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Incident Date
26 December 2014
Incident Code
CS037
Location
الباب, Aleppo, Aleppo, Syria
An internal CENTCOM review reported unnamed open sources as claiming civilian casualties had occurred as a result of Coalition airstrikes. A provisional review found that there had been no international airstrikes in the vicinity of the city on that date. Airwars researchers later identified coverage from the time of Assad regime attacks on Aleppo on…
Summary
Published
26 December 2014
Civilians reported killed
4–45
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
28 December 2014
Incident Code
CS038
Location
الباب, Al-Bab, Aleppo, Syria
In one of the the worst known incidents of mass civilian casualties reportedly caused by coalition bombings, at least 51 non-combatants were killed when aircraft struck an Islamic State local headquarters, which was also being used as a temporary prison. Somewhere between 150 and 400 people were being held by ISIL on petty charges at…
Summary
Published
28 December 2014
Civilians reported killed
51–65
Civilians reported injured
20
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
28 December 2014
Incident Code
CS039
Location
جرابلس, Jarabulus, Cultural center, Aleppo, Syria
An 8.30pm coalition bombing raid on Jarablos – a major Islamic State hub – destroyed a cultural centre being used as an ISIL headquarters in the town. According to Aleppo News, “According to activists, the strikes caused great devastation in the building in addition to the destruction of two civilian houses in the vicinity. Witnesses…
Summary
Published
28 December 2014
Civilians reported killed
3
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
5 January 2015
Incident Code
CS040
Location
معرحطاط, Ma`arr Hitat, Idlib, Syria
The Syrian Martyrs website, lists one civilian male as a victim of a coalition strike. It is unclear whether he was killed in his home town of Ma’ar Hatat in Idlib or in Raqqa. However, the original listing in Damascus Centre for Human Rights Studies lists him as a militant from Idlib - and reports…
Summary
Published
5 January 2015
Civilians reported killed
1
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
11 January 2015
Incident Code
CS041
Location
دير الزور, Deir ez-Zor, Deir Ezzor, Syria
Extensive coalition air raids on Islamic State-controlled oil fields reportedly killed four civilian oil workers, according to a number of sources. Local website Step Agency listed what it said were the targets struck: “The alliance planes at dawn today launched more than five raids targeting Islamic State near the town of Abu Kamal in the…
Summary
Published
11 January 2015
Civilians reported killed
4–5
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
Incident Code
CS042
Location
near al-Bo Omar, Syria, Deir Ezzor, Syria
In the January 25th 2018 civilian casualty report, the Coalition reported that a civilian casualties allegation near al-Bo Omar had been assessed as non credible: “#1 Jan. 12, 2015, near al-Bo Omar, Syria via regional human rights group report. After a review of available information it was assessed that no Coalition strikes were conducted in…
Summary
Published
12 January 2015
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
14 January 2015
Incident Code
CS043
Location
حماة, Um al Nayr, Idlib, Syria
A female civilian, a civil engineer, was reported by Syrian Martyrs to have been killed in a Coalition airstrike. Confused reporting placed her death either at Umm Al Nayr near Hama, or at nearby Kaferzita. However, VDC - which named the victim - stated that a 25 year old instead died in an attack by…
Summary
Published
14 January 2015
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
14 January 2015
Incident Code
CS044
Location
الحسكة, Al Hasakah, Deir Ezzor, Syria
The website Syrian Martyrs identifies one man it says was killed in a Coalition airstrike near Dayr Ezzawr. He was reported as a resident of Tayana, the village where he was killed. However Damascus Centre for Human Rights Studies - which named him - said that although he was from Tayana, he was killed in Al…
Summary
Published
15 January 2015
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
18 January 2015
Incident Code
CS045
Location
الطيانة, Tayyani, Deir Ezzor, Syria
An adult civilian male, was reported by a number of sources as killed in a coalition airstrike on his neighbourhood.
Summary
Published
18 January 2015
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
19 January 2015
Incident Code
CS046
Location
الشدادي, Shadadi, Al Hassakah, Syria
An internal CENTCOM review cited reports from the ‘pro-opposition’ Step News Agency that three civilians had died when Coalition missiles struck homes in al-Shaddadi. According to the news site, “two civilian houses were targeted leading to the martyrdom of three from one family and several wounded including women and children.” The Coalition concluded that its…
Summary
Published
19 January 2015
Civilians reported killed
3
Civilians reported injured
4
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
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
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
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
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
25 January 2015
Incident Code
CS047
Location
ﺣﻠﺐ, Aleppo, Aleppo, Syria
The Syrian Martyrs website identified a single non-combatant victim of a reported Coalition strike in Aleppo. He was also named by the Damascus Centre for Human Rights Research which said he was originally from Idlib, though didn't specify if he was a civilian or a militant. However, all other sources described al Jolani as a…
Summary
Published
25 January 2015
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
0–1
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
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
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
29 January 2015
Incident Code
CS048
Location
الطيانة, Eastern Al Buwaida or Kobane, Deir Ezzor, Syria
A non-combatant civilian male, Abd Al Rahman Ahmad Bkar, from the town of Al Kussair near Homs was reported killed in an airstrike. While Syrian Martyrs attributed the strike to the Coalition, VDC blamed the Assad regime. Other reports were unclear. The location of the man’s death was also confused, given variously as Kobane in…
Summary
Published
29 January 2015
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
1
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
2 February 2015
Incident Code
CS049
Location
الشدادي, Shadadi, Al Hassakah, Syria
Major coalition air raids on the oil fields around Shadadi reportedly led to the deaths of up to four non-combatants. Residents described a significant attack, with one site reporting: “Among the most prominent oil fields targeted were Al Rawees and Al Howyaziah east of Shadadi. The fires are also still burning in Kabiba close to…
Summary
Published
2 February 2015
Civilians reported killed
3–6
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
2 February 2015
Incident Code
CS050
Location
الشدادي, Shadadi, Al Hassakah, Syria
In a second alleged incident in the area for this night, it was reported that civilian oil workers died in a Coalition attack. According to Thiqa, “preliminary reports refer to the fall of the martyrs among civilians working in the oil, as well as a number of wounded civilians arrived at the field hospital located…
Summary
Published
2 February 2015
Civilians reported killed
2
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
4 February 2015
Incident Code
CS051
Location
الرقة, Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria
An internal CENTCOM review cited claims from a redacted Twitter user that “Coalition aircraft killed an entire family in an airstrike on Ar Raqqah ‘in response to the killing of Jordanian pilot Mu’adh al-Kasasibah.’ The allegation was accompanied by an attached photo showing the alleged victims wrapped in white cloth.“ An internal review found that…
Summary
Published
4 February 2015
Civilians reported killed
4
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
6 February 2015
Incident Code
CS052
Location
الرقة, Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria
A Jordanian airstrike against an “ISIL weapons compound” – in coordination with the US military – allegedly killed US aid worker and hostage Kayla Mueller, along with up to 30 militants from Islamic State. The US later said that “with the information that we have there’s no evidence of civilians in the target area prior…
Summary
Published
6 February 2015
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
6 February 2015
Incident Code
CS053
Location
الشدادي, Shadadi, Al Hassakah, Syria
A coalition airstrike allegedly killed four unnamed civilian males in the vicinity of Al Shadadi, according to VDC. The Step news agency reported multiple coalition strikes in the vicinity: “The Alliance today carried out a number of raids on ISIL targets south of Al Hassakah. Five missiles fell on the city of Shadadi followed by…
Summary
Published
6 February 2015
Civilians reported killed
4
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
11 February 2015
Incident Code
CS054
Location
كبيبة, Kbeibah, Al Hassakah, Syria
Two oil workers were killed and two others injured in a reported Coalition airstrike on a house used by workers at Kbeibah, according to a number of sources The two dead men were buried at Hadida Cemetery in Hassakah. The Syrian Network for Human Rights published a detailed report on the event: "On Wednesday February…
Summary
Published
11 February 2015
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
2
Civilians reported injured
2
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
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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