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Incident Date

24 March 2016

Incident Code

CS193

Location

Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria
الرقة‎
One civilian was reported killed in the Al Dar’iya area of central Raqaa, in an alleged Coalition strike. According to Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered, “International coalition planes yesterday targeted a weapons depot belonging to Daesh near Hod al Furat garage in Al Dar’iya area in the city centre of Raqqa which led to its total…

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24 March 2016
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Incident Date

24 March 2016

Incident Code

CI206

Location

Qayyarah, Nineveh, Iraq
القيارة
In an incident not previously tracked by Airwars, CENTCOM later confirmed the death of a civilian in an airstrike near Qayyarah. Their November 2016 report noted: "near Qayyarah, Iraq, during a strike against an ISIL target, it is assessed that one civilian was killed.” The event occurred near the beginning of operations to liberate Qayyarah…

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24 March 2016
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Incident Date

23 March 2016

Incident Code

CI205

Location

Hajj Ali, Nineveh, Iraq
The Coalition announced on April 30th 2017 that it had concluded an assessment on an NGO’s claims of civilian harm “near Hajj Ali, Iraq”. It is unknown to Airwars which NGO it is referred to. According to the Coalition report, “1. March 23, 2016, near Hajj Ali, Iraq, via NGO report: No Coalition strikes were…

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23 March 2016
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Incident Date

23 March 2016

Incident Code

RS0744

Location

Palmyra, Homs, Syria
تدمر
One young adult male civilian died in an airstrike on Palmyra according to local sources, though reports are conflicted as to whether this was the work of Russia or the Assad regime. Qasioun reported: Palmyra City was the target this morning of intensive raids by Russian aviation, amounting to about 35 strikes, in which aircraft…

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23 March 2016
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Incident Date

23 March 2016

Incident Code

RS0745

Location

Deir ez-Zor, Deir Ezzor, Syria
دير الزور
Ten civilians including four children died in airstrikes on Deir ez-Zor, according to local sources. Most reports blame the Assad regime. Shaam News said the strikes had been carried out by “Syrian and Russian planes”. It reported 20 injured non-combatants in addition to the ten killed. However, both Step News Agency and Baladi said that…

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23 March 2016
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Incident Date

23 March 2016

Incident Code

RS0746

Location

Jisreen, Damascus, Syria
جسرين
Two civilians died in an airstrike on Hasreen, eastern Ghouta, according to local sources – though reports are conflicted as to whether Russia or the Assad regime were responsible. According to the Shaam News Network, the raids were “launched by a Russian Sikhoi 24“. The network reported: “Activists said the shelling today focused on the…

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23 March 2016
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Incident Date

22 March 2016

Incident Code

CI204

Location

Mosul, University of Mosul residencies, Nineveh, Iraq
In a fresh day of reported Coalition airstrikes on Mosul University, 11 people, including three university professors and their families were killed and other civilians wounded, after Dutch airstrikes, as part of the US-led Coalition, hit academic residences on March 22, 2016. Up to 15 Daesh fighters also reportedly died. Heavy Coalition activity above the…

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22 March 2016
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Incident Date

19 March 2016

Incident Code

CS192

Location

Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria
الرقة‎
In a second day of airstrikes on Raqqa, 43 civilians were reported killed and 60 injured – though sources are conflicted as to whether this was the work of Russia or the Assad regime – with one report suggesting this may be a Coalition incident. The Daesh agency Al A’maq said there had been nine…

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19 March 2016
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Incident Date

19 March 2016

Incident Code

CI203a

Location

Qayarrah, Nineveh, Iraq
القيارة
According to a field investigation conducted by reporters Azmah Khan and Anand Gopal for the New York Times, seven civilian were killed and one injured by a Coalition airstrike on a railway station in Qayyarah. The two journalists provided Airwars with the following: “According to our reporting, the following occurred: When ISIS left a mortar…

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19 March 2016
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Incident Date

19 March 2016

Incident Code

CI203

Location

Mosul, cultural group area, Nineveh, Iraq
الثقافية
At least 15 civilians were claimed killed alongside 40 or more Daesh fighters, in an alleged Coalition air raid on Mosul. NRN News first flashed at around noon local time “the fall of dozens of civilians by bombings on both sides of the city. More soon.” In a later bulletin, the news agency said the…

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19 March 2016
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Incident Date

19 March 2016

Incident Codes

CS192 RS0743

Location

Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria
الرقة‎
In a second day of airstrikes on Raqqa, 43 civilians were reported killed and 60 injured – though sources are conflicted as to whether this was the work of Russia or the Assad regime – with one report suggesting this may be a Coalition incident. The Daesh agency Al A’maq said there had been nine…

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19 March 2016
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Incident Date

19 March 2016

Incident Code

RS0742

Location

Maskanah, Aleppo, Syria
مسكنة
According to two sources – Syria_Omar and Syrian Press Center – two power station workers died in a strike on plant in Maskanah. Syria_Omar reported: “Warplanes launched 12 air strikes on the city of Maskaneh on Saturday, resulting in the deaths of workers of the power plant in the city after the station targeted by…

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19 March 2016
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Incident Date

18 March 2016

Incident Code

CI202

Location

Hawijah, Kirkuk, Iraq
الحويجة
Up to 41 civilians were allegedly killed and 53 injured in an airstrike on Hawijah which was said to have struck the city’s main market and hospital. The Daesh-linked Al A’amaq Agency initially reported the “Killing of four [civilians] and the wounding of 10 – most of them women and children – in an air…

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18 March 2016
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Incident Date

18 March 2016

Incident Codes

CS191 RS0741

Location

Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria
الرقة‎
Between 15 and 20 civilians including up to eight children and five women died in airstrikes on Ar Raqqah, according to multiple local sources – though reports were conflicted as to whether this was the work of Russia or the Assad regime – with one source suggesting the warplanes responsible may have belonged to the…

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18 March 2016
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Incident Date

18 March 2016

Incident Code

RS0740

Location

Talbisah, Homs, Syria
تلبيسة
One civilian died in Talbisah while trying to defuse a Russian cluster bomb, according to multiple sources. Other reports said that both Russian strikes and regime artillery shelling killed a number of other civilians, though didn’t specify numbers. According to the Syrian Network for Human Rights, Houssien Abdul Kareem Al Deheik, a 38-year-old trainer in…

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18 March 2016
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Incident Date

18 March 2016

Incident Code

LQ027

Location

Benghazi, Benghazi, Libya
بنغازي‎
In a separate incident to LC027, the LNA reported that it targeted ‘terrorist operation rooms’ with MiG-21s and MiG-23s in Qawarsheh. It also said it sunk two rafts 150 West of Benghazi at 22:45 and a vessel at 03:25. At 04:55 another vessel was reportedly targeted and destroyed.

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18 March 2016
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Incident Date

18 March 2016

Incident Code

LC028

Location

Benghazi Shoreline, Benghazi, Libya
شواطئ بنغازي
The LNA targeted a marine trailer reportedly carrying 10 tanks, 3 containers of ammunition and a number of vehicles off the shores of Benghazi at around 03:00 according to its Facebook page. In an apparent maritime version of a double tap strike, the LNA further reported that other boats then tried to save the people…

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Published
18 March 2016
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Incident Date

17 March 2016

Incident Code

RS0739

Location

Mahimideh, Deir Ezzor, Syria
محيميدة
One child, Hozaifa Hasan al Enaizan, from the village of Tabya Shameih was killed in an alleged Russian airstrike on Mahimideh, Deir ez-Zour, according to the Violations Documentation Center. Deir Ezzor is Being Slaughtered Silently reported that he died after the explosion of a cluster bomb left from a previous Russian bombing. Four other sources…

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17 March 2016
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Incident Date

15 March 2016

Incident Code

LC027

Location

Al-Hawary, Benghazi, Libya
الهواري
The LNA posted a video of a helicopter squadron targeting alleged terrorists. The video depicts people caught in explosions, and vehicles and buildings suffering damage. However the combatant status of those hit is unclear.

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15 March 2016
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Incident Date

15 March 2016

Incident Code

CI201

Location

Mosul, Bab Laksh, Nineveh, Iraq
باب لكش
Local sources said at least four and as many as 13 civilians were killed and 25 injured including children and women after alliance jets struck residential apartments used by displaced people in the Alaymen district of eastern Mosul. The National Iraqi News Agency reported: “residents said that international coalition aircraft bombed a residential compound belonging…

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15 March 2016
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Incident Date

14 March 2016

Incident Code

TS001

Location

Jakka, Aleppo, Syria
جكة
A single source, the Daesh-linked propaganda outlet Al A’amaq Media, reported an alleged ‘friendly fire’ event in the village of al Jakka: “An American plane carries out a raid by mistake on a position for the armed opposition on the outskirts of the village of Jakka in the northern Aleppo countryside, leading to deaths in…

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14 March 2016
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Incident Date

13 March 2016

Incident Code

RS0736

Location

As Sukhnah, Homs, Syria
السخنة
Between seven and eight civilians including three children and one or two women died in alleged Russian airstrikes on Sukhna, according to local sources. Shaam News reported that eight civilians including were killed and more than 10 others injured on alleged Russian raids on Sukhna. SNN added: “The co-ordinating city of Palmyra said that in…

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13 March 2016
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Incident Date

13 March 2016

Incident Code

RS0737

Location

Douma, Damascus, Syria
دوما
At least one child was killed in Douma according to local sources – though reports are conflicted as to whether this was a Russian airstrike or the result of regime artillery. Shaam News, reported: “Russian planes carried out raids on Douma neighbourhoods which was preceeded by artillery shelling. One civilian was killed and others were…

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13 March 2016
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Incident Date

13 March 2016

Incident Code

RS0735

Location

Salheen (Aleppo), Aleppo, Syria
حي الصالحين
Between five and ten civilians died and 10 more were injured in an airstrike on Al Salheen which violated a ceasefire, according to local sources – though reports are conflicted as to whether this was the work of Russia or the regime. Janobia reported that Russian raids on Al Salheen killed 10 civilians and wounded…

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Published
13 March 2016
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Incident Date

13 March 2016

Incident Code

RS0734

Location

Kafr Nabil, Idlib, Syria
كفرنبل‎
One adult male civilian may have died in an airstrike on Kafr Nabil, according to two local sources. The VDC listed Jameel al Ekel as a victim of a Russian strike but says the victim is from Kafr Nabil, and doesn’t state where he was killed. Fresh News reports the same victim killed  “in warplane…

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Published
13 March 2016
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Incident Date

13 March 2016

Incident Codes

CS190 RS0738

Location

Abu Qalqal, Aleppo, Syria
أبو قلقل
Two civilians were reported killed in an airstrike on the town of Abu Kalkal. Opinion was split as to whether the attack was Russian, Coalition or Syrian regime in origin. Daesh-linked Al A’amaq Media, the Syrian Observatory, the Syrian Network, the Syrian Human Rights Committee, Shaam News and al Hall Media all said the attack…

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Published
13 March 2016
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Incident Date

12 March 2016

Incident Code

RS0732

Location

Palmyra, Homs, Syria
تدمر
The Violations Documentation Center listed one unidentified woman as a victim of an alleged Russian airstrikes on Palmyra. No further details are currently available.  

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Published
12 March 2016
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Incident Date

12 March 2016

Incident Code

RS0733

Location

Maadi, Aleppo, Syria
ماضي
Two civilians including one woman died in an alleged Russian airstrike on Maadi, Aleppo, according to local sources. Ana Press reported that a Russian strike “resulted in casualties and injuries among civilians and massive destruction of the residential buildings”. The victims were also named by Syrian Human Rights Committee and other sources.  

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12 March 2016
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Incident Date

12 March 2016

Incident Code

CS189

Location

Al Mashlab, Raqqa, Syria
According to Al A’amaq Media – linked to Daesh – “A child and his father were killed in a raid by an unmanned American plane on the outskirts of Raqqa city.” No other sources in the city reported civilian casualties. However Raqqa is Being Slaughtered did note that “An unmanned plane targets a Daesh pickup…

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Published
12 March 2016
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Incident Date

11 March 2016

Incident Code

RS0725

Location

Kafr Naha, Aleppo, Syria
كفر ناها
A woman and her teenage son died in an alleged Russian airstrike on Kafr Naha, according to local sources. The victims were named by Halab News – who blamed Russia – as Anas Ahmad Khatib and Fatima Khatib. Two additional sources, Allairamon Today and Anas Naif, also named them and said that Russia was responsible…

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11 March 2016
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