Civilian Casualties

1 – 2

(2 men)

3–4

الرقة‎, Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

Ten named civilians were reported killed in afternoon airstrikes on the Al Mashlab neighbourhood of Raqqa. According to the local Civil Defence, “four civilians were martyred due to successive airstrikes by coalition warplanes on Mashlab neighbourhood according to local source.” The Syrian Observatory reported 10 civilian deaths from airstrikes in Al Mashlab and elsewhere in

Summary

(2 women)

US-led Coalition, Syrian Regime

14 named, 4 families identified

الزهراء , Al Zahra village, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

On November 27, 2016, according to the Shaam News Network amongst other local sources, two people were reportedly killed and dozens wounded when an aerial bombing resulted in “several successive explosions” hitting a residential area the town of Zahra, located in the northern countryside of Aleppo, in northwestern Syria. Where sources identified a belligerent, most

Summary

2–12

Russian Military, Syrian Regime

أم الخير, Umm Al Khair, Al Hassakah, Syria

LOCATION

At least one civilian, a woman, was injured in alleged Turkish bombardment of the village of Umm Al 36.654235&lon=40.372868Khair in the countryside of Tal Tamr district on February 27, 2022. According to Hawar News, a woman was injured as a result of Turkish forces bombing of the countryside of Tal Tamr district. Turkish forces bombed

Summary

Airstrike and/or Artillery

الفلوجة‎, Fallujah, Al Anbar, Iraq

LOCATION

Local sources claimed that families of ISIS members and other civilians were killed or wounded after Iraqi government and Coalition aircraft targeted Daesh convoys fleeing Fallujah to Ramadi Island. According to the US military blog War Is Boring, Between 9:00 and 10:00 at night on June 28, Iraqi military intelligence detected the movement of numerous

Summary

(1 child)

US-led Coalition, Iraq Government Forces

محطة الوقود, Qamishlo, Al Hassakah, Syria

LOCATION

On Sunday, December 24th, 2023, an alleged airstrike on the city of Qamishlo in Al-Hassakah Governorate in northeastern Syria reportedly perpetrated by the Turkish military killed a renowned 39-year-old Kurdish cinematographer, Mansour Karimian. Some sources provided a different date and place of his death. According to the New York Kurdish Cultural Center, Mansour was killed

Summary

(1 man)

البوبدران, Al Boubadran, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

An alleged Coalition airstrike targeted a residential area and reportedly killed between eight and 23 civilians, in what local sources described as “a massacre”. According to Sana News, 23 civilians died as a result of the airstrike. Step News and Euphrates Post reported that a total of 20 people died. Step added that 17 belonged

Summary

(8–14 children3–4 women1 man)

8 – 23

27 named, 1 familiy identified

منبج, Manbij, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

In a new reported Coalition civilian casualty event in Manbij on July 17th, five civilians reportedly died when airstrikes hit the city. All sources were agreed that the wife and two adult children of Al Haj Bahri al Darwish died. On March 10, 2022 in the CJTF-OIR Civilian Casualty Report, the Coalition reported this incident

Summary

(2 children2 women2 men)

6 named, 1 familiy identified

كوباني, Kobani, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

One civilian was injured in alleged Turkish strikes on Al-Shaheed Kawa neighborhood south of the city of Kobani on April 22, 2022. North Press Agency reported that “A shell landed on houses in the Al-Shaheed Kawa neighborhood, south of the city. As a result, Farhad Muhammad Hassan (28 years) was wounded with shrapnel in the

Summary

Airstrike and/or Artillery

وادي حسان, Wadi Hassan, Abyan, Yemen

LOCATION

An alleged US drone strike that took place on Wadi Hassan, south Zinjibar was reported to kill up to eight militants, with no civilian harm reported, on August 25th 2011. Eight suspected Al Qaeda-linked militants were killed in the airstrike. Multiple sources named a local Al Qaeda leader Abu Jaber al Sanaai as killed in

Summary

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)

US Forces

Suspected target

Belligerents reported killed

الثورة‎, Al-Thawrah (Tabaqah), Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

A reported drone strike at al Tabaqa “led to the martyrdom of Ibrahim Mahmoud al Said and the injury of a woman and two children,” according to Raqqa is Being Slaughtered. ISIL claimed the drone was American. VDC also named the victim, though said the aircraft as ‘unidentified’. The Syrian Network reported that “Fixed-wing international

Summary

شقرة, Shaqra, Abyan, Yemen

LOCATION

On September 21 2011, alleged US airstrikes on the town of Shaqra in Yemen’s southern Abyan province killed six to seven alleged AQAP militants. One outlet, AFP, stated that three alleged militants were injured in the strike. There are no reported cases of civilian harm. Aden Online and Long War Journal put the number of

Summary

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)

Known belligerent

US Forces

Suspected target

Geolocation

Town

Belligerents reported killed

6–7

Belligerents reported injured

حساجك, Hassadjek, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

At least 6 people were killed by airstrikes in the vicinity of Hassadjek village in Aleppo, though the circumstances were unclear. Initially, Voice of Kurdistan blamed the US-led Coalition for a strike occurring around 3am, which it said left six people dead and four wounded. The Russian Ministry of Defense said that Russian and Syrian government

Summary

US-led Coalition, Turkish Military

سهل عكار, Sahel Akkar, Tartus, Syria

LOCATION

At least two civilians, including a woman, were injured in alleged Israeli strikes on Hamidiya town on July 2, 2022. According to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), two civilians, including a woman, were injured and material damage was caused when Israeli missiles struck a number of poultry farms near Hamidiya town. A military source

Summary

Civilian infrastructure

Agriculture

Hezbollah, Iranian military

Israeli Military

Suspected targets

1 named

معرة مصرين, Maraat Misrin, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

Airstrikes variously blamed on the Coalition, on Russia and on the Assad regime targeted Fatah al Sham positions in Maarat Mislin, reportedly also killing four civilians and injuring at least two more. Initial reports – which said the town was struck three times – claimed either Russia or the Assad regime was responsible. The Syrian

Summary

2–10

US-led Coalition, Russian Military, Syrian Regime

الموزرة, Al Mozra, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

At least one civilian was injured in alleged Syrian regime or Russian shelling of the village of Al Mozra on July 22, 2022. The Syrian Civil Defense (@SyriaCivilDefe) tweeted that one civilian was wounded by artillery shelling by the Syrian regime and Russian forces on the village of Al Mozra. Various other sources, including the

Summary

1–2

Russian Military, Syrian Regime

تل عفر, Tall Afar, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

In an incident previously unknown to Airwars, the Coalition later confirmed the injury of one civilian near Tal Afar, Iraq. Their March 2017 civilian casualty report noted: “Nov. 14, 2016, near Tal Afar, Iraq, via self-report: During a strike on an ISIS checkpoint it was assessed that one civilian was unintentionally injured when the vehicle

Summary

Known belligerent

near Beledweyne, Hiiraan, Somalia

LOCATION

Four Al-Shabaab members were killed by three declared US airstrikes near Beledweyne on August 9, 2022. Somalia state media was the first to report on August 9th that “at the request of Somali Government, #US launched a strike in support of Somali National Army forces conducting counterterrorism operations in #Hiran region. There were no civilians

Summary

Belligerents reported killed

الرطبة, Al Rutba, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

Two unnamed civilians were reported killed by an alleged Coalition airstrike on al Rutba. According to Shaam News, “two civilians were martyred by the bombing of the international coalition aircraft on al Rutba village north of Raqqa.” Al Araby al Jadid also reported that “Civilians were killed and wounded in raids by the international coalition

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النيربية, Al Nayribiyah, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

An elderly woman was injured in alleged Turkish shelling of Al Nayribiyah village on August 19, 2022. Hawar News Agency reported that a woman and a child were injured as a result of Turkish forces bombing the villages of the countryside of Al-Shahba canton, including the villages of Karamel, Hassin, Ain Deqina and Baylouniyah, in

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النور والتأميم, Mosul, Noor and Ta’mim, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

Fifteen civilians were reported killed in fighting between ISIL and Iraqi forces. Said Noor Ahmed Halbusi, a doctor at a field hospital, told Anadolu he had received 15 bodies, including seven from one family. The civilians were killed in fighting between Iraqi forces and ISIL inside Mosul it said. Yaqein reported the same figures but

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باب الخير شمال راس العين , Bab Al kheer, northen Ras Al Ain, Al Hassakah, Syria

LOCATION

One civilian was reportedly killed by YPG forces in Bab Al kheer, northen Ras Al Ain. Suriye.u.a.d reported: “The gangs of #PYD_YPG_PKK assassinate the civilian Ismail Mohammed Mulla Matar on charges of dealing with the Syrian National Army in the village of Bab al-Khair east # Ras_alain”.

Summary

Counter-Terrorism Action (Ground)

(1 man)

دوميز, Mosul, Domiz, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

Five civilians were killed and four injured in the Domiz neighbourhood of Mosul, according to local media. A local source told Shafaaq news that an “unidentified warplane” opened fire from its on-board machine gun in the neighbourhood in south-east Mosul. The story was also reported by Nineveh Media Center, confirming the death of five and

Summary

US-led Coalition, Unknown

قرية سكينة, Medical center in the village of Sakina, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

At least eight people were killed, including four members of the medical staff at a hospital and four fighters of the Sinjar Resistance Units who were receiving treatment at a hospital, and four others were injured in alleged Turkish strikes on Al-Askiniyah Hospital in the village of Sakina in Sinjar district on August 17, 2021.

Summary

Turkish Military

Suspected target

Iraqi militias (PMUs)

8 named

قرية كلبيت ,ريف ادلب الشمالي,ادلب, Kalbid area, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

On September 27th 2022, between two and eight civilians were reportedly injured, including an elderly woman and a young man, when a Russian air strike hit a refugee camp in the Kalbid area, near the Bal al-Hawa border crossing in Syria. One Syrian Civil Defense volunteer, Hamza Al-Jassem, stated after being at the scene, “it

Summary

Airstrike and/or Artillery

Civilian infrastructure

IDP or refugee camp

2–8

Russian Military

الرقة‎, Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

A single source, Smart News, reported that “IS members were killed and civilians injured on Thursday, in aerial bombardment likely to be by the international coalition which targeted an IS vehicle east of the city of Raqqa, according to witnesses and medical sources.” No further details are currently available.

Summary

عقيبة, Aqiba, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

Two children were injured in alleged Turkish shelling of the village of Aqiba on October 27, 2022. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that two children were injured by Turkish shelling of civilian homes in the village of Aqiba. SOHR added that Turkish forces launched more than 15 artillery shells at the village

Summary

Turkish Military

2 named, 1 familiy identified

Geolocation

Village

سرمين, Sarmin, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

A confirmed US airstrike on a militant group reportedly linked to Al Qaeda also possibly killed or injured a number of civilians. According to Step News, 12 or more members of new group Hai’at Tahrir al Sham were killed in a raid targeting a meeting on the edges of Sarmin. As Step News explained, “Hai’at

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0 – 10

المصرف, Al Masraf, Al Hassakah, Syria

LOCATION

Three civilians were injured by alleged Turkish airstrikes that struck a civilian car in the village of Masraf on November 23, 2022. ANF reported that three people were injured when Turkish forces bombed a civilian car in the village of Masraf. The injured civilians were transferred to Qamishli Hospital for treatment. Both Hawar News and

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LOCATION

Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria

In an alleged civilian casualty event not previously tracked by Airwars, the Coalition announced in June 2017 that it had assessed a reported event near Raqqa as Non Credible, based on an assessment of video evidence. According to the June report “Feb. 14, 2017, near Raqqah, Syria, via social media report: After a review of

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