Civilian Casualties

الشرقاط, Al Shirqat, Salah Al Din, Iraq

LOCATION

Local sources claimed a whole family was killed after Coalition warplanes allegedly destroyed their house in the Sharqat region. News of Iraq reported that the Coalition allegedly bombed civilian homes in Sharqat, resulting in the destruction of a house and the deaths all of the family members inside it. A video posted by Daesh propagandists

Summary

7 – 13

(2 children4 women1 man)

7 named, 1 familiy identified

Garbahaarey, Gedo, Somalia

LOCATION

An unknown number of casualties among militants resulted from alleged Somalia forces with the assistance of US airstrikes/drone strikes on October 7, 2021. Harun Maruf a journalist with Voice of America reported that the Somali military in collaboration with international security partners carried out airstrikes on four militant camps, destroying them. At the time there

Summary

Airstrike, Drone Strike

US Forces, Somali Military Forces

Suspected target

Al-Shabaab

Belligerents reported killed

Belligerents reported injured

القائم, Al Qa'im, Al Anbar, Iraq

LOCATION

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

Summary

(4 children)

درلوك, Deralok, Duhok, Iraq

LOCATION

A father and son were killed and another civilian was injured after an alleged Turkish airstrike near the town of Deraluk, Amedi district, on May 30th, 2020, according to local media reports. The victims were Jalal Nuradin, 60, and his son Ahmed Nuradin, 32, reported K24, Christian Peacemaker Teams and Ahval. Khalil Nerway, a relative

Summary

(2 men)

Turkish Military

ميادين, Al Mayadin, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

An alleged Coalition (or possibly Assad regime) airstrike on a fuel truck also killed two civilians and injured two more, according to reports. According to Al Hall, “Two civilians were killed and two others wounded, on Sunday afternoon, bombed by warplanes on the road in the Mayadeen desert east of Deir al-Zour). Abu Omar (a

Summary

منبج, Manbij, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

At least two civilians, a woman and a child, were injured in alleged Turkish shelling of Manbij on May 12, 2022. According to Hawar News, a woman and a child were injured by Turkish shelling of Manbij. Xeber24 reported a similar civilian casualty toll that a woman and a child were injured. Al Etihad Media

Summary

Turkish Military

جب الكوسا, Jeb el Kussa, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

Twenty people were reported killed and 50 injured after clashes at Jeb el Kussa, south of Jarabulus. According to Al Alam “these people fell during battles between militants and extremist groups backed by Turkey and the so-called “democratic forces of Syria” and armed groups backed by America. The Syrian Observatory confirmed casualties in the ranks of

Summary

(2 children2 women)

US-led Coalition, Turkish Military

تل أبيض, Tal Abyad, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

Between two and four civilians were killed and up to 12 others were injured in alleged Syrian Democratic Forces airstrikes/drone strikes/shelling of Tal Abyad on June 1, 2022. @DeirEzzorNow tweeted the names of the victims: two brothers “Wassim and Bashar Al-Barhou“, Hajj “Abdi Al-Hamran”, Khaled Al-Halisi 34 years old, adding that in addition “several” were

Summary

Airstrike, Airstrike and/or Artillery, Drone Strike

2 – 4

(1–2 children1–2 men)

6–12

YPG

Belligerents reported killed

4 named

0–1

جسر السياسية, Al Siassah Bridge [exact location], Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

On Thursday, October 6, 2016, one civilian was killed and several others were injured when warplanes bombed Al-Siassah bridge over the Euphrates river in Deir Ez-Zawr, in eastern Syria. Reports cited both Coalition and Russian forces, although CENTCOM reported the destruction of two supply routes in Deir Ezzor for October 5th-6th. Sham News Network reported

Summary

(1 man)

US-led Coalition, Russian Military

1 named

الجوف, Jawf, Al Jawf, Yemen

LOCATION

Four AQAP militants were killed in a confirmed CIA drone strike on Jawf, reports said. There are currently no reports of civilian harm from this strike. Anwar al Awlaki, the US-born cleric, apparently became the first US citizen to be deliberately killed by the CIA in a drone strike, part of Operation Troy. The attack

Summary

Airstrike, Drone Strike

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)

Known belligerent

US Forces

Known target

Geolocation

Province/governorate

Belligerents reported killed

تل أسود, Tall Aswad, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

Manbij Mother of All the World initially reported what it said were Coalition strikes on Tal Aswad, targeting a reservoir. In a subsequent report, it said a “massacre” had been committed “against two familes as a result of wrong information from the Kurdish units in the village.” It named four victims. A report by the

Summary

(3–5 children1 woman3 men)

7 – 9

11 named, 2 families identified

بليون, Balion, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

At least one civilian, a young man, was injured in alleged Russian or regime artillery shelling of the village of Balion on July 8, 2022. According to @SyriaCivilDefe, a young man was wounded in artillery shelling of the village of Balion by the regime and Russian forces. Civil Defense volunteers took the injured man to

Summary

Russian Military, Syrian Regime

المصارف, Mosul, Al Masarif, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

According to a single local source, four civilians were killed in an alleged coalition strike on Al Masarif, Mosul. Yaqein reported that three children and a male civilian were killed in the northeast Al Masarif neighborhood of Mosul. The attacks severely damaged houses and shops in the neighbourhood.

Summary

(3 children1 man)

اعزاز, A'zaaz, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

At least one civilian, a woman, was killed and two others were injured in alleged SDF or Syrian regime artillery and missile shelling of A’zaaz on July 25, 2022 According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a displaced woman was killed by missile shelling in the vicinity of a Turkish base in the A’zaaz

Summary

(1 woman)

باتبو, Batabo, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

A unilateral US airstrike on a Fatah al Sham leader may also have killed up to three members of his immediate family. The Syrian Observatory initially reported that “an unidentified plane – it’s not clear whether international coalition or Russian – targeted a car carrying several people near the town of Batabo in the western

Summary

(1 child1 woman)

أم روثة , Um Raotha, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

A woman and a man were reported injured as a result of YPG artillery shelling on Um Raotha in Jarablus, Aleppo on February 8th, 2021. The Syrian Civil Defense said that “a man and a woman were wounded, today, Monday, February 8th, as a result of artillery shelling of the Syrian Democratic Forces on civilian

Summary

برج حيدر, Burj Haidar, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

Four civilians, including a child, were reportedly injured in alleged YPG or Syrian regime artillery strikes on the village of Burj Haidar, Afrin governorate, on February 11th, 2020, according to SMART News. SMART reported that, according to the Syrian Civil Defence, “a child and three civilians were wounded in the village of Burj Haidar, located

Summary

YPG, Syrian Regime

الثورة‎, Tabaqah, al Thani, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

Four to five civilians were reported killed and ten injured in a Coalition airstrike on al Tabaqa. According to most sources a possible civilian woman, two men and two children died in the attack. According to ISIL’s media wing “a child and a woman and man [were] killed and 10 people injured as a result

Summary

4 – 5

(1 child1 woman1 man)

3 named, 1 familiy identified

تل ابيض, Tal Abyad , Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently reported that “a drone belonging to the SDF” struck Tal Abyad, injuring three civilians”. Yacoub Aljazrawi said on his Facebook page that the attack resulted in injury of three civilians including two women. He said Abdallah Al Fannash and his was Fatim Al Hanoush were injured, in additionIssa Mustafa Al

Summary

Syrian Democratic Forces

3 named, 1 familiy identified

حي سومر, Mosul, Sumer, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

Local sources said civilians were killed and injured after Coalition Apache helicopters targeted a market in Sumer neighborhood, southeast of Mosul, with machine guns. On the same day, a young man named as Mostafa al Lahibi was reported killed by unspecified shells in the same neighbourhood.

Summary

الباب, Al Bab, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

Between nine to seventeen civilians were killed, including five to six children, and 26 to 42 others were injured, including eleven children, as a result of missile fire which hit a “crowded” marketplace and residential homes and a school in Al Bab city, Aleppo, Syria, on August 19th 2022. The missile fire was an alleged

Summary

Airstrike and/or Artillery

Civilian infrastructure

IDP or refugee camp, Marketplace, School

9 – 17

(5–6 children)

26–42

Syrian Regime, YPG

45 named, 1 familiy identified

Geolocation

Exact location (via Airwars)

شارع تل أبيض, Tal abyad Street, Ar Raqqa, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

Two civilians were killed – including a girl and a man – and others were wounded, following an airstrike on a bakery and a falafel restaurant in Raqqa, according to local sources. Sources were conflicted regarding who was to blame, some blaming the US led Coalition, and others blaming Russian warplanes. The Coalition later denied

Summary

(1 child1 man)

US-led Coalition, Russian Military

2 named

البصيرة, Bisira, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

At least one civilian, a child, was killed and his father was injured in an alleged airdrop operation by the Coalition and the SDF in the city of Bisira on February 8, 2022. A tweet from @DeirEzzorNow reported that the International Coalition and HAT forces carried out a landing operation in the city of Bisira that

Summary

Counter-Terrorism Action (Ground)

1 – 2

(1 child1 man)

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions, Small arms and light weapons

Causes of injury / death

Geolocation

Town

Wadi Hajjar, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

Three civilians were reportedly injured by ISF (or possibly Coalition) mortars according to eyewitness interviews by Amnesty International. A previously unpublished assessment which Amnesty shared with Airwars reads as follows: “On 25 January an ISF mortar [Airwars note: presumed – but possibly US, see below] landed on their house in Wadi Hajjar and caused it

Summary

US-led Coalition, Iraq Government Forces

رويشد, Ruwaished, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

A young man was killed during an airdrop operation allegedly carried out by the Coalition and Syrian Democratic Forces in the village of Al Ruwaished on November 3, 2022. Euphrates Post reported that a young man named Muhannad Ibrahim al-Khalaf was killed during a raid carried out by the SDF at dawn in the village of

Summary

Counter-Terrorism Action (Ground)

(1 man)

Small arms and light weapons

الحضر, Hatra, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

Local sources said that three children and a woman were killed and and five other people were injured after Coalition airstrikes targeted the Hatra region, south of Mosul. Yaqein said its sources added that “the bombing also caused significant damage to a number of civilian houses in the affected areas.” While all sources blamed the

Summary

(3 children1 woman)

US-led Coalition, Iraq Government Forces

Безруки, Bezruky, Kharkiv, Ukraine

LOCATION

One civilian was reportedly killed as a result of Russian forces’ shelling of the village of Bezruky, in Kharkiv on February 26th 2022. A Russian BMP, an infantry fighting vehicle, was reportedly abandoned and destroyed. This assessment has reference to ACLED code UKR54063 and Bellingcat code CIV0174.

Summary

حي الدرعية, Dir'iya, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

A single source, Smart, reported the deaths of three civilians including one woman and the injury of six others in an alleged Coalition airstrike on the Dir’iyta neighbourhood of Raqqa. According to Smart, “a local source in the town of Raqqa said that two men and a woman were killed and six others seriously injured

Summary

(1 woman)