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Incident Date

26 April 2015

Incident Code

CS064

Location

متراس, Mitras, Aleppo, Syria
Reported Coalition airstrikes at 11 am on the village of Mitras killed three civilians, according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights.  These were identified as an adult male, a teenager and a child. This event bears a resemblance to an April 19th incident at the same location (CS063) in that the victims are from…

Summary

Published
26 April 2015
Civilians reported killed
3
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

24 April 2015

Incident Code

LQ007a

Location

سرت‎, Sirte, Surt, Libya
Dawa Alhaq reported a GNC/Libya Dawn airstrike in Sirte likely resulting in civilian harm: “A military aircraft belonging to the ‘Dawn of Libya’ militia, backed by Libya’s brothers who control Tripoli, launched air strikes on Thursday night on sites in the city of Sirte. ‘A Libyan warplane launched several air strikes on the sites of…

Summary

Published
24 April 2015
Military Actor
General National Congress (GNC)
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Incident Date

22 April 2015

Incident Code

CI064

Location

الموصل‎, Mosul, Bareed, Nineveh, Iraq
At least four civilians died in a Coalition airstrike on the Bareed quarter of Mosul. A home was completely destroyed in the event, killing four members of one family. One report also named a fifth family member, a young disabled girl named Sadra (cousin to Abdullah) as being killed. However as the Fiscal Times noted,…

Summary

Published
22 April 2015
Civilians reported killed
4
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

21 April 2015

Incident Code

CI063

Location

الموصل‎, Mosul, East, Nineveh, Iraq
A claimed coalition airstrike on the centre of Mosul killed up to 23 militants and five or more non-combatants according to reports, after four homes were destroyed. NINA cited a medical source as saying that 23 civilians died when aircraft struck the Mdaana neighbourhood – though this appears to be a mis-cite of other casualties…

Summary

Published
21 April 2015
Civilians reported killed
5–9
Civilians reported injured
12
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

20 April 2015

Incident Code

CI060

Location

الموصل‎, Mosul, Aden, Nineveh, Iraq
A reported Coalition airstrike on an electricity generating facility reportedly killed up tp 35 civilians and injured 22 more when nearby apartments were caught in the blast, according to reports. The US led Coalition later conceded 18 deaths in this event. At the time of the incident, NINA cited a medical source at the hospital…

Summary

Published
20 April 2015
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
18–35
Civilians reported injured
22–50
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

20 April 2015

Incident Code

CI061

Location

فايده, Fadhiliya, Nineveh, Iraq
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…

Summary

Published
20 April 2015
Civilians reported killed
5–11
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

Incident Code

CI062

Location

القيارة, near Qayyarah, Nineveh, Iraq

Summary

Published
20 April 2015
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

19 April 2015

Incident Code

CI059

Location

الرطبة, Ar Rutbah, Al Anbar, Iraq
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…

Summary

Published
19 April 2015
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

19 April 2015

Incident Code

CS063

Location

متراس, Mitras, Aleppo, Syria
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.“…

Summary

Published
19 April 2015
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
5
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

12 April 2015

Incident Code

CI058

Location

الحويجة, Hawijah, Kirkuk, Iraq
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…

Summary

Published
12 April 2015
Civilians reported killed
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

Incident Code

CI057

Location

الموصل‎, Mosul, Maydan neighborhood, Bab Lagash, Aqaydat, Wadi Hajar, Denden and Tayyaran, Nineveh, Iraq
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…

Summary

Published
8 April 2015
Civilians reported killed
11–15
Civilians reported injured
4
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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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 Date

1 April 2015

Incident Code

LQ007

Location

الزنتان, Zintan, Airport, Al Jabal al Gharbi, Libya
According to several local sources, GNC/Libya Dawn planes bombed Zintan airport as well as the nearby village of Rujban. Most sources reported material damage, though there was no mention of civilian harm. Zintan Airport spokesperson Omar Maatouk, speaking to Libya Herald, said that the front of the airport building was damaged by the seven shells…

Summary

Published
1 April 2015
Military Actor
General National Congress (GNC)
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Incident Date

29 March 2015

Incident Code

LC015a

Location

زوارة, Zuwara, An Nuqat al Khams, Libya
Two civilians were reported injured as a result of alleged LNA airstrikes in Zuwara. Abdo Kablan posted on Twitter that LNA planes bombed "Zuwara and Gharyan, thank god there are no dead but two wounded in the city of Zuwara." Other sources reported LNA airstrikes in the area but no civilian harm.

Summary

Published
29 March 2015
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
Libyan National Army
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Incident Date

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

24 March 2015

Incident Code

LC015

Location

ام الرشراش, Umm Al Rashrash, Marqab, Libya
An LNA airstrike reportedly hit a Libya Dawn camp in Tarhuna. While most sources reported no civilians and only a few Libya Dawn fighters dead, two sources said that eight internally displaced Tawergha were killed in the attack. Middle East Eye quoted a Libya Dawn spokesperson: “Eight Libyan civilians died in the strike. Sadly this…

Summary

Published
24 March 2015
Civilians reported killed
8
Military Actor
Libyan National Army
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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

14 March 2015

Incident Code

LC014a

Location

العسة, Al Assah, An Nuqat al Khams, Libya
On Saturday, March 14, 2015, one man named Alaa Belkhair was reported killed and six people were injured in an alleged Libyan National Army airstrike on Al Assah near Zuwara, northwestern Libya. Zuwara News wrote on Facebook that "an aeroplane just hit the Al-Assah area and resulted in the death of one man from Misurata…

Summary

Published
14 March 2015
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
6
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Libyan National Army
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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

12 March 2015

Incident Code

USSOM038

Location

Abaq Xaluul, Bay, Somalia
A US Special Forces drone strike allegedly killed Adan Garaar, a senior member of al Shabaab, according to the Pentagon and Somali and Kenyan officials. The attack reportedly destroyed one or two vehicles in southwestern Somalia, killing two other alleged members of the group. There are currently no reports of civilian harm from this strike.…

Summary

Published
12 March 2015
Strike Type
Airstrike (Drone Strike)
Military actors reported killed
3
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date

10 March 2015

Incident Code

USSOM037

Location

Tortoroow (and Ambereso), Lower Shabelle, Somalia
A single news source reported that “unidentified armed drones” targeted two alleged al Shabaab camps. Witnesses said the attacks hit camps in the towns of Torato and Ambereso. The regional governor Abdikadir Mohamed Nur confirmed the strikes but said the death toll had not been confirmed, although the terror group had sustained "human and material…

Summary

Published
10 March 2015
Strike Type
Airstrike (Drone Strike)
Military actors reported killed
2
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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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

8 March 2015

Incident Code

CS061

Location

اطمه, Atimah, Idlib, Syria
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…

Summary

Published
8 March 2015
Civilians reported killed
5–6
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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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…

Summary

Published
8 March 2015
Civilians reported killed
2–15
Civilians reported injured
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

6 March 2015

Incident Code

CS060

Location

مشفى عائشة الخيري, البوكمال, Abu Kamal, al Aisha Hospital, Deir Ezzor, Syria
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…

Summary

Published
6 March 2015
Civilians reported killed
4–6
Civilians reported injured
4
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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