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Incident Date

3 January 2020

Incident Code

CI879

Location

مطار بغداد الدولي‎, Baghdad International Aiport, Baghdad, Iraq
Possibly one civilian was killed and an unknown number of civilians injured in a confirmed U.S. airstrike that killed Iranian national Qassam Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force, on Baghdad International Airport at January 3rd, 2020. The New York Times reported that an "American MQ-9 Reaper drone fired missiles into a convoy that was leaving…

Summary

Published
3 January 2020
Strike Type
Airstrike (Drone Strike)
Civilians reported killed
0–1
Civilians reported injured
2
Military actors reported killed
11–13
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition, U.S. Forces
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Incident Date

2 January 2020

Incident Code

LC270

Location

الفرناج, Al Fornaj, Tarabulus, Libya
Local sources reported that a woman died as a result of alleged Haftar forces' indiscriminate shelling on Al Fournaj area in Tripoli, Libya, on January 2nd, 2020. The woman who was killed after a random mortar hit her house is believed to belong to Al Aswad Family, but no other details are available at this…

Summary

Published
2 January 2020
Strike Type
Artillery
Civilians reported killed
1
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Libyan National Army
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Incident Date

2 January 2020

Incident Code

LC271

Location

بن عاشور, Ben Ashour, Tarabulus, Libya
According to local sources, three random mortar shells landed on Ben Ashour area in Tripoli, Libya on January 2nd, 2020. One of the mortars fell on the house of Quraira Ammar family causing injuries among civilians, while the other two fell on Al Sikka road. According to Africa Gate, civilians were warned not to gather…

Summary

Published
2 January 2020
Strike Type
Artillery
Civilians reported injured
2–3
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Government of National Accord, Libyan National Army
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Incident Date

2–3 January, 2020

Incident Code

USYEMTr216

Location

الجراف/حدة, Al Jarf/Hadda, Sana'a, Yemen
A US drone strike reportedly targeted Abdul Reza Shahlai, an Iranian Revolutionary Guard and Qods Force commander in Sana'a, overnight from January 2nd-3rd 2020. While initial reports suggested that Shahlai had been killed in the strike, official sources later indicated that he had survived. There was some indication that another Iranian soldier was killed, however.…

Summary

Published
2 January 2020
Strike Type
Counter-Terrorism Action (Ground), Airstrike (Drone Strike)
Military actors reported killed
1
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions, Small arms and light weapons
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date

1 January 2020

Incident Code

TS404

Location

تل أبيض, Tal Abyad, Raqqa, Syria
One civilian, named as Ammar Alhaji, was reportedly shot dead by members of the al Majd Brigade of the Syrian National Army. According to Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently, the man was "shot dead while he was trying to prevent fighters of Turkish-backed Al-Majd Legion from stealing his car.". Euphrates Post reported that the victim was…

Summary

Published
1 January 2020
Strike Type
Counter-Terrorism Action (Ground)
Civilians reported killed
1
Causes of Death / Injury
Small arms and light weapons
Military Actor
Turkish Military
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Incident Date

1 January 2020

Incident Codes

IRS004 RS4299

Location

سرمين, Sarmin, Idlib, Syria
Up to 11 civilians including seven children and two women were reported killed, and up to 25 others including three children and three women - one of whom was pregnant - were injured in an alleged Russian, Iranian forces or Syrian regime shelling with a cluster missile or a rocket carrying cluster bombs on 'Martyr…

Summary

Published
1 January 2020
Strike Type
Artillery
Infrastructure
Commerce (Market), Education (Nursery, Primary School)
Civilians reported killed
7–11
Civilians reported injured
12–25
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Russian Military, Iranian Military
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Incident Date

1 January 2020

Incident Code

LC268

Location

شارع الكنيسة, Al Kanisa Street, Tarabulus, Libya
In the first incident of 2020, three civilians were reported killed and five others injured after an alleged LNA or UAE airstrike on a blacksmith store in Al Kanisa street in Al Swani, Tripoli, Libya on January 1st, 2020, according to local sources. A child was also wounded after the missile hit her house near…

Summary

Published
1 January 2020
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
3
Civilians reported injured
5
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Libyan National Army, LNA/UAE Military/Egyptian Military
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Incident Date

1 January 2020

Incident Code

LC269

Location

مشروع الهضبة, Hadaba project, Tarabulus, Libya
One civilian was reported killed and three others including a 70-year-old woman were injured by shrapnel in alleged LNA shelling on the Hadaba Project area in Tripoli, Libya on January 1st, 2020, according to local sources. The fatality was identified as Issam Wanis Al-Drou’i Al-Warfalli and sources reported that the four civilians might belong to the…

Summary

Published
1 January 2020
Strike Type
Airstrike and/or Artillery
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
3
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Libyan National Army
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Incident Date

31 December 2019–1 January 2020

Incident Code

LC267

Location

قصر أبو هادي, Qasr Abu Hadi, Surt, Libya
Conflicting reports emerged of alleged airstrikes by an unknown belligerent on the night of December 31st, 2019 and January 1st, 2020 on Abu Hadi area near the city of Sirte. A Central Gate reporter quoted local sources, who said that three people had died and two people were wounded in airstrikes on the Abu Hadi…

Summary

Published
31 December 2019
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
3
Civilians reported injured
2
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Unknown
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Incident Date

30 December 2019

Incident Code

RS4298

Location

قرية الشيخ أحمد, Sheikh Ahmed village, Aleppo, Syria
On December 30th, between four and five civilians, including up to two women and two children, were wounded by Russian or regime air strikes, with ten vacuum missiles and two cluster bombs, launched upon the village of Sheikh Ahmed in the southern countryside of Aleppo. Local sources initially reported four wounded civilians and Civil Defense…

Summary

Published
30 December 2019
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported injured
4–5
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

30 December 2019

Incident Code

LC266

Location

شارع ولي العهد, Wali Al Ahed street, Tarabulus, Libya
One child (14) and a young man (18) were injured in alleged Libyan National Army shelling on Wali Al Ahed street in Abo Salim area of Tripoli on December 30th, 2019, according to local sources. Tk Yahrouq Kul Shy posted on Facebook that "a random shell landed in Wali Al Ahed street in front of…

Summary

Published
30 December 2019
Strike Type
Airstrike and/or Artillery
Civilians reported killed
2
Civilians reported injured
2
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Libyan National Army
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Incident Date

29 December 2019

Incident Code

USSOM261-C

Location

Vicinity of Kunyo Barrow, Somalia
In retaliatory actions against al Al Shabaab for a mass casualty bombing in Mogadishu a day earlier, the United States said that it had conducted three strikes against al Shbaab commanders, killing four people in total.This entry relates to one of two strikes in the vicinity of Kunyo Barrow in Lower Shabelle. Al Shabaab itself…

Summary

Published
29 December 2019
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
0–2
Military actors reported killed
1
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date

29 December 2019

Incident Code

USSOM262

Location

Vicinity of Kunyo Barrow, Lower Shabelle, Somalia
In retaliatory strikes against al Al Shabaab for a mass casualty bombing in Mogadishu a day earlier, the United States said that it had conducted three strikes against al Shbaab commanders, killing four people in total. This entry relates to one of two strikes in the vicinity of Kunyo Barrow in Lower Shabelle. According to…

Summary

Published
29 December 2019
Strike Type
Airstrike
Military actors reported killed
1
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date

29 December 2019

Incident Code

LC264

Location

شرفة الملاحة, Shurfat Al Malaha, Tarabulus, Libya
Airstrikes by the LNA and/or UAE on the Shurfat Al Malaha residential area, in the vicinity of Tripoli's Mitiga Airport, reportedly killed an elderly woman and injured several more civilians including a child. Libya al Ahrar named the elderly victim as Al-Haja Zahra Al-Tamtam. Burkan al Ghadab said that two persons "from the expatriate labor…

Summary

Published
29 December 2019
Strike Type
Airstrike and/or Artillery
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
3
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Libyan National Army, LNA/UAE Military/Egyptian Military
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Incident Date

29 December 2019

Incident Code

LC265

Location

ابي الاشهر, Bilash'har, Tarabulus, Libya
According to Libya Al Ahrar, a student at the Freedom Martyrs School in Abi Al-Shahr area in Tajura was injured in a bombardment by Haftar that targeted a farm adjacent to the school. No further details are available at the moment.

Summary

Published
29 December 2019
Strike Type
Artillery
Civilians reported injured
1
Military Actor
Libyan National Army
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Incident Date

28–29 December, 2019

Incident Code

USSOM263

Location

Vicinity of Caliyoow Barrow, Lower Shabelle, Somalia
In apparent retaliatory strikes against al Al Shabaab for a mass casualty bombing in Mogadishu a day earlier, the United States said that it had conducted three strikes against al Shbaab commanders, killing four people in total. This entry relates to one strike in the vicinity of Caliyoow Barrow in Lower Shabelle. it later emerged…

Summary

Published
28 December 2019
Strike Type
Airstrike
Military actors reported killed
2
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date

28 December 2019

Incident Code

RS4295

Location

محمبل, Mhambel, Idlib, Syria
Local sources reported that at least three civilians were wounded as a result of Russian forces or Syrian regime forces artillery and missile attack on Mhambel in Idlib, Syria on December 28th, 2019. The Syrian Network for Human Rights said that a cluster missile fell near Al Kabir mosque in Mhambel town in the western…

Summary

Published
28 December 2019
Strike Type
Artillery
Civilians reported injured
3
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

28 December 2019

Incident Code

RS4296

Location

بلدات متعددة, Several towns, Idlib, Syria
Russian warplanes launched substantial attacks upon various villages outside of Idlib on December 28th causing numerous civilian casualties. Shaam News, reporting on December 29th, stated that civilian casualties resulted from Russian airstrikes upon many villages, including Mhambel and Sarja.  No names, ages, or other pertinent information was released. The air raids were part of a…

Summary

Published
28 December 2019
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Education
Civilians reported injured
2–5
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

28 December 2019

Incident Code

RS4297

Location

معرة النعمان, Maarat Numan, Idlib, Syria
At least two civilians were killed and up to four civilians were wounded in initial reports about an alleged Russian or Syrian regime bombing raid upon the village of Maarat Numan on December 28th, 2019. Local sources reported that Russian helicopters dropped barrel bombs, and there were early reports of four wounded civilians, the death…

Summary

Published
30 December 2019
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Residential
Civilians reported killed
2–3
Civilians reported injured
2–4
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

28 December 2019

Incident Code

YS082

Location

عون الدادات, Aoun Al Dadat, Aleppo, Syria
Local sources reported that a sniper on a checkpoint belonging to SDF/YPG shot dead a civilian in Aoun al Dadat village in Manbej, Aleppo on December 28th, 2019. Shaam Netowk reported that "Mohamed Sheikho Al-Hamloush, known as 'Abu Al-Miz', from Aoun Al-Dadat village, was transporting a passenger by his motorcycle to the village separating between …

Summary

Published
28 December 2019
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
1
Military Actor
YPG
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Incident Date

27 December 2019

Incident Code

LC262

Location

عين زارة, Ain Zara, Tarabulus, Libya
One civilian was reported killed and three others injured, following suspected LNA shelling of the Ain Zara area of Tripoli. A video posted to Facebook by Libya al Ahrar - presently the sole source for this event - featured a reporter who stated that "one civilian was killed and three others injured because of Haftar…

Summary

Published
27 December 2019
Strike Type
Airstrike and/or Artillery
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
3
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Libyan National Army, LNA/UAE Military/Egyptian Military
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Incident Date

27–28 December, 2019

Incident Code

LC263

Location

طرابلس‎: مشروع الهضبة, Tripoli: Hadaba project, Tarabulus, Libya
Up to six civilians including children were injured and one killed after the Tripoli neighbourhood of the Hadaba project was shelled, most likely by LNA forces. Several shells appear to have caused civilian harm, including one which struck the home of Omar Al-Ayat and one which fell outside a nearby mosque. Burkan al Ghadab reported…

Summary

Published
27 December 2019
Strike Type
Airstrike and/or Artillery
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
5–6
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Libyan National Army
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Incident Date

26 December 2019

Incident Code

LC261

Location

صيدلية أوكسجين, Oxygen Pharmacy O2, Al Zawiyah, Libya
At least two civilians were killed and eight injured after LNA and/or UAE aircraft hit a pharmacy, a car and other civilian targets in Zawiya. The target of the LNA strikes was initially assumed to be the headquarters of the GNA's Al Farouq battalion. However reports soon made clear that multiple nearby civilian objects had…

Summary

Published
26 December 2019
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
2
Civilians reported injured
8
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Libyan National Army, LNA/UAE Military/Egyptian Military
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Incident Date

25 December 2019

Incident Code

CS1942

Location

البوكمال, Al Bukamal, Deir Ezzor, Syria
Around ten people were killed and an unknown number wounded in alleged Coalition artillery strikes that reportedly targeted Iranian and Lebanese militias in the city of Al Bukamal, Deir Ezzor governorate, on December 25th, 2019, according to local sources. It is unclear if those killed were civilians or belligerents. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights…

Summary

Published
25 December 2019
Strike Type
Artillery
Civilians reported killed
0–3
Civilians reported injured
0–2
Military actors reported killed
7–10
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

25 December 2019

Incident Code

LC260

Location

قصر بن غشير, Qasr Bin Gashir, Tarabulus, Libya
According to local sources, a teenage boy named as Mahmoud Hussein Rabah Al-Jorni was killed after what was described as a 'random shell' hit the family farm at Qaser Bin Ghashir. His death was initially reported by a relative, Mohammed Hasan al-Jurni. Facebook site Tk Yahrouq Kl shy first noted that "Several shells landed in…

Summary

Published
25 December 2019
Strike Type
Artillery
Civilians reported killed
1
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Government of National Accord, Libyan National Army
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Incident Date

24 December 2019

Incident Code

RS4292

Location

جوباس, Joubas, Idlib, Syria
Between 10 and 12 civilians, including at least five children and two women, were reported killed and up to seven others, including two children and two women, injured in Joubas, Idlib in Syria on December 24th, 2019 when Russian warplanes attacked a school building that was used as a shelter for displaced people in the…

Summary

Published
24 December 2019
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
IDP or Refugee Camp, Education
Civilians reported killed
10–12
Civilians reported injured
5–7
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

24 December 2019

Incident Code

RS4293

Location

كفروما, Kafrouma, Idlib, Syria
At least one person died in an alleged Russian or regime airstrike on Kafrouma in Idlib on December 24, 2019, according to local media. Local sources were conflicted as to whether the victims were civilians or militants. Sources reported that the Russian strikes targeted members of the Ahrar al-Sham movement. According to the Step News…

Summary

Published
24 December 2019
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
0–1
Military actors reported killed
2–3
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

24 December 2019

Incident Code

RS4294

Location

سراقب, Saraqeb, Idlib, Syria
An elderly woman was reported injured along with at least one other civilian after an alleged Russian forces or Syrian regime airstrike on Saraqeb in Idlib, Syria on December 24th 2019, according to local sources. The Syrian Network for Human Rights reported: ""An elderly woman was wounded in a bombing by the  Syrian regime on…

Summary

Published
24 December 2019
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported injured
1–2
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

24 December 2019

Incident Code

LC259

Location

منطقة بـئر الأسطى ميـلاد, Vicinity of Bi’r Al Austa Milad road, Tarabulus, Libya
On Tuesday, December 24, 2019, drone or artillery strikes, reportedly conducted by the Libyan National Army or the United Arab Emirates in the vicinity of Bi’r Al Austa Milad road, Tajoura, Libya, killed up to four civilians including two women and injured 12 other non-combatants according to local reports. A vegetable market and civilian cars…

Summary

Published
24 December 2019
Strike Type
Airstrike (Drone Strike), Airstrike and/or Artillery
Infrastructure
Civilians reported killed
3–4
Civilians reported injured
12
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Libyan National Army, LNA/UAE Military/Egyptian Military
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Incident Date

24 December 2019

Incident Code

TS403

Location

زونار, Zunnar, Raqqa, Syria
One civilian was reported injured in alleged Turkish or Turkish-backed shelling on Zunnar village of Ain Issa, Raqqa on December 24th, 2019 according to local sources. ANHA reported that the Turkish attack directly targeted civilian areas. Other sources blamed Turkish backed mercenaries. @Karl_hakon reported that "Turkish-backed mercenaries targeted civilian areas in the Ain Issa countryside…

Summary

Published
24 December 2019
Strike Type
Artillery
Civilians reported injured
1
Military Actor
Turkish Military
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