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Incident Date

8 September 2016

Incident Code

CI284

Location

Tall Afar, Nineveh, Iraq
تل عفر
Between two and seven civilians including women and children died – and five were injured – in an alleged Coalition airstrike on the Tel Al Shaeer and Aski Mosul areas in Tal Afar, west of Mosul, according to local sources. Yaqein reported that the Coalition carried out a strike that “targeted the villages of Tel…

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8 September 2016
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Incident Date

31 August 2016

Incident Code

CI283

Location

Ramadi, Al Anbar, Iraq
الرمادي
In a previously unreported incident, the US admitted three months later that it had killed two civilians in an attack on Ramadi, noting that near Ramadi, Iraq, during a strike against an ISIL target, it is assessed that two civilians were killed. No additional details are presently known.  

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Published
31 August 2016
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Incident Date

23 August 2016

Incident Code

CI281

Location

Mosul, Hadba and Zuhoor, Nineveh, Iraq
حي الحدباء
Local sources claimed that the Coalition struck allegedly Hadbah and Zuhoor neighbourhoods in Mosul resulting in up to 10 deaths and additional injuries among other civilians. However US-led alliance has informed Airwars that We can confirm that no Coalition strikes were conducted in Mosul between August 22nd and August 24th. According to Yaqein, the international airline…

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Published
23 August 2016
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Incident Date

23 August 2016

Incident Code

CI282

Location

Qayyarah, Nineveh, Iraq
القيارة
In an incident not previously tracked by Airwars, the Coalition later confirmed the injury of one civilian in an airstrike on the northern outskirts of al Qayyarah. Their July 2018 civilian casualty report noted: "During a strike on Daesh improvised weapons assembly area, one civilian was unintentionally injured.” The Coalition provided Airwars with the location…

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Published
23 August 2016
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Incident Date

22 August 2016

Incident Code

CI280

Location

Qayyarah, Nineveh, Iraq
القيارة
According to various reports, 10 people were killed and 20 injured following an alleged Coalition strike at Qayyarah targeting by mistake civilians houses. Al Qayyarah Now – which described the strike as accidental – said children were among the dead. The Arabi Asad blog said two families died. Other local reports described heavy shelling of…

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Published
22 August 2016
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Incident Date

21 August 2016

Incident Code

CI279

Location

Ar Rutbah, Al Anbar, Iraq
الرطبة
According to two sources, at least 7 civilians killed including a child and woman and 6 injuries by an alleged Coalition airstrike in Rutba district west of Anbar. The sources cited that the strikes targeted various locations in Rutba district. No additional details are presently known. In the second of their March 2020 civilian casualty reports, the US-led Coalition…

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Published
21 August 2016
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Incident Date

19 August 2016

Incident Code

CI278

Location

Mosul, Al-Jawsaq, Nineveh, Iraq
الجوسق
As many as 19 civilians reportedly died in an alleged Coalition airstrike at Jissag near Mosul. Up to nine children and five women were said to be among the dead. Yaqein reported the deaths of a woman and her four children in what was described as a Coalition strike. The Iraqi Spring Media Centre also…

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Published
19 August 2016
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Incident Date

15 August 2016

Incident Code

CI276

Location

Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq
الموصل
Four civilians were reported killed and 24 injured in alleged Coalition airstrikes on Mosul, as the battle for the ISIL-occupied city intensified. No additional details are presently known. See the following report. In the second of their March 2020 civilian casualty reports, the US-led Coalition assessed reports that they were responsible for civilian harm in…

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Published
15 August 2016
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Incident Date

15 August 2016

Incident Code

CI277

Location

Mosul, Cultural District, Nineveh, Iraq
الثقافية
In a second alleged Coalition event in Mosul for the day, between 7 and 13 civilians reportedly died with 35 or more injured, after the Tamatim food distribution building was hit in the city. NRN, which published graphic photos, reported the fall of more than 48 civilians in the bombing by the Coalition in Mosul.…

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Published
15 August 2016
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Incident Date

12 August 2016

Incident Code

CI275

Location

Qayyarah, Nineveh, Iraq
القيارة
A number of sources reported that six non-combatants including two children died, in an alleged Coalition airstrike on a vehicle-borne IED factory in Qayyarah. The Coalition conceded the event two years later. According to Qayyarah News at the time, the airstrike destroyed an ISIS facility which contained two vehicles already packed with explosives. The resulting…

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Published
12 August 2016
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Incident Date

4 August 2016

Incident Code

CI274

Location

Mosul, Baweiza, Nineveh, Iraq
بعويزة
An alleged Coalition airstrike in the Baoizh area of Mosul (or Bo’weza) reportedly killed a female child and injured four other civilians. According to NRN News, a Coalition strike killed a number of Daesh militants but also killed a number of civilians, including a little girl who died under the rubble.  

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Published
4 August 2016
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Incident Date

3 August 2016

Incident Code

CI273

Location

Hawijah, Kirkuk, Iraq
الحويجة
A single source reported the deaths of 10 civilians and the injuring of nine others in alleged Coalition and Iraqi government actions in and around Hawijah. According to Yaqein, international Coalition warplanes targeted, on Wednesday evening, the village of Albrglah and three areas in the district of Hawija, southwest of Kirkuk, killing ten civilians and…

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Published
3 August 2016
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Incident Date

2 August 2016

Incident Code

CI272

Location

Al Qa'im, Al Anbar, Iraq
القائم
Multiple sources claimed that an alleged Coalition strike on the al Sanjak and Karabila areas of Al Qaim killed 45 children and a woman. However, no Coalition strikes were publicly reported in the vicinity. Yaqein reported that most of the civilians are still under the rubble caused by the intensity of the shelling and the…

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Published
2 August 2016
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Incident Date

1 August 2016

Incident Code

CI271

Location

Al Qa'im, Al Anbar, Iraq
القائم
Local sources claimed that Coalition airstrikes had struck neighbourhoods in Qa’im City resulting in 9 civilian deaths – 5 children and 4 women- and 10 injuries. According to Iraq Spring, five homes were hit. ISIL’s media arm later issued a graphic video showing significant destruction at the scene and the bodies of four young children.…

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Published
1 August 2016
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Incident Date

31 July 2016

Incident Code

CI270

Location

Mosul, Faculty of Islamic Sciences at the University of Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq
كلية العلوم الاسلامية
According to multiple reports, alleged night time or dawn Coalition strikes on homes in the vicinity of the Technical Institute and the Faculty of Islamic Sciences at the University of Mosul resulted in nearly 20 civilian fatalities. NRN said many civilian casualties from the brutal strikes came when fragments of the destroyed buildings struck nearby bystanders…

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Published
31 July 2016
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Incident Date

27 July 2016

Incident Code

CI269

Location

Hit, Bakir, Al Anbar, Iraq
حي البكر
An unspecified number of civilians was reported killed and injured during alleged Coalition airstrikes at Hit. According to the Iraqi Spring Media Centre, Coalition aircraft have struck the Bakir and Mahboubiya neighbourhoods in Hit in western Anbar, resulting in deaths and injuries. In the second of their March 2020 civilian casualty reports, the US-led Coalition…

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Published
27 July 2016
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Incident Date

19 July 2016

Incident Code

CI268

Location

Al Shirqat, Salah Al Din, Iraq
الشرقاط
One woman was reported killed and at least half a dozen civilians injured in an alleged Iraqi government or Coalition airstrike at Sharqat. The casualties were said to have occurred when a Daesh headquarters was bombed in the late morning. Al Samarra TV reported that three families were injured and one woman killed… after inaccurate…

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Published
19 July 2016
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Incident Date

17 July 2016

Incident Code

TI005

Location

Fadhiliya, Nineveh, Iraq
الفاضلية
A local MP complained that a number of civilians had been killed and injured in fresh Turkish shelling of Fadhiliya village. Salim Juma told NRN News that artillery strikes from a nearby Turkish base at Bashiqa “killed and injured a number of civilians, including women and children.” The MP called on the regional Kurdish government…

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Published
17 July 2016
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Incident Date

16 July 2016

Incident Code

CI267

Location

Hawijah, Kirkuk, Iraq
الحويجة
An alleged Coalition strike targeted the house of an ISIL commander named as Abu Hajar, said to be from Diyala province, also reportedly killed his whole family according to a single source.

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Published
16 July 2016
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Incident Date

14 July 2016

Incident Code

CI266

Location

Qayyarah, Nineveh, Iraq
القيارة
In an incident not previously tracked by Airwars, the Coalition later confirmed the injury of a civilian in an attack on Qayyarah. In November 2016, CENTCOM noted in their civilian casualty report that "during a strike on an ISIL-held building, it is assessed that one civilian was killed." In April 2017 the Coalition revised its…

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Published
14 July 2016
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Incident Date

12 July 2016

Incident Code

CI265

Location

Hawijah, Kirkuk, Iraq
الحويجة
Two displaced families from Tikrit were reportedly killed in an alleged Iraqi government or Coalition airstrike at Hawijah. Iraqi Spring reported that all members of his family died in the bombing of their house by the Coalition. Another local source claimed a second family was also killed. There was confusion about who might have been responsible…

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Published
12 July 2016
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Incident Date

8 July 2016

Incident Code

CI264

Location

Al Qa'im, Al Anbar, Iraq
القائم
Six members of one family including four children were reported killed in an alleged Coalition airstrike on Al Qaim. Yaqen reported that “the bombing also caused considerable material damage to civilian homes in those affected areas in the city of Qaim.” And Rawa Hama said a number of Daesh fighters were also killed and injured…

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Published
8 July 2016
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Incident Date

Incident Code

CI263

Location

Hawijah, Kirkuk, Iraq
الحويجة
A single source claimed that Coalition strikes in the vicinity of Hawijah killed five non-combatants and injured an additional 12 people. A number of homes were reportedly damaged in the incident. No additional information is presently known.

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Published
7 July 2016
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Incident Date

1 July 2016

Incident Code

CI262

Location

Zankura, Al Anbar, Iraq
زانكورة
Up to 25 internally displaced Iraqis were reported killed in Zankura following alleged Coalition strikes and Iraqi government shelling. Iraqi Revolution reported the martyrdom of at least 25 civilians, mostly women and children, in a massacre by the international Coalition and [Iraqi] government aircraft following the bombing of the home of Saleh Hajji at Zankura,…

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Published
1 July 2016
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Incident Date

30 June 2016

Incident Code

CI260

Location

Mosul, East [Cultural group], Nineveh, Iraq
الموصل‎
According to local sources, a targeted Coalition strike on the local head of ISIL’s sharia courts killed both him and his wife. They reportedly held French passports. The strike targeted the Al-Majmoa’ Al-Thaqafiya area of western Mosul. In the second of their March 2020 civilian casualty reports, the US-led Coalition assessed reports that they were…

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Published
30 June 2016
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Incident Date

30 June 2016

Incident Code

CI261

Location

Ramadi, Al Anbar, Iraq
الرمادي
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…

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Published
30 June 2016
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Incident Date

29 June 2016

Incident Code

CI259

Location

Fallujah, Al Anbar, Iraq
الفلوجة‎
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…

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Published
29 June 2016
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Incident Date

26 June 2016

Incident Code

CI258

Location

Near Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq
الموصل‎
In an incident not previously tracked by Airwars, the US-led Coalition later admitted that it had injured one civilian near Mosul five months earlier. Their November 2016 civilian casualty report noted: "June 26, 2016, near Mosul, Iraq, during a strike against an ISIL target, it is assessed that one individual was injured after entering the…

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Published
26 June 2016
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Incident Date

26 June 2016

Incident Code

CI257

Location

Badush, Nineveh, Iraq
بادوش
Local sources reported that 25 civilians were killed and 48 wounded following an alleged Coalition targeted residential neighbourhoods in Badush, north-west of Mosul. Iraqi Revolution reported “dozens of raids, while Iraqi Spring Media said four families were killed. The US later confirmed two separate casualty incidents in Mosul that day from the strikes – but…

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Published
26 June 2016
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Incident Date

25 June 2016

Incident Code

CI256

Location

Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq
الموصل: غرب/الجانب الأيمن
One local source, Mosul Eye, reported that eight civilian detainees of Daesh were killed after the coalition allegedly targeted a Daesh convoy which was transferring the prisoners to court. Mosul Eye reported: The source explained to Mousliyn, that elements of the organisation brought a group of prisoners by bus for their ‘trial, but international Coalition…

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Published
25 June 2016
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