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Incident Date
4 April 2015
Incident Code
CI056
Location
فايده, Fadhiliya, Nineveh, Iraq
Five Kurdish non-combatants, all from the same family, died in a reported Coalition strike on the village of Fadhiliyah, near Mosul. A major field investigation by the Guardian later identified the dead. Three family members survived the attack though were injured. Rahim, an eyewitness and relative, told the Guardian: “We wrapped the dead in blankets…
Summary
Published
4 April 2015
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
5
Civilians reported injured
3
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
3 April 2015
Incident Code
CI055
Location
الوائلية, Al Waelyiah, Nineveh, Iraq
Abdarahman Alloizi MP, a deputy in the Iraqi parliament, claimed that as many as 26 civilians from one family died, when the coalition struck a house near Mosul, in the village of Al Waeliyah. No additional details are presently known.
Summary
Published
3 April 2015
Civilians reported killed
26
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Code
CI054
Location
تل عفر, Tall Afar, Nineveh, Iraq
According to an internal CENTCOM document, according to a self-reported night time incident involving an American aircraft may have caused civilian casualties: “US F-16 may have unintentionally struck the nearest collateral object (NCO) and unintentionally struck a car that moved into the FOV [field of view.]“ The outcome of any investigation at the time the…
Summary
Published
28 March 2015
Civilians reported killed
0–1
Civilians reported injured
0–1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
25 March 2015
Incident Code
CI053
Location
الفلوجة, Fallujah, multiple neighbourhoods, Al Anbar, Iraq
Local residents reported that seven civilians died in a coalition airstrike on Fallujah, with 22 more injured. There were claims that a number of neighbourhoods were hit, including in the west and south of the city. A resident of Fallujah of unknown status, named as Shawki Al-Abdal Saidi, put out a press statement claiming that…
Summary
Published
25 March 2015
Civilians reported killed
7
Civilians reported injured
22
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
19 March 2015
Incident Code
CI052
Location
الحويجة, Hawijah, Kirkuk, Iraq
In an event previously unknown to Airwars, an internal CENTCOM review of a Coalition strike on an ‘ISIL weapons assembly area’ at Hawijah identified a possible issue. According to the report, “ISR imagery showed that an unintentional potential ClVCAS may have occurred. Unidentified and unexpected personnel were seen IVO [in the vicinity of] the detonations.…
Summary
Published
19 March 2015
Civilians reported killed
0–2
Civilians reported injured
0–2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
13 March 2015
Incident Code
CI051
Location
الحضر, Hatra, Nineveh, Iraq
A US airstrike ‘likely’ killed four civilians when a pair of vehicles was hit during an attack on a reported ISIL checkpoint, a CENTCOM investigation later concluded. After a later investigation by the Washington Post found that eleven civilians actually died – including five children, four women and two civilian drivers – the Coalition raised…
Summary
Published
13 March 2015
Civilians reported killed
11
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
9 March 2015
Incident Code
CI050
Location
تل كيف, Telkaif, Nineveh, Iraq
Eight civilians including three women were claimed by NINA to have been killed in a coalition airstrike on Telkaif, 20km north of Mosul. A dozen militants also reportedly died in the attack.
Summary
Published
9 March 2015
Civilians reported killed
8
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
6 March 2015
Incident Code
CI049
Location
الفلوجة, Fallujah, al Karma General Hospital, Al Anbar, Iraq
An alleged coalition air strike on Garma hospital in east Fallujah reportedly killed one doctor and injured five other medical staff. According to Al Sumaria TV, one source stated that “the bombing of the hospital was due to the presence of armed men belonging to Daesh inside.” However the Iraqi Spring site attributed the attack…
Summary
Published
6 March 2015
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
5
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
5 March 2015
Incident Code
CI048
Location
برطلّة, Bartalah, Nineveh, Iraq
According to NINA, a source in the forensic medicine department of the local hospital reported that numerous civilians died “in bombing by the international coalition aircraft [which] targeted a stronghold of the Islamic State in Bartalah north of Mosul.” Among 16 alleged civilian victims were five children and two women, whose bodies were said to…
Summary
Published
5 March 2015
Civilians reported killed
16
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
3 March 2015
Incident Code
CI047
Location
الجمهورية, Fallujah, Jamhouriya, Nineveh, Iraq
Aircraft bombed a primary school and a hospital in the Jamhouriya neighbourhood of Fallujah, reportedly killing up to 12 civilians and injuring 9. Local media reported that children were among the dead, including 11-year old Suhaib Jassem Batawi. According to Arabi21, the attack was the work of the Iraq Air Force and had killed three…
Summary
Published
3 March 2015
Infrastructure
Education
Civilians reported killed
3–12
Civilians reported injured
4–9
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
28 February 2015
Incident Code
CI046
Location
الموصل, Mosul, Algiers, Al Faisaliah, flowers, and July neighbourhoods, Nineveh, Iraq
Sources in Mosul claimed that Coalition airstrikes hit a residential neighbourhood in the city, “killing 17 civilians, including six children, and wounded another 23 who were taken to hospitals in Mosul.” According to BasNews, Daesh/ Islamic State appeared to have recently shifted its headquarters and military positions “into residential neighborhoods,” a move which had likely…
Summary
Published
28 February 2015
Civilians reported killed
16–24
Civilians reported injured
23–24
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
Incident Code
CI045
Location
القائم, Al Qa'im, Al Anbar, Iraq
According to Reuters, a coalition airstrike which killed 17 Islamic State militants also caused the deaths of 9 non-combatants: “The hospital source in al-Qaim, a town on the Euphrates River, said nine civilians were killed and 29 militants were wounded in the strike by the U.S.-led coalition which is bombing Islamic State targets in Iraq…
Summary
Published
26 February 2015
Civilians reported killed
3–12
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
25 February 2015
Incident Code
CI044
Location
الرطبة, Ar Rutbah, Al Anbar, Iraq
According to Reuters, a Coalition airstrike caused significant casualties in Ar Rutbah: “Coalition planes bombed al-Rutba district, 385 km west of Baghdad, killing six Islamic State militants and 11 civilians, according to a source in the local hospital.” ARA News placed the civilian death toll from coalition strikes at Rutba at 10. In July 2017,…
Summary
Published
25 February 2015
Civilians reported killed
10–11
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
24 February 2015
Incident Code
CI042
Location
الموصل, Mosul, al-Zohour, al-Tahrir, al-Bunook [also known as Al Massaref] and al-Muthanna neighborhoods, Nineveh, Iraq
Reported Coalition airstrikes on multiple targets in eastern Mosul – said to be occupied by Islamic State forces – allegedly killed 14 civilians, including women and children. According to NINA, medical forensic teams in Mosul “received 14 dead bodies belonging to civilians, [who] were killed in al-Zohour, al-Tahrir, al-Bunook [also known as Al Massaref] and…
Summary
Published
24 February 2015
Civilians reported killed
14
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
24 February 2015
Incident Code
CI043
Location
الكرمة, Garma, near Fallujah, Al Anbar, Iraq
Seven civilians from one family – including young children – were killed and 8 injured when a house was allegedly struck by a coalition aircraft. However other sources attributed the attack to an artillery assault by the Iraq Army. The dead were later named by the Iraqi Spring Centre. Seven additional people were named as…
Summary
Published
24 February 2015
Civilians reported killed
7–20
Civilians reported injured
7
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
18 February 2015
Incident Code
CI041
Location
حديثة, Haditha, Al Anbar, Iraq
Local sources in Haditha reported that up to 15 civilians were killed and an unknown number were injured after an alleged coalition airstrike hit Albu Haiyat mosque at midday prayers. Al Iraq News stated that among those killed were captured “members of the Iraqi security forces who are were being guarded at the mosque.” However…
Summary
Published
18 February 2015
Civilians reported killed
12–15
Civilians reported injured
2–4
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
17 February 2015
Incident Code
CI039
Location
الموصل, Mosul, Cultural area, Nineveh, Iraq
According to NINA, citing a security source, nine members of a family – including women and children – died after coalition warplanes “bombed a house at dawn in the Althaqafiyah residential complex area in the north of Mosul, suspected of being taking a den or a hideout by Daash terrorists.”
Summary
Published
17 February 2015
Civilians reported killed
9
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
17 February 2015
Incident Code
CI040
Location
الموصل, Mosul, multiple neighbourhoods, Nineveh, Iraq
According to a single source, local eyewitness claimed one unnamed civilian was killed and five others were severely injured after the coalition allegedly bombed several areas in Makhmoor, south of Mosul
Summary
Published
17 February 2015
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
5
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
8 February 2015
Incident Code
CI038
Location
الموصل, 100km South of Mosul on ‘Road 1’, Nineveh, Iraq
An alleged coalition airstrike struck a vehicle on the road between Mosul and Baghdad, which was carrying Jordanian mosque janitor Ahmed Abdul Aqi [sometimes Baqi], his wife and daughter. All three died in the incident. The driver of the car Ahmed al Azzawi (pictured below) also died according to his family. In a detailed report…
Summary
Published
8 February 2015
Civilians reported killed
4
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
3 February 2015
Incident Code
CI036
Location
الموصل, Kisik Junction, Nineveh, Iraq
An internal post-strike review for CENTCOM of full-motion video revealed a “possible child entering a targeted bunker and then disappearing out of the field of view (FOV) approximately 19 minutes before Strike.” The dynamic strike, conducted by a French Mirage 2000 using a Bu-49 bomb, killed an estimated five enemy fighters. Claims that a child…
Summary
Published
3 February 2015
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
Incident Code
CI035
Location
الموصل, Mosul, Centre, Nineveh, Iraq
Citing a police source in the city, NINA claimed that nine civilians were killed and seven injured in an international coalition airstrike: “The source said that ‘the international coalition targeted the homes of civilians which resulted in the killing and injuring of dozens of civilians’… He pointed out that ‘the bodies of the martyrs arrived…
Summary
Published
28 January 2015
Civilians reported killed
9
Civilians reported injured
7
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
26 January 2015
Incident Code
CI034
Location
الموصل, Mosul, South, Nineveh, Iraq
Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad reported two alleged Coalition airstrikes, killing five and injuring two civilians called Mohammed Mohammed Ahmed and Ebtehalf Mohammed Yosef. The first attack took place at 7.40 AM local time on the highway close to the town of Umm al-Dheban at that time. The second airstrike was at 8.40 AM local time…
Summary
Published
26 January 2015
Civilians reported killed
5
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
Incident Code
CI033
Location
الموصل, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq
The previously-secret CENTCOM file also noted reports by redacted “prominent anti-ISIL Twitter users” that “civilians are being killed in the bombardment.” With so few details to go on, CENTCOM concluded that there was “insufficient evidence to determine date and time of any specific allegation.”
Summary
Published
24 January 2015
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
23 January 2015
Incident Code
CI032
Location
الرمادي, Ramadi, Al Anbar, Iraq
An internal CENTCOM report cited a Tweet on January 23rd as claiming that 6 members of one family had been killed in a Coalition strike in Anbar province. The identity of the tweeter was redacted in a publicly-released version of the file, though they were described as “Pro-ISIL… reported coalition airstrikes killed 6 family members…
Summary
Published
23 January 2015
Civilians reported killed
6
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
22 January 2015
Incident Code
CI030
Location
خزيمة, Aski Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq
An internal CENTCOM report identified concerns of civilian fatalities raised by local Nineveh MP Abd al Rahman al-Luwayzi. According to the MP, “Arab families, fleeing the area of Aski Musil were targeted by coalition aircraft, killing or wounding ‘scores of civilians.” The town is situated on the banks of the Tigris River to the north…
Summary
Published
22 January 2015
Civilians reported killed
2
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
22 January 2015
Incident Code
CI031
Location
الموصل, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq
An internal CENTCOM report cited a Tweet by an Iraqi “self proclaimed freelance journalist” (identified as Mr Zyad al-Senjary) who had posted a photograph of “a partially-destroyed house and claimed 2 children were killed and several Iraqis injured in a UAV [drone] strike.” An initial CENTCOM inquiry identified 32 total Coalition engagements in Nineveh for…
Summary
Published
22 January 2015
Civilians reported killed
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
21 January 2015
Incident Code
CI029
Location
الكسك, Kisik Junction, Nineveh, Iraq
A Canadian airstrike at Kisik Junction was alleged to have killed between 6 and 27 civilians, according to an internal CENTCOM report. The source was an English-speaking peshmerga fighter, who had passed on his concerns to Coalition Special Forces based in Iraq. The Canadian attack had targeted “an ISIL sniper/ HMG [havy machine gun] position…
Summary
Published
21 January 2015
Civilians reported killed
6–27
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
11 January 2015
Incident Code
CI028
Location
القيارة, Qayyarah, Nineveh, Iraq
A single source claimed that a coalition strike on the town of Qayyarah near Mosul killed and injured “dozens.”
Summary
Published
11 January 2015
Civilians reported killed
24
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
2 January 2015
Incident Code
CI027
Location
الفرحانية, Villages of Al-Farhaniya and al-Subaihat, Salah Al Din, Iraq
An airstrike by an unspecified belligerent reportedly killed 12 civilians including women and children, and wounded an additional 23. The deaths occurred during an Iraqi government offensive against Islamic State.
Summary
Published
2 January 2015
Civilians reported killed
12
Civilians reported injured
23
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
26 December 2014
Incident Code
CI025
Location
الموصل, Mosul, Al Wehda, Nineveh, Iraq
Local residents reported that an “international airstrike” involving three missiles had struck houses killing and injuring civilians. NINA claimed that five women from one family were among the dead.
Summary
Published
26 December 2014
Civilians reported killed
7
Civilians reported injured
4
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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