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Incident Date
17–19 December, 2016
Incident Code
TS026
Location
الباب, Al Bab, Aleppo, Syria
The ISIS propaganda outlet Al A'amaq reported that 22 civilians were killed and 53 injured as a result of Turkish artillery shelling and airstrike in Al Bab, Syria. It wrote: "22 dead and 53 injured among the residents of Al Bab who fell over the last two days following Turkish artillery and aerial bombardment." There…
Summary
Published
17 December 2016
Civilians reported killed
22
Civilians reported injured
53
Military Actor
Turkish Military
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Incident Date
17 December 2016
Incident Code
CI374
Location
الموصل, Mosul, Farouk and other neighbourhoods, Nineveh, Iraq
More than 40 civilians were reported killed or injured due to shelling inside Mosul. Naynawaalghad TV cited what it said were medical sources in Mosul, who told the outlet that 41 civilians were killed or wounded as a result of artillery fire from an unknown source. The outlet noted that residents were forced to bury…
Summary
Published
17 December 2016
Civilians reported killed
2
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
17 December 2016
Incident Codes
CS417 TS025
Location
الباب, Al-Bab, Aleppo, Syria
Three unnamed civilian males were reported killed in a Turkish (or less likely Coalition) action at al Bab. The Coalition later denied responsibility. According to Step News, “Turkish planes targeted al Bab, east of Aleppo, with three raids and there are news about casualties.” VDC later reported three unidentfied male civilian deaths – though said…
Summary
Published
17 December 2016
Civilians reported killed
3
Military Actor
Turkish Military
,
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
16 December 2016
Incident Code
LC054
Location
قنفودة, Benghazi, Benghazi, Libya
Up to two civilians died and as many as three more were wounded in an alleged UAE airstrike on a residential area in Ganfouda, Benghazi, local media reported. Alnabaa tweeted that “a source from Ganfouda said the two were killed in a foreign bombing of a family home in the area”. According to Emhona “a…
Summary
Published
16 December 2016
Civilians reported killed
0–2
Civilians reported injured
1–3
Military Actor
LNA/UAE Military/Egyptian Military
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Incident Date
16 December 2016
Incident Code
CS415
Location
الشدادي, Shadadi, Al Hassakah, Syria
Sixteen child soldiers were killed in Coalition airstrikes at al Shadadi, according to a local source.
Summary
Published
16 December 2016
Civilians reported killed
0–16
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
16 December 2016
Incident Codes
CS416 TS024
Location
الباب, Al-Bab, Aleppo, Syria
Between eleven and 15 civilians were reported killed in a Turkish (or less likely Coalition) action at al Bab. According to LCCSY eleven civilians died, “most of them killed in Coalition raids on al Bab.”However, the source had consistently denied civilian harm from Turkish actions during the al-Bab campaign. Al Bab News reported “more than…
Summary
Published
16 December 2016
Civilians reported killed
11–15
Civilians reported injured
12–24
Military Actor
Turkish Military
,
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
15 December 2016
Incident Code
TS023
Location
الباب, Al Bab, Aleppo, Syria
The ISIS-affiliated media propaganda outlet Al A'amaq reported one civilian dead and others injured as a result of a Turkish bombardment of Al Bab. It wrote: "One person killed and eight injured following Turkish bombardment targeting al Bab in the Aleppo countryside this afternoon." There are no other known details at this time.
Summary
Published
15 December 2016
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
8
Military Actor
Turkish Military
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Incident Date
15 December 2016
Incident Code
CI373
Location
أحياء النور والفلاح والقدس شر, Mosul, Northeast, Nineveh, Iraq
More than a dozen civilians – and possibly more than 40 – were reported killed in eastern Mosul. Yaqein reported that 15 civilians were killed by a missile on the east side of Mosul, all from the same family – though a source it cited put the death toll lower, at 12. It did not…
Summary
Published
15 December 2016
Civilians reported killed
12–40
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
14 December 2016
Incident Code
RS1791
Location
المشهد, Al Mashad, Aleppo, Aleppo, Syria
Up to ten people were injured in an air and artillery strike which struck a residential neighbourhood in Al Mashed, Aleppo. Sources were conflicted as to who was to blame. One attributed blame to both Russia and Syrian regime artillery. The other two remained impartial. There were no specific numbers of killed reported, however, the Step…
Summary
Published
14 December 2016
Civilians reported killed
0–2
Civilians reported injured
10
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
14 December 2016
Incident Code
RS1792
Location
الزبدية, Al Zibdiya, Aleppo, Aleppo, Syria
An unspecified number of civilians were reported as killed and wounded following an alleged air and artillery strike in Al Zibdiya, Aleppo. Two sources blamed Russian warplanes, whereas all others remained impartial. Step News Agency reported "Russian warplanes targeted with cluster bombs and missiles the Aleppo neighbourhoods of Al Zabadia, al Mashad, Salahudin, al Sukkari,…
Summary
Published
14 December 2016
Civilians reported killed
0–2
Civilians reported injured
0–2
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
14 December 2016
Incident Code
TS022
Location
الباب, Al Bab, Aleppo, Syria
Several sources reported the targeting of civilian infrastructure by Turkish warplanes in Al Bab, Syria. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights wrote: "Turkish warplanes targeted the national hospital in the city of Bab in the north-eastern Aleppo countryside with several strikes, which is controlled by the Islamic State. No information about casualties so far." Khaled…
Summary
Published
14 December 2016
Civilians reported killed
0–2
Civilians reported injured
0–2
Military Actor
Turkish Military
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Incident Date
14 December 2016
Incident Code
CI372
Location
حي السكر, Mosul, Sukkar, Nineveh, Iraq
Four civilians were reportedly killed in an alleged Coalition strike on al Sukkar, survivors told the US news magazine Buzzfeed. The alliance later accepted responsibility for the incident. Buzzfeed met with survivors in mid-2017, with the outlet later sharing its incident notes with Airwars: Eyewitness told journalist Mike Giglio when he met him at his…
Summary
Published
14 December 2016
Civilians reported killed
4
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
13 December 2016
Incident Code
CI371
Location
حي السكر, Mosul, Sukkar, Nineveh, Iraq
According to local sources, up to 17 people were killed as a result of airstrikes on their homes in the Sukkar (Sugar) district, Mosul. The bodies were pulled from the rubble on January 8th, 2017. Airwars contacted the Canadian-based elder brother of the family, who provided 11 names, photos and ages of eleven victims. All…
Summary
Published
13 December 2016
Civilians reported killed
11–17
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
12 December 2016
Incident Code
RS1789
Location
عقيربات, Akeirbat, Hama, Syria
In a major civilian casualty incident widely reported as a sarin gas attack, between 20 and 102 civilians, including women and between five and 28 children, were killed and between 100 to 500 civilians were injured in airstrikes against the village of Akeirbat in the eastern suburb of Hama, according to local media. Sources were…
Summary
Published
12 December 2016
Civilians reported killed
20–102
Civilians reported injured
100–500
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
12 December 2016
Incident Code
RS1786
Location
تدمر, Palmyra , Homs, Syria
Up to five civilians were reportedly killed in shelling on Palmyra, according to local media. The source, Al Natek, reported that there was "heavy shelling targeting the city of Douma by Russian aviation". A later report from the same source stated that an "Al Jazeera correspondent reported that five were dead and a number wounded…
Summary
Published
12 December 2016
Civilians reported killed
5
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
12 December 2016
Incident Code
TS021
Location
البزاعة, Al Baza'a, Aleppo, Syria
Five civilians from one family were reported killed as a result of Turkish artillery shelling in Al Baza'a, according to a single source. The ISIS propaganda outlet Al A'amaq wrote: "a family of five killed following Turkish shelling on Baza’a near al Bab northeast of Aleppo." There are no other known details available at this…
Summary
Published
12 December 2016
Civilians reported killed
5
Military Actor
Turkish Military
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Incident Date
12 December 2016
Incident Code
RS1790
Location
كفر يحمول, Kafr Yahmoul, Idlib, Syria
As many as two civilians were killed, and three others were wounded, in an airstrike which struck Kafr Yahmoul, Idlib, local media reported. Most sources blamed Russian warplanes for the alleged raid, with some others not attributing any blame for the airstrikes, and simply reporting on warplane bombing. According to some sources, the victim was…
Summary
Published
12 December 2016
Civilians reported killed
1–2
Civilians reported injured
3
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
12 December 2016
Incident Code
RS1787
Location
داعل, Dael, Daraa, Syria
An adult male died on the 16th of December 2016, due to wounds sustained on the 12th in an alleged Russian bombing of Dael. One source blames Russian warplanes and the others do not identify the aircraft. There are no other details at this time.
Summary
Published
12 December 2016
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
12 December 2016
Incident Codes
CS413 TS020
Location
الباب, Al-Bab, Aleppo, Syria
Twelve civilians were killed and up to 30 injured at al Bab in what local sources claimed was a ‘Coalition’ strike, but which may have been a result of Turkish-ISIS fighting. Al A'maq, ISIS’s media wing, reported “12 dead and 30 injured, most of them women and children, following violent Turkish shelling with more than…
Summary
Published
12 December 2016
Civilians reported killed
12
Civilians reported injured
20–30
Military Actor
Turkish Military
,
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
12 December 2016
Incident Codes
CS414 RS1788
Location
الرقة, al Dalla roundabout, Raqqa, Syria
A heavy air raid on Ar Raqqah left up to 36 civilians dead according to multiple reports. While most blamed Russia, there were some claims that the US-led Coalition was responsible. It has since denied involvement. According to Raqqa is Being Slaughtered, the afternoon raids were concentrated mainly near the city’s al Dalla roundabout. Euphrates…
Summary
Published
12 December 2016
Civilians reported killed
18–36
Civilians reported injured
12–60
Military Actor
Russian Military
,
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
12 December 2016
Incident Code
CI370
Location
حي الفلاح, Mosul, al Falah, Nineveh, Iraq
According to survivors, eight civilians died in a reported 2 pm following an alleged Coalition strike on Hay al Falah. Buzzfeed journalist Mike Giglio met with survivors in Mosul in early 2017. he provided this account to Airwars: Eight civilian relatives of Nawal Fathi Khala, born 1954, also known as Um Ghassan. Leg wounds to…
Summary
Published
12 December 2016
Civilians reported killed
8
Civilians reported injured
5
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
11 December 2016
Incident Code
RS1783
Location
قرية عرفة, Arafeih, Hama, Syria
At least one child was killed and another child was injured from the explosion of a cluster bomb that was left behind by alleged Russian airstrikes a few months prior in the village of Arafeih in eastern Hama, according to local media. The child killed from the cluster bomb was a 12-year-old boy; his brother…
Summary
Published
11 December 2016
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
1
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
11 December 2016
Incident Code
CI368
Location
حي الفلاح, Mosul, Falah, Nineveh, Iraq
Eight to eleven civilians – including five children and 8 members of the same family – were killed by Coalition strikes in Mosul, according to local sources. According to Iraqi Spring, eight civilians from one family, including four children and two women were killed in Coalition airstrikes in the Al-Falah neighbourhood of eastern Mosul. Several…
Summary
Published
11 December 2016
Civilians reported killed
8–12
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
11 December 2016
Incident Code
CI369
Location
النور والتأميم, Mosul, Noor and Ta’mim, Nineveh, Iraq
Fifteen civilians were reported killed in fighting between ISIL and Iraqi forces. Said Noor Ahmed Halbusi, a doctor at a field hospital, told Anadolu he had received 15 bodies, including seven from one family. The civilians were killed in fighting between Iraqi forces and ISIL inside Mosul it said. Yaqein reported the same figures but…
Summary
Published
11 December 2016
Civilians reported killed
15
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
11 December 2016
Incident Code
CS411
Location
خشام, Khusham, Deir Ezzor, Syria
Up to eleven civilians died in a Coalition airstrike which at the time was also blamed on Russia and the Assad regime. However the Coalition has confirmed striking oil installations and tankers in the vicinity on this date, and killing five drivers. According to Ara News, “Unidentified warplanes shelling oil refineries in Badeyet Kisham killed…
Summary
Published
11 December 2016
Civilians reported killed
5–11
Civilians reported injured
15
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
11 December 2016
Incident Code
CS412
Location
الكور, Al Kour, Raqqa, Syria
Reports emerged on December 15th of an alleged Coalition airstrike on the village of al Kour which killed three civilians. However the original source for the claim suggested that the event took place two days earlier. According to Abd al Basset Ahmad al Khalaf, head of the political committee for local Syrian tribes, Habib al…
Summary
Published
11 December 2016
Civilians reported killed
3
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
11 December 2016
Incident Code
RS1784
Location
Sarqib, Idlib, Syria
A girl was seriously wounded in an alleged Russian and Syrian regime raid on Sarqib, Aleppo. Sources were conflicted as to who was to blame, some attributing responsibility to Russia and others the Syrian regime. According to a source the girl was trapped under the rubble for eight hours. She died of her wounds on the…
Summary
Published
11 December 2016
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
11 December 2016
Incident Code
RS1785
Location
دوما, Douma, Damascus, Damascus, Syria
Up to six civilians, including two children, were killed and as many as 24 more were wounded following air or artillery or mortar strikes targeting Douma, Damascus, local sources reported. Sources, however, were unclear as to whether Russia or the Syrian regime carried out the strikes. Sources reported the death of between one and six…
Summary
Published
11 December 2016
Civilians reported killed
1–6
Civilians reported injured
20–24
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
10 December 2016
Incident Code
RS1781
Location
جسر الحج, Jisr al-Haj, Aleppo, Aleppo, Syria
Between one and four civilians were killed and several more were wounded by air or artillery strikes, carried out by either Russia or the Syrian regime, on Jisr Al Haj, Aleppo, local sources reported. Most sources reported the death of one man, while others merely referred to "several" victims. Halab News gave the highest death…
Summary
Published
10 December 2016
Civilians reported killed
1–4
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
10 December 2016
Incident Code
RS1782
Location
بِنِّش, Binnish, Idlib, Syria
In this major event, local sources reported that alleged Russian airstrikes killed between zero and 15 civilians, including three children, and wounded up to 24, as they struck the city of Binnish, Idlib. While Qasioun News said that there were no reports of casualties, the remaining sources reported up to 15 fatalities, including children. Eight…
Summary
Published
10 December 2016
Infrastructure
Education
Civilians reported killed
8–15
Civilians reported injured
2–24
Military Actor
Russian Military
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