Civilian Casualties

(2 women1 man)

LOCATION

عدن, Aden, Yemen

A single source, Press TV, reported that a US drone killed five “people” traveling in a vehicle in Aden on August 4, 2012. However, the same source referred to the strike as occurring in “eastern Yemen” while Aden is located in western Yemen. Another strike did occur in eastern Yemen on the same date (USYEM116-B),

Summary

Airstrike, Drone Strike

0 – 5

US Forces

Belligerents reported killed

Province/governorate

0–5

سرمين, Sarmin, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

On April 9th, 2023, in the town off Sarmin, east of Idlib, multiple sources allege artillery fire from Syrian and/or Russian forces killed 15 year old boy Ibrahim Musab Al Haj Musa and injured between three to four others, including a six year old child named Malak Khalaf, a three year old named Abdul Salam

Summary

IDP or refugee camp

3–4

17 تموز, Mosul, 17 July, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

Local sources said that three named family members were killed and their daughter injured on the morning of April 8th, after an airstrike reportedly struck their house in West Mosul. They also reported a “number of wounded”. Yaqein said a “wrong” Coalition airstrike killed three and wounded two of the same family in West Mosul

Summary

(1 woman2 men)

US-led Coalition, Unknown

3 named, 1 familiy identified

كفرعمة, Kafer Amme, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

On Monday, July 10th 2023, an alleged artillery shelling by Syrian regime forces and Russian armed forces hit the village of Kafarama (or Kafr Amma), west of Aleppo, northwest Syria, injuring one civilian. Sources including @SyriaCivilDefe, @HalabTodayTV twitter accounts, and Orient News reported one civilian, a woman, being injured by the airstrike on the village.

Summary

Unknown

Russian Military, Syrian Regime

Salagle, Middle Juba, Somalia

LOCATION

Two civilian women were killed and two children were injured by alleged Kenyan or United Arab Emirates or US airstrikes on Salagle in Middle Jubba on June 16, 2023. The Horn Observer reported that two civilians, a mother and her child, were killed and two other children sustained injuries from airstrikes on Salagle. A tweet

Summary

Airstrike, Drone Strike

(2 women)

US Forces, United Arab Emirates Military, Kenyan Military Forces

بنجوين, Penjwin district, Sulaymaniyah, Iraq

LOCATION

On August 11, 2023, three civilians, including at least one woman (who may have been under 18), were reportedly killed after being struck by a Turkish drone in the Penjwin district of Sulaymaniyah governorate. According to media coverage of this event, the victims were killed while driving towards the Iranian border. In its coverage of this

Summary

Airstrike, Drone Strike

(1 child1 woman1 man)

Turkish Military

3 named, 1 familiy identified

المدينة القديمة, Mosul, Old City, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

Local sources reported that heavy airstrikes hit several neighbourhoods in Old Mosul on Tuesday, leading to ‘dozens of civilians killed and injured.’ One report suggested helicopters may have participated, though presently no further details are known. The Coalition later admitted it had killed one civilian in the area that day – see CI649.

Summary

12 – 24

12–24

US-led Coalition, Iraq Government Forces

قرية الصبحة, Al-Sabha Village, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

On 2 September 2023, a civilian was reportedly injured by a mortar shell from the Syrian Democratic Forces in the village of Al-Sabha in the Eastern Deir Ezzor countryside. The majority of the sources that reported on the incident stated that “A civilian from the village of Al-Sabha was injured as a result of the

Summary

Unknown

1–4

YPG

مزرعة ميسلون, Maysaloun Farms, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

Three civilians including one child died and two others were injured in an alleged Coalition airstrike on Maysalon, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. No further details are currently available.

Summary

الخالدية, Khalidiya village, Ain Essa countryside, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

On Saturday, October 7th, 2023, an alleged Turkish artillery shelling in Khalidiya village, located in the Ain Essa countryside, Syria, reportedly killed an elderly woman and injured at least one other person, her husband. Numerous sources, such as Facebook page Ehlê Qamişlo, have named the deceased woman as Amsha Muhammad Hilal Al-Baqer, aged 65, and her

Summary

(1 woman)

1–3

2 named, 1 familiy identified

الصحة, Mosul, Saha, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

Local press sources and an Iraqi activist said that fifteen civilians died and five were injured after airstrikes hit a house in Saha (Health) neighborhood in West Mosul. Mohammed Fadel al-Hayali, a civilian activist, told TRT Arabic TV: “An airstrike targeted a house in Saha neighbourhood at the western district of Mosul yesterday evening, killing

Summary

15 – 17

(2 children6 women1 man)

4–5

US-led Coalition, Unknown

1 named

الشجاعي, Al Shujaiya, Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On October 15th an alleged Israeli airstrike killed four civilians identified as Sami Al Khudari (60 years old), his son Nour Al Khudari (19 years old), Hamad Al Khudari, and Mujahed al Khudari and injured many others while they were at their home on Al Nizar street, Al Shujaiya neighborhood in east Gaza. Reports referenced Nour

Summary

(4 men)

5–10

Impact

4 named, 1 familiy identified

Neighbourhood/area

الموصل: غرب, Mosul, Meshrfa, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

A field investigation by Amnesty International found that a number of civilians were injured or possibly killed in an air or ground attack on the 60th Street area of Msherfa in West Mosul. The following Amnesty field report citing an eyewitness was shared with Airwars: “My family and I were staying at my aunt’s house

Summary

0 – 2

US-led Coalition, Iraq Government Forces

الشابورة, Al Shaboura, Rafah, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On October 7, 2023, an alleged Israeli airstrike which struck the home of the Abu Qouta family reportedly killed up to 27 civilians, including up to 19 members of the Abu Qouta family and at least five neighbors, and up to eight children and at least one woman, in addition to injuring 25 others. The

Summary

IDP or refugee camp, Residential building

(5–8 children1–2 women7 men)

19 – 27

27 named, 1 familiy identified

Neighbourhood/area

الحي الثاني, Tabaqah, al Thani, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

One woman was killed and two men were reportedly wounded in airstrikes “likely” carried out by the Coalition in Al Thani neighbourhood of Al Tabaqa city, a local source told Smart News Agency. A medical source told the agency that the victims were taken to medical checkpoints in the area. Baladi also reported that there

Summary

(1 woman)

الزيتون, Al Zeitoun, Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

Late in the evening on October 10th or the early October 11th 2023, alleged Israeli airstrikes hit the Ashour family home in the Al-Zaytoun neighbourhood, next to Shafut, of Gaza City and killed four civilians: brothers Said Ashour and Abdulrahman Nasser Ashour, and father and son Robin Ashour (also Rubin) and Ahmed Ashour. Hosam Azzam, a resident

Summary

(4 men)

4 named, 1 familiy identified

Neighbourhood/area

تل بطنان, Tal Btan, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

Around five civilians were reportedly killed in alleged Turkish airstrikes near Tal Btan, according to sources on the ground. LCCSY wrote: “Eight dead in Aleppo, most of them killed by the Turkish jets during their escape from Alban to Tal Btan village.” There is currently no more information available.

Summary

Turkish Military

عكيرشي, `Ukayrishah, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

Between 12 and 30 civilians – mostly women – were killed when alleged Coalition airstrikes hit al A’Keirshi village in the countryside of Raqqa, according to local media. The victims were reportedly farm workers who were travelling in three cars to their place of work when they were struck by the air raid. Raqqa is

Summary

12 – 30

(11–22 women2 men)

9–12

11 named, 1 familiy identified

بيت لاهيا, Beit Lahia, North Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

During the evening of Thursday October 12th 2023, local news and social media reported that the Alyan family house in Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip was bombed in an alleged attack of Israeli airplanes, resulting in a number of killed and injured civilians. Facebook user Mohmd Aljmmal reported that according to the local

Summary

بزاعة , Beza’a city, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

Up to nine civilians including two children from the same family died in an airstrike on Beza’a city, according to local media – though sources were conflicted as to whether this was the work of Turkey or the US-led Coalition. Aleppo Media Center reported that “the child Hamdo al Bakir and an entire family made up

Summary

7 – 9

(2 children3 men)

2–6

US-led Coalition, Turkish Military

5 named

مخيم البريج, Bureij camp, Deir Al Balah, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

Four people, including a woman and a child, were killed and at least eight others were injured after an alleged Israeli airstrike on the al-Durra residence in the Burejj camp at dawn on October 13th, 2023. 11-year-old Aryam al-Durra was killed with her father, Iyad al-Durra. Iyad’s brother Nael al-Durra was also killed, along with

Summary

IDP or refugee camp, Residential building

(1 child1 woman2 men)

12 named, 1 familiy identified

Town

بزينة, Bazeena, Damascus, Syria

LOCATION

A seven year old girl and two civilian adults were killed and a dozen injured in an airstrike on the town of Bazeena – though reports were conflicted as to whether the attack was the work of Russia or the Assad regime. The dead child was named as Ghazal Al Tokhi [pictured below], with one

Summary

Unknown, Syrian Regime

1 named

رقة السمرة, Raqqa al Samra, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

One woman died in an alleged Coalition airstrike on Al Raqqa al Samra on the eastern outskirts of Raqqa city, according to local sources.

Summary

(1 woman)

عبسان الكبيرة, Abasan Al Kabira, Khan Younis, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

At dawn on Thursday, October 19th 2023, an alleged Israeli airstrike on the Abu Daqqa family house located in the town of Abasan al-Kabira in the Khan Yunis governorate in the Gaza Strip killed an eight-year old boy named Hamza Bashar Jamil (Abu Daqqa). Shehab Agency initially reported about the serious injury of Hamza Jamil,

Summary

1 named

Town

الرهجان, Al Rahjan, Hama, Syria

LOCATION

The VDC lists four unidentified civilian males as having been killed by “Russian air force shelling” at Al Rahjan in Hama. Other sourcing is weak, with the Syrian state news agency Sana attributing the attack to Assad regime aircraft, while Al Watan mentions only ‘aircraft.’

Summary

Unknown, Syrian Regime, Syrian Regime

حي الزنجيلي, Mosul, Zanjili, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

In an incident not previously tracked by Airwars, on September 1st 2017 the Coalition said it had concluded an assessment on social media claims of civilian harm “near Mosul, Iraq”. According to the Coalition report, “11. May 30, 2017, near Mosul, Iraq, via social media report: The report contains insufficient information of the time, location

Summary

Unknown

مخيم النصيرات, Nuseirat camp, Deir Al Balah, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On the afternoon of October 16th, a number of people, including a child, were reportedly killed and injured as a result of an alleged Israeli airstrike, which hit the house of the Abu Hassanein family in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. Local sources have only specified the death of the child,

Summary

IDP or refugee camp, Residential building

Known belligerent

Exact location (via Airwars)

كفر حمرة, Kafr Hamra, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

Four civilians died in an airstrike on Kafr Hamra, according to local sources – though reports were conflicted as to whether Russia or the Syrian regime were to blame. The Shaam News Network, reported that 21 civilians died in Aleppo “in the first day of Ramadan in regime and Russian bombing“. It put the death

Summary

3 – 4

(2 men)

8–10

Russian Military, Syrian Regime

3 named