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Incident Date

20 April 2015

Incident Code

CI061

Location

Fadhiliya, Nineveh, Iraq
فايده
An airstrike on the village of Fadiliya near Bashiqa, north of Mosul, killed between 5 and 11 civilians according to reports. NINA, citing a peshmerga source, said that three Daesh militants and 11 non-combatants died in a coalition strike. In contrast Arb-q cited a security source as saying that an unidentified airstrike had killed “five…

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20 April 2015
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Incident Code

CI062

Location

near Qayyarah, Nineveh, Iraq
القيارة

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20 April 2015
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Incident Date

19 April 2015

Incident Code

CS063

Location

Mitras, Aleppo, Syria
متراس
A shepherd was reported by the Syrian Network as having been killed in a Coalition airstrike near Mitras. Five other people were injured by shrapnel. The victim's son later described retrieving his father’s body: “The rocket caused a great hole in the ground, almost two metres deep. I buried my father’s body in the town.“…

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19 April 2015
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Incident Date

19 April 2015

Incident Code

CI059

Location

Ar Rutbah, Al Anbar, Iraq
الرطبة
In a likely US or British drone strike, a truck was inadvertently hit during an airstrike at Ar Rutbah, according to a declassified CENTCOM report. “2 seconds prior to weapon impact, a large truck inadvertently arrived at the checkpoint. The back section of the truck was possibly damaged during the strike.” The driver was observed…

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19 April 2015
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Incident Date

12 April 2015

Incident Code

CI058

Location

Hawijah, Kirkuk, Iraq
الحويجة
Internal monitoring by the Coalition initially identified two possible civilian casualties from an airstrike at Hawijah. The attack, on a High Value target code-named ANDERS MESA, was carried out by an A-10 Warthog. According to a CENTCOM report declassified in September 2015, “2 civilians unseen in the collateral calls may have been killed or injured…

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12 April 2015
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Incident Code

CI057

Location

Mosul, Maydan neighborhood, Bab Lagash, Aqaydat, Wadi Hajar, Denden and Tayyaran, Nineveh, Iraq
الموصل‎
According to NINA, an intensive airstrike by the Coalition at dawn killed 11 civilians and injured a further four in Mosul. Strikes reportedly hit the neighbourhoods of Maydan, Bab Lagash, Aqaydat, Wadi Hajar, Denden and Tayyaran. The news website Ajyal reported that up to 30 people had died in an airstrike on a juvenile prison…

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Published
8 April 2015
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Incident Date

4 April 2015

Incident Code

CI056

Location

Fadhiliya, Nineveh, Iraq
فايده
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…

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4 April 2015
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Incident Date

3 April 2015

Incident Code

CI055

Location

Al Waelyiah, Nineveh, Iraq
الوائلية
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.  

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Published
3 April 2015
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Incident Code

CI054

Location

Tall Afar, Nineveh, Iraq
تل عفر
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…

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Published
28 March 2015
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Incident Date

25 March 2015

Incident Code

CI053

Location

Fallujah, multiple neighbourhoods, Al Anbar, Iraq
الفلوجة‎
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…

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Published
25 March 2015
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Incident Date

19 March 2015

Incident Code

CI052

Location

Hawijah, Kirkuk, Iraq
الحويجة
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.…

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Published
19 March 2015
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Incident Date

13 March 2015

Incident Code

CI051

Location

Hatra, Nineveh, Iraq
الحضر
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…

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Published
13 March 2015
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Incident Date

9 March 2015

Incident Code

CI050

Location

Telkaif, Nineveh, Iraq
تل كيف‎
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.  

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9 March 2015
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Incident Date

8 March 2015

Incident Code

CS061

Location

Atimah, Idlib, Syria
اطمه
Sources reported that five unnamed civilian were killed – along with fighters with the al-Nusra Front – in an airstrike on the Syria-Turkey border town of Atama. The building targeted was described as the local headquarters of the al-Nusra Front, an al Qaeda linked faction occasionally targeted by US forces. Photographs and videos depicted heavy…

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Published
8 March 2015
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Incident Date

8 March 2015

Incident Code

CS062

Location

Mundbaith Refinery, Tal Abyad, Raqqa, Syria
Up to 30 people, including civilian oil workers and alleged ISIL militants, died in a night time strike on Mundbaith Refinery according to multiple reports. Ara noted that “The bombing also caused the breaking of glass in houses near the border including shops on the Turkish side, causing panic among the population, and the evacuation…

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Published
8 March 2015
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Incident Date

6 March 2015

Incident Code

CS060

Location

Abu Kamal, al Aisha Hospital, Deir Ezzor, Syria
مشفى عائشة الخيري, البوكمال
Up to five non-combatants including a woman and two infants were reported killed in an alleged 1pm Coalition airstrike on the Aisha hospital in the town of Bukamal. The Violations Documentation Center named one woman as a victim of the strike (described as pregnant by SOHR in an email to Airwars.) Also reported slain were two…

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Published
6 March 2015
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Incident Date

6 March 2015

Incident Code

CI049

Location

Fallujah, al Karma General Hospital, Al Anbar, Iraq
الفلوجة‎
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…

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Published
6 March 2015
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Incident Date

5 March 2015

Incident Code

CI048

Location

Bartalah, Nineveh, Iraq
برطلّة
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…

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Published
5 March 2015
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Incident Date

3 March 2015

Incident Code

CI047

Location

Fallujah, Jamhouriya, Nineveh, Iraq
الجمهورية
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…

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Published
3 March 2015
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Incident Date

28 February 2015

Incident Code

CI046

Location

Mosul, Algiers, Al Faisaliah, flowers, and July neighbourhoods, Nineveh, Iraq
الموصل‎
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…

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Published
28 February 2015
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Incident Code

CI045

Location

Al Qa'im, Al Anbar, Iraq
القائم
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…

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Published
26 February 2015
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Incident Date

26 February 2015

Incident Code

CS059

Location

Tal Tamr, Al Hassakah, Syria
تل تمر
A woman from the town of al-Hussainiyah- said to be the mother of four children – was reported killed in a coalition airstrike on the nearby town of al-Tamr in al Hasakah, according to sources.  

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Published
26 February 2015
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Incident Date

25 February 2015

Incident Code

CI044

Location

Ar Rutbah, Al Anbar, Iraq
الرطبة
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,…

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Published
25 February 2015
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Incident Date

24 February 2015

Incident Code

CI042

Location

Mosul, al-Zohour, al-Tahrir, al-Bunook [also known as Al Massaref] and al-Muthanna neighborhoods, Nineveh, Iraq
الموصل‎
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…

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Published
24 February 2015
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Incident Date

24 February 2015

Incident Code

CI043

Location

Garma, near Fallujah, Al Anbar, Iraq
الكرمة
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…

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Published
24 February 2015
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Incident Date

23 February 2015

Incident Code

CS057

Location

Tall Hamis, Al Hassakah, Syria
تل حميس
According to Syria’s Violations Documentation Center, a Coalition airstrike at Tal Hamis – scene of a major battle between Kurdish forces and Islamic State at the time – resulted in the death of a male teenager. In July 2017, the Coalition classed the event as non credible on grounds of lack of available evidence of…

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Published
23 February 2015
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Incident Date

23 February 2015

Incident Code

CS058

Location

Al Jesse, Al Hassakah, Syria
الجيسي
It was reported that a coalition airstrike in the vicinity of Al Hassakah had killed three unnamed civilians: “The car was bombed while it was on the bridge of a village near the town [of Al Hassakah] which led to the death of three civilians, displaced from the city of Tal Hamis,” according to Thawrah.…

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Published
23 February 2015
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Incident Date

22 February 2015

Incident Code

CS056

Location

Salima, Al Hassakah, Syria
سليمة
A number of sources report that up to 10 civilians, including possibly children, were killed after the coalition mistakenly bombed the wrong village. According to the Stepagency site: “Today six children and a few other civilians were killed in the village of Salima after the coalition planes bombed the village by mistake as it was…

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Published
22 February 2015
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Incident Date

18 February 2015

Incident Code

CI041

Location

Haditha, Al Anbar, Iraq
حديثة
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…

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Published
18 February 2015
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Incident Date

18 February 2015

Incident Code

CS055

Location

Al Maryajib crossroads, in area 47, Al Hassakah, Syria
الشدادي
It was reported that one civilian male was killed in a coalition airstrike at al Shadadi. According to Thiqah he was in the area by chance when coalition aircraft struck: “One civilian was killed and others wounded yesterday (Thursday), when coalition aircraft bombed several areas of the rural southern city of Al-Hasakah.” Activists in the…

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Published
18 February 2015
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