Civilian Casualties

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)

US Forces

Suspected target

Дергачівська громада, Derhachivska community, Kharkiv, Ukraine

LOCATION

On the morning of 1 May 2022, following a sustained period of shelling across the Kharkiv region, one person was injured in alleged Russian shelling on the Derhachivska community. Oleg Sinegubov, head of the Kharkiv OVA, reported on the “one casualty” in the Derhachivska community and warned residents via a Telegram post that they should not

Summary

الموصل: غرب/الجانب الأيمن, Mosul, Farouk and Makawi, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

Local sources reported that up to 23 civilians were killed and 24 injured in airstrikes on Mashahade, Yarmouk, Farouk, and Tanak neighbourhoods in West Mosul and Old Mosul.

Summary

US-led Coalition, Iraq Government Forces

Suspected belligerents

قطن, Qatn, Hadramaut, Yemen

LOCATION

On August 7th 2012, up to four Al Qaeda militants were killed and two others injured in a suspected US airstrike in Al Qotn, Hadhramaut province. There are currently no known reports of civilian harm. A security official said that “a small pick-up truck was completely destroyed at the scene”, Xinhua reported. A picture posted

Summary

Airstrike, Drone Strike

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)

US Forces

Suspected target

Belligerents reported injured

2–4

بحيره, Bahira, Al Hassakah, Syria

LOCATION

A 49 year old man was allegedly shot and injured by Turkish border guards in the village of Bahira on May 3, 2023. Hawar News reported that a civilian was wounded by live bullets fired by the Turkish army. A relative of the injured civilian told a Hawar reporter that live bullets fired between 14:00

Summary

Agriculture

Small arms and light weapons

شعيب الذكر, Sho'aib Al Zakir, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

Up to 40 civilians including a woman and her six children died after their boat sank while it was crossing the Euphrates River near Sho’aib Al-Zikir. While most local sources blamed the UIS-led Coalition, one news organisation said the boat had instead capsized because there were too many people onboard. The Smart News Network reported:

Summary

7 – 40

(6 children1–7 women)

قرية حسن اغا, Hasan Agha village, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

On 16th July 2023, a male civilian was reportedly injured by a Turkish drone strike on a car in the village of Hasan Agha, located to the south of the city of Manbij. 44 year-old Ahmed Al-Jassem was injured and taken to the nearest hospital for treatment and has subsequently been released. An initial Facebook

Summary

Airstrike, Drone Strike

Belligerents reported injured

الدندنية, Al Dandaniyah, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

On 14 June 2023, two children were injured by an alleged Turkish artillery strike, followed by a drone strike, on a farm in Al-Dandaniyah village in Manbij, the western countryside east of Aleppo. One of the children who survived the strike, Muhammad Saeed, noted that the attack ‘directly bombed their whereabouts’ according to Hawar News.

Summary

Airstrike, Artillery, Drone Strike

Agriculture

Belligerents reported injured

الثورة‎, Tabaqah, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

Two men were killed when an alleged Coalition airstrike hit their motorcycle in Tabaqa, according to local sources. @Mohab_Naser reported that the incident occurred “on the main street south of the church roundabout”. The combatant status of the victims was not made clear in any of the reports.

Summary

0 – 2

(2 men)

قرية جورين, Jurin and Na'orat Jurin villages, Hama, Syria

LOCATION

On August 25th, 2023 at least two women were injured and a young woman and child later died due to injuries sustained in a Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) perpetrated assault on Jurin and Na’orat Jurin Villages in Northwest Hama. The woman, Taryaq Rustom and child, Maher Abbas, died four days after the attack after receiving

Summary

Artillery, Ground operation

(1 child1 woman)

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions, Small arms and light weapons

1–3

Causes of injury / death

Turkish Military

2 named, 1 familiy identified

Village

LOCATION

near Mosul, Iraq

In an incident not previously tracked by Airwars, on July 7th 2017 the Coalition said it had concluded an assessment on claims of civilian harm “near Mosul, Iraq” by Human Rights Watch. According to the Coalition report, “83. April 18, 2017, near Mosul, Iraq, via media report: After a review of available information it was

Summary

عطالة, Attale, Al Hassakah, Syria

LOCATION

Two civilian men, Ahmed Fathi al-Roudhan and Ahmed Ibrahim al-Okla, were killed when their car was reportedly struck with gunfire allegedly from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the village of Attale, in the southern countryside of al-Hasakah, at dawn on Wednesday August 30th 2023. Ninesixthree reported the incident took place at the al-Arisha SDF

Summary

(2 men)

Small arms and light weapons

حمرة بلاسم, Hamra Blassem, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

A single source, the Smart News Agency, reported that “three civilians were killed and 11 others were wounded, including a pregnant woman, in suspected Coalition raids on the village of Hamra Balasem“. No further details are currently available.

Summary

الدحلة, Al Dahla, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

At least one person, a young man named Hussein Nahar al-Gharut, was reportedly killed by gunfire allegedly from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the town of Al Dahla, in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor on Monday, September 11th 2023. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported the victim as being a member of

Summary

0 – 1

(1 man)

Small arms and light weapons

YPG

Suspected target

Tribal Forces

0–1

near Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

In an incident not previously tracked by Airwars, on December 28th 2017 the Coalition said it had concluded an assessment on social media claims of civilian harm “80. April 28, 2017 near Mosul, Iraq via social media report. The report contains insufficient information of the time, location and details to assess its credibility.” No additional

Summary

مسجد أحمد ياسين و المسجد الغربي, Ahmed Yassin and Al Gharbi mosques, Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On October 9th 2023, at approximately 4:30 am, three civilians, including two women and a young girl, were killed and a dozen civilians were injured in an alleged Israeli airstrike on Ahmed Yassin mosque and Al-Gharbi mosque located in the Al-Shati refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. Ahmed Yassin mosque is situated opposite the Al-Shati

Summary

IDP or refugee camp, Religious Institution

(1–2 children1–2 women)

الإصلاح الزراعي, Mosul, Isilah Zeraei / Agrarian Reform, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

Local media sources said – based on a statement issued by the Al Amaq (ISIL) press agency – that Coalition and Iraqi Air Force airstrikes hit several neighbourhoods in West Mosul, killing 24 civilians and injuring 75 others. A local resident reported that Azzawi Haj Hamid was among the deadly victims in Agrarian Reform neighbourhood.

Summary

(1 man)

US-led Coalition, Iraq Government Forces

Suspected belligerents

1 named

جباليا, Jabalia, North Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On October 10th, 2023, two civilians, including a child, were killed after alleged Israeli warplanes struck a residential building in the Jabalia refugee Camp. Hisam Mohammed Al Amsi posted on Facebook that his nephew Ahmed Ayman Al-Amsi was reportedly killed in the airstrike. Defense for Children International (DCI) Palestine later added that Ahmed Ayman Al-Amsi

Summary

IDP or refugee camp, Residential building

(1 child1 man)

2 named

Town

الصالحية, Al Salhiya, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

Twelve civilians including up to eight women and four children died and dozens more were wounded in alleged Coalition airstrikes on Al Salhiya village, according to local sources. The Syrian Network for Human Rights put the death toll at ten victims including four children and four women – and blamed the Coalition, while Bassam Jaara

Summary

(4 children7–8 women4 men)

12 – 14

12 named, 1 familiy identified

الصفطاوي, Al Saftawi, North Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

Between 15 and 18 civilians were killed and up to 23 were reportedly injured, including four children, when an alleged Israeli bomb hit the four-storey home of the Abu Hayya family on October 12th 2023., The house was located in the Al-Saftawi area, in the northern Gaza Strip. Shehab Agency reported that there were casualties

Summary

Residential building

15 – 18

(1 woman5 men)

4–23

6 named, 1 familiy identified

Neighbourhood/area

قرية الغوز, Al Ghor, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

According to the ISIS-affiliated media outlet al Amaq, five civilians were killed byTurkish artillery shelling on Al Ghor, a village west of Al Bab. “Five people killed and ten injured following Turkish artillery bombing of the village of al Ghor west of al Bab in the Aleppo countryside,” the propaganda unit claimed. There are currently

Summary

Turkish Military

يعرب, Ya'arob, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

Six to 17 civilians were reportedly killed and as many as hundreds more wounded in the villages of Ya’rob and al Sakhoura in the western Raqqa countryside. However sources were conflicted as to whether they died in a Coalition airstrike or artillery shelling by YPG forces. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the only source

Summary

6 – 17

2–200

7 named, 2 families identified

شارع النزهة, Al Nuzha Street, Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

At around 4 a.m. on Thursday October 12th 2023, at least fifteen people were reportedly killed and dozens of civilians, including at least five children depicted in images, were injured in an alleged Israeli airstrike on a house belonging to the Al-Mutawaq family, located on Al-Nuzha street in Jabalia Al-Balad, in the north of the

Summary

Residential building

الباب, Al Bab, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

Two civilians were reportedly killed in an alleged Turkish artillery shelling on Al Bab. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights wrote: “And two citizens, including a child, were killed in shelling by Turkish forces on areas in Al Bab city in the northeastern countryside of Aleppo.” The ISIS propaganda outlet Al Raed La Ykazeb Ahlahu

Summary

(1 child)

11–15

الشفاء, Mosul, Al-Shafaa, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

Multiple local sources reported that dozens of civilians were killed or injured as a result of heavy airstrikes in Shifa neighborhood, in West Mosul. Yaqein said that the Coalition was responsible for the raids, and that they also led to the destruction of houses of civilians. Sawlf Ateka and Mosul Ista (two local Facebook groups)

Summary

12 – 24

السوارحة, Al Sawarha, Deir Al Balah, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

In the early morning hours of Friday, October 13, 2023, an alleged Israeli airstrike on the four-storey house of the Nofal family situated in Al-Sawarha area of the Gaza Strip’s Nuseirat refugee camp killed at least 27 and up to 30 civilian family members, including at least six women, among them one woman pregnant with

Summary

IDP or refugee camp, Residential building

(16–19 children5 women6 men)

27 – 30

30 named, 1 familiy identified

Neighbourhood/area

حي خان العسل, Khan Al Assal (Aleppo), Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

Three civilians including one child died and five more were injured in an alleged Russian airstrike on Khan Assal, according to local sources. Orient News put the death toll at three and said that one of those killed was a child. It blamed Russia. Step News Agency also said that Russia was responsible, while SRG

Summary

(1 child)

Russian Military

حي الزنجيلي, Mosul, Zinjili, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

A single local source reported to Yaqein Agency that five children and their mother were killed after Coalition airstrikes hit their house in Zanjili neighborhood in West Mosul. The source had added that “heavy and continuous indiscriminate shelling makes the task of recovering the bodies and transporting the wounded very difficult, as well as [getting]

Summary

(5 children1 woman)

طريق البريد, Al Barid Road, Khan Younis, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On October 17, 2023, at least 10 people, members of the Barbakh family, were killed and at least five others were wounded during an alleged Israeli airstrike at the Barbakh family home on Al Barid road, central Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip. The attack, which struck the property located opposite the post office in central

Summary

Residential building

(4–5 children4 women1 man)

10 – 20

10 named, 1 familiy identified

Exact location (via Airwars)