahia, Gaza strip, North Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On 26th October 2023 at around 1am in the morning, at least 12 civilians, all members of the al-Ran family, including five children and three women, were killed and several others were injured in an alleged airstrike by the Israeli military that struck the home of Dr. Muhammed al-Ran, in the town of Beit Lahia,

Summary

(5 children3 women4 men)

Israeli Military

12 named, 1 familiy identified

Names matched with MoH IDs

أبو سليم, Abu Salim, Tarabulus, Libya

LOCATION

Three people were reportedly injured by indiscriminate artillery shelling on the Abu Salim neighbourhood of Tripoli. The Municipal Council of Abu Salim published a statement saying: “As a result of the indiscriminate shelling of the Municipality of Abu Salim, a random rocket landed on the main road next to the traffic light. This rocket caused

Summary

Government of National Accord, Libyan National Army

تل براك, Tall Birak, or villages to the south, Al Hassakah, Syria

LOCATION

Reports emerged on the evening of September 5th that a 13-year old boy named as Abboud Al Kharnoub may have died in a Coalition strike in the vicinity of Tal Brak near al Hassakah. Baladi News also reported that a number of women were injured, without giving further details. It also said that the casualties

Summary

(1 child)

أريحا, residential neighborhoods of the city of Ariha (Jericho), Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

Shortly before 9:14 PM on Sunday, October 22, 2023, a missile strike with contested responsibility allegedly perpetrated by Syrian regime forces and/or Russian and/or Iranian military injured four to five civilians, including two women and at least one child, in the residential neighborhoods of the city of Ariha (Jericho) located in the southern countryside of

Summary

Healthcare facility, Residential building, School

4–5

Impact

Iranian Military, Russian Military, Syrian Regime

Homboy, Middle Juba, Somalia

LOCATION

US Africa Command declared on the same day that it had conducted an airstrike on al Shabaab in the vicinity of Jilib, which it said had killed one militant. It was later claimed that a 20-year old farmer named Mohamed Moalim was killed in the strike, with the location given as Hoombooy – although in

Summary

0 – 1

(1 man)

Belligerents reported killed

الأتارب, Al Atarib, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

In a Coalition targeted strike, three men were killed when a car was destroyed at Al Atarib on the road between Sarmada and Bab Al-Hawa. The Coalition originally reported destroying a car at Aleppo on October 15th-16th 2015. This was later amended to a US unilateral action, a targeted killing which the Pentagon said had

Summary

0 – 3

(0–3 men)

قرية سنجق خليل, Sanjak Khalil village in the district of Amouda, Al Hassakah, Syria

LOCATION

On Sunday, January 14th, 2024, two workers of the Abdullah Derbas (Al-Khairat) mill in the village of Sanjak Khalil in the district of Amouda (Amoda) on the road to the city of Hassakah in northeastern Syria were injured in a drone strike allegedly perpetrated by the Turkish military. Orkes FM posted the images of the

Summary

Airstrike, Drone Strike

Agriculture

Impact

IVO Janay Abdalle, Lower Juba, Somalia

LOCATION

An unspecified number was allegedly killed by a US strike on Janay Abdalle, which AFRICOM later discounted. In first quarterly civilian casualty assessment it says: “February 3, 2019, AFRICOM received one allegation from an online media source claiming an unspecified number of civilians were killed from an airstrike in the vicinity of Janay Abdalle, Somalia,

Summary

2 – 3

US Forces

العريشة, Al`Arishah, Al Hassakah, Syria

LOCATION

There were reports that two civilians named as Awwad Bandar Al Hamidi and his son (age presently unknown) Mahmoud Awwad Al Hamidi died after their vehicle was targeted by alleged Coalition aircraft on the road to Al Arisheh. Another source said the pair were on their way to the local cattle market when they died.

Summary

(0–1 children1–2 men)

سرمين, Sarmeen [Sarmin], Idlib, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

On Sunday, November 19th, 2023, two civilians, including at least one child, were injured as a result of an alleged missile strike by the Syrian regime forces and/or the Russian military in residential neighborhoods of the city of Sarmin, east of Idlib, Syria. One of the children was reportedly injured after falling from a high

Summary

Airstrike and/or Artillery

Causes of injury / death

Russian Military, Syrian Regime

حقل كونيكو النفطي, Koniko Oil Fields, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

One civilian was reported killed on May 1st, 2020 allegedly by a sniper bullet fired at him by the American troops in Koniko oil field in Deir Ezzor or by YPG/QSD members who guard the oil field as local sources said. The victim who worked as a teacher in Raqqa city was identified as Yasser

Summary

Airstrike, Counter-Terrorism Action (Ground)

(1 man)

US-led Coalition, YPG

1 named

حي سومر, Mosul, Sumer, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

Ten civilian prisoners were reportedly killed in an alleged 5 am Coalition strike on Mosul which targeted the Nineveh provincial council building. According to A3Maq, “international coalition aircraft launched at dawn on Wednesday several raids in which some 20 rockets were fired, The aircraft targeted the marriage contracts office, the Office of the Ombudsman and

Summary

الجيف, Al Jayf, Ma'rib, Yemen

LOCATION

In an email to The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, US Central Command stated that a strike had targeted four “AQAP terrorists” in Marib governorate on April 29th 2017. This confirmed reports that a US drone strike had killed at least two alleged AQAP militants in Al Jayf area, Al Jubah district of Marib governorate, early

Summary

Airstrike, Drone Strike

(2 men)

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)

Known belligerent

US Forces

Known target

2 named, 1 familiy identified

Belligerents reported killed

1–5

LOCATION

يت, Hit, Al Anbar, Iraq

According to multiple local sources, a Coalition or Iraqi government aircraft struck the Sina’i, Bakir and Jame’iya neighbourhoods in Hit district, western Anbar, resulting in the deaths of 2 or 3 civilians and the injuring of 5 more. Daesh-linked Al A’amaq said the strikes were the work of the Coalition. The Iraqi Spring Media Center

Summary

2 – 3

US-led Coalition, Iraq Government Forces

الباغوز, Al Baghouz, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

A single source reported that a named child originally from the city of Mohsen, and named as Omar Basim al-Aliwi, died from wounds sustained “several days ago” in an alleged Coalition airstrike on the town of Al Baghouz. Airwars has therefore placed the date range of this reported event as January 24th-26th. No other details are

Summary

(1 child)

يت, Hit, Qalqa neighbourhood, Al Anbar, Iraq

LOCATION

An alleged Coalition airstrike on the Qalqa neighbourhood of Hit resulted in 20 civilians reportedly injured, and one child was killed. According to Hit News, the home of gas seller Lutfi Abu was also hit. News of Iraq quoted what it said was a local source: “Warplanes of the international coalition bombed residential areas behind

Summary

(1 child)

المناطق تحت سيطرة داعش, al-Murshada and al-Safatna areas, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

A single source, Step News, reported that a number of civilians were killed and injured in the vicinity of al-Murshada and al-Safatna villages (in addition to members of ISIS), as a result of “triple artillery bombardment by the regime forces, the French artillery stationed in the Abulhassan desert, the artillery of the Iraqi army and

Summary

2 – 4

2–4

الموصل‎, Mosul, Al-Malyia, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

Four families comprising 36 civilians, including women and children, were killed in the Al-Maliya district east of Mosul in a strike by the international coalition, according to a senior medical source in Nineveh quoted by NINA. In a rarely named citation, Director of the Emergency General Hospital in Mosul Dr Mahdi al-Rubaie told the National

Summary

36 – 37

(11 children17–18 women)