Civilian Casualties

0 – 33

أعزاز‎, A`zaz, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

According to reports a car which was carrying a family reportedly fleeing the violence in Syria was itself struck in an alleged Coalition airstrike, killing a young infant girl. Aisha Saleh Hassan al Hameedi was reported killed and her family injured when their car was struck near A’zaz, northern Aleppo. The family had been displaced

Summary

(1 child)

جبل نوفان, Jabal Novan, Al Bayda, Yemen

LOCATION

Multiple sources reported that US drone strikes targeted alleged AQAP militant positions in Novan, in the Qaifa area of Bayda governorate, on the evening of March 5th. There was one known report of possible civilian injury due to the strike. Local language Twitter sources reported that airstrikes targeted AQAP militants in the Novan mountains. The

Summary

الهول, Al Hawl, Al Hassakah, Syria

LOCATION

According to the Hassakah Youth Movement, “International Coalition planes have carried out several raids along the front lines south west of Al Hawl and targets in the village of Al Hazim. There are reports of the martyrdom of several civilians.“ Shaam News also reported that Coalition airstrikes in support of Kurdish forces “led to the

Summary

السوسة, Al Soussa, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

A house in the town of Al Soussa was struck by what sources described variously as a drone strike, airstrikes, artillery shelling, a rocket or a rocket-propelled grenade, killing two named brothers. Three of their other brothers were reported injured. Although one source implied the brothers were members of ISIS, this was not mentioned by

Summary

Airstrike and/or Artillery, Counter-Terrorism Action (Ground)

(2 men)

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions, Small arms and light weapons

Causes of injury / death

5 named, 1 familiy identified

وادي حجر, Wadi Hajar (Mosul), Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

Four children were injured in an alleged Coalition airstrike at Wadi Hajar to the south of Mosul, as a major military offensive to clear Nineveh of Daesh continued. According to NRN News, jets from the US-led alliance targeted the Daesh-held village which also led to civilian casualties. Responding to a request for clarification about possible

Summary

حاوي السوسة, Hawi Al Soussa, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

Local sources reported a “massacre” caused by “several missiles directed at the area Hawi Al-Soussa”. All sources blamed the Coalition. The alleged airstrike reportedly targeted a house inhabited by displaced persons, and killed a number of civilians, including women and children. No exact numbers were reported. Step News for example noted that Coalition missiles “targeted a

Summary

2 – 6

(2–3 children2–3 women)

البوكمال, Abu Kamal, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

At least four and up to ten members of one family were reported killed in alleged Coalition (or possibly Russian) night time strikes on Abu Kamal. According to the Deir Ezor Observatory there were three Coalition strikes on the city, all after midnight. And News of the Revolution reported that “International coalition planes last night

Summary

4 – 10

(1 woman3 men)

كوباني, Kobani, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

On the 5th July 2023, two ambulance crew members were reportedly injured by a Turkish artillery strike in southern Kobani, located in the North of Syria. 30 year-old Sozdar Othman and 25 year-old Muslim Nabi Oso were injured whilst traveling to the area of Newroz Square, which was hit by mortar shells, to evacuate possible

Summary

قرية القاهرة, Al Qahera Village, Hama, Syria

LOCATION

On July 3 2020, multiple sources report that a civilian named Fahd Suleiman Al-Basis was killed while picking fruit in the fields outside of Al Kahera by artillery shelling. While the vast majority of sources state that the shelling was carried out by the Assad regime, two state that the strikes were the result of

Summary

Russian Military, Syrian Regime

LOCATION

الموصل‎, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq

Four civilians were reported killed and 20 others wounded, and three members of Daesh died, after Coalition drone allegedly targeted an ISIS car, according to local sources. Nineveh Operations Command said that a “Hyundai” vehicle carrying three Daesh members was struck near a garage which sold chickens. The source said that “corpses littered the street“.

Summary

LOCATION

شبوة, Shabwa, Yemen

A Yemeni journalist was reportedly injured in an alleged drone strike while fleeing the site of attacks on an Al Qaeda vehicle on the 1st of June 2012 in Shabwa. Only one source, @narrabyee, reported this incident and further information remains unknown. The drone strike could have been a US or Yemeni strike as similar

Summary

US Forces, Yemeni Air Force

Province/governorate

المشفى الوطني في اعزاز, National hospital, A'zaaz, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

According to local sources, YPG/PKK targeted the National Hospital in the city of Azaz, north of Aleppo, with heavy artillery, on February 27th 2022. At least one civilian was wounded by the mortar shelling, including among the medical staff and one of the patients. Almost all sources attributed this attack to the YPG/PKK although Xeber

Summary

Airstrike and/or Artillery

1–2

YPG

الرمادي, Ramadi, Al Anbar, Iraq

LOCATION

The second sequence of Coalition and Iraqi strikes on a major vehicle convoy (see June 29th) again destroyed hundreds of vehicles. But civilian casualties were again feared. Iraqi Revolution reported in the early hours of June 30th the martyrdom and wounding of dozens of displaced families between Tarrah and Ramadi island, after the government and

Summary

US-led Coalition, Iraq Government Forces

الهشم, Hashim, Hadramaut, Yemen

LOCATION

Up to four civilians were killed when an alleged US drone reportedly fired eight missiles on a residential house with a winery on the ground floor in the village of Hashim in Hadramout. Sources were conflicted as to who was killed, with some reporting that the strike killed up to six Al Qaeda affiliates and

Summary

Agriculture

0 – 4

Known belligerent

Known target

Belligerents reported killed

0–6

Belligerents reported injured

تادف, Tadef, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

Two children were injured, with one reportedly dying of their injuries, when an unexploded cluster bomb from a previous bombing by the regime or Russian forces exploded in the town of Tadef on February 20, 2022. According to a tweet from @Almohrar1, two children were injured, one of whom had his hand amputated, due to

Summary

(1 child)

1–2

Planted explosives and unexploded ordnance (UXO)

Russian Military, Syrian Regime

حيمر لابدة, Haymar Labda, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

Four or more civilians were reported killed and others injured in what were described as heavy Coalition airstrikes on the village of Haymar Labda, as the battle to capture nearby Manbij intensified. ISIL’s media wing also issued a statement claiming “dead and injured and great destruction as a result of Coalition raids on the village

Summary

4 – 12

(3 children1–2 women)

14–40

4 named, 1 familiy identified

Named victims

وادي عبيدة, Wadi Abida, Ma'rib, Yemen

LOCATION

On January 19th 2013, before 11pm, the second of three alleged US drone strikes hit the Al Shabwan Wadi Abidah region of the Marib governorate, killing as many as three militants. Marib Press, Yemen Observer, and Enduring American World View corroborated that one of the reported militants killed was Ismaeel Bin Saeed Bin Jameel and

Summary

Belligerents reported killed

Neighbourhood/area

2–3

الميراب, al Mirab, Taiz, Yemen

LOCATION

Ali Alkhadr (14 years old) was injured by shrapnel from an alleged US air-strike on May 9th, 2011 near the village al-Mihrab. Al-Akhbar reported on the incident stating that the shrapnel tore Alkhadr´s jaw open when he was returning from a family visit in al-Mihrab village. It was reported that Doctors without Borders provided 1

Summary

خلوف الضعيف, Khalouf al Daeef, Al Hassakah, Syria

LOCATION

One adult civilian male named as Naji Ismail al Khalouf was reported killed in an alleged Coalition strike at the village of Khalouf al Daeef in Hassakah. A woman and child were also said to have been ‘seriously’ injured. According to the Syrian Observatory, “aircraft believed to be from the international Coalition carried out several

Summary

أحسم, Ihsim, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

On Tuesday morning, August 22nd 2023, three civilians were injured, including one child, as a result of artillery shelling allegedly by the Syrian regime forces and/or Russia on the town of Ihsim in Jabal Al-Zawiya, in the countryside of Idlib. Many local sources including @SyriaCivilDefe and SY-24 news also reported that a fire broke out

Summary

School

Russian Military, Syrian Regime

شيشة, Shisha, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

At least two civilians, including a child and a woman from the same family, were injured in alleged Turkish shelling of the villages of Gorik and Sheshi in western Gire Spi on June 1, 2022. Hawar News also reported that a woman and a child were injured in Turkish shelling of Sheshi village in the western

Summary

2 named, 1 familiy identified

Turkish Military

Named victims

Subdistrict

العريمة, Al `A'rīma, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

Fouad al Waisi, his wife and his daughter were all reported killed in a daytime Coalition strike near Manbij, in the village of al A’rima. The Coalition later reported that three civilians had been injured in the incident, without mentioning any civilians killed. On March 10, 2022 in the CJTF-OIR Civilian Casualty Report, the Coalition

Summary

(1 child1 woman)

3 named, 1 familiy identified

الجرذي, Al Jarthi, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

On August 30th 2023, an alleged shooting by SDF military patrols hit civilians leaving a mosque in the town of Al-Jarthi al-Sharqi in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, Syria, killing between one and three civilians and injuring between eight and 12 civilians, including two children. Sources report different accounts of the toll on civilians.

Summary

Religious Institution

1 – 3

8–12

Small arms and light weapons

راجو, Rajo, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

A man was killed when an alleged Turkish armored vehicle ran him over while he was walking in the town of Rajo of Afrin on June 20, 2022. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a civilian from Rajo district in Afrin was killed when a Turkish armored vehicle ran over him in

Summary

Causes of injury / death

داقوق, Duquq, Kirkuk, Iraq

LOCATION

At least 15 civilians – most or all women – were killed and 45 or more wounded by an airstrike which hit a Shi’ite shrine in Duquq, according to local sources. The Coalition later categorically denied that it was responsible for the event, with Iraqi aircraft most likely at fault. Local official Amir Huda Karam

Summary

(15 women)

45–50

US-led Coalition, Iraq Government Forces

البريج, Bureij, Deir Al Balah, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On October 10 at night or on October 11 at dawn, alleged Israeli strikes on civilian homes in Bureij refugee camp, near the Dabas Junction, in central Gaza, killed between 33 to 34 civilians, including at least 14 children*, eight women and 11 men. Among the victims, local sources documented five entire family units allegedly

Summary

IDP or refugee camp, Residential building

(14–15 children8 women11 men)

33 – 34

Impact

34 named, 8 families identified

Israeli Military

Named victims

Exact location (via Airwars)

شُقرة‎, Shaqra, Abyan, Yemen

LOCATION

A series of three alleged US bombing raids killed at least two militants and destroyed numerous vehicles in the in the Shakra area on May 10, 2022. There were no reports of civilian harm. According to almotamar.net, the Al Qaeda site in the Shakra area that was struck in the air strikes was used to

Summary

Belligerents reported killed

2–4

الكندي, Mosul, Kindi, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

According to a single local report, a father and his daughter were killed in alleged Coalition airstrikes. Mosul Eye reported that 2 civilians (father and his daughter) have been killed in US-led coalition airstrikes in Al-Kindy neighbourhood, on the eastern bank of Mosul.

Summary

(1 child)