Incident date
March 23, 2016
LOCATION
تدمر, Palmyra, Homs, SyriaOne young adult male civilian died in an airstrike on Palmyra according to local sources, though reports are conflicted as to whether this was the work of Russia or the Assad regime. Qasioun reported: Palmyra City was the target this morning of intensive raids by Russian aviation, amounting to about 35 strikes, in which aircraft
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Incident date
March 23, 2016
LOCATION
دير الزور, Deir ez-Zor, Deir Ezzor, SyriaTen civilians including four children died in airstrikes on Deir ez-Zor, according to local sources. Most reports blame the Assad regime. Shaam News said the strikes had been carried out by “Syrian and Russian planes”. It reported 20 injured non-combatants in addition to the ten killed. However, both Step News Agency and Baladi said that
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Incident date
March 22, 2016
LOCATION
Mosul, University of Mosul residencies, Nineveh, IraqIn a fresh day of reported Coalition airstrikes on Mosul University, local sources said three university professors and some of their families were killed and many other civilians wounded, after jets hit academic residences. Up to 15 Daesh fighters also reportedly died. Heavy Coalition activity above the city was reported from dawn onwards. Yagen was
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Incident date
March 19, 2016
LOCATION
الثقافية, Mosul, cultural group area, Nineveh, IraqAt least 15 civilians were claimed killed alongside 40 or more Daesh fighters, in an alleged Coalition air raid on Mosul. NRN News first flashed at around noon local time “the fall of dozens of civilians by bombings on both sides of the city. More soon.” In a later bulletin, the news agency said the
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Incident date
March 19, 2016
LOCATION
الرقة, Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, SyriaIn a second day of airstrikes on Raqqa, 43 civilians were reported killed and 60 injured – though sources are conflicted as to whether this was the work of Russia or the Assad regime – with one report suggesting this may be a Coalition incident. The Daesh agency Al A’maq said there had been nine
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Incident date
March 19, 2016
LOCATION
مسكنة, Maskanah, Aleppo, SyriaAccording to two sources – Syria_Omar and Syrian Press Center – two power station workers died in a strike on plant in Maskanah. Syria_Omar reported: “Warplanes launched 12 air strikes on the city of Maskaneh on Saturday, resulting in the deaths of workers of the power plant in the city after the station targeted by
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Incident date
March 19, 2016
LOCATION
الرقة, Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, SyriaIn a second day of airstrikes on Raqqa, 43 civilians were reported killed and 60 injured – though sources are conflicted as to whether this was the work of Russia or the Assad regime – with one report suggesting this may be a Coalition incident. The Daesh agency Al A’maq said there had been nine
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Incident date
March 19, 2016
LOCATION
القيارة, Qayarrah, Nineveh, IraqAccording to a field investigation conducted by reporters Azmah Khan and Anand Gopal for the New York Times, seven civilian were killed and one injured by a Coalition airstrike on a railway station in Qayyarah. The two journalists provided Airwars with the following: “According to our reporting, the following occurred: When ISIS left a mortar
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Incident date
March 18, 2016
LOCATION
الحويجة, Hawijah, Kirkuk, IraqUp to 41 civilians were allegedly killed and 53 injured in an airstrike on Hawijah which was said to have struck the city’s main market and hospital. The Daesh-linked Al A’amaq Agency initially reported the “Killing of four [civilians] and the wounding of 10 – most of them women and children – in an air
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Incident date
March 18, 2016
LOCATION
تلبيسة, Talbisah, Homs, SyriaOne civilian died in Talbisah while trying to defuse a Russian cluster bomb, according to multiple sources. Other reports said that both Russian strikes and regime artillery shelling killed a number of other civilians, though didn’t specify numbers. According to the Syrian Network for Human Rights, Houssien Abdul Kareem Al Deheik, a 38-year-old trainer in
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Incident date
March 18, 2016
LOCATION
الرقة, Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, SyriaBetween 15 and 20 civilians including up to eight children and five women died in airstrikes on Ar Raqqah, according to multiple local sources – though reports were conflicted as to whether this was the work of Russia or the Assad regime – with one source suggesting the warplanes responsible may have belonged to the
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Incident date
March 18, 2016
LOCATION
بنغازي, Benghazi, LibyaIn a separate incident to LC027, the LNA reported that it targeted ‘terrorist operation rooms’ with MiG-21s and MiG-23s in Qawarsheh. It also said it sunk two rafts 150 West of Benghazi at 22:45 and a vessel at 03:25. At 04:55 another vessel was reportedly targeted and destroyed.
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Incident date
March 18, 2016
LOCATION
شواطئ بنغازي, Benghazi Shoreline, Benghazi, LibyaThe LNA targeted a marine trailer reportedly carrying 10 tanks, 3 containers of ammunition and a number of vehicles off the shores of Benghazi at around 03:00 according to its Facebook page. In an apparent maritime version of a double tap strike, the LNA further reported that other boats then tried to save the people
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Incident date
March 17, 2016
LOCATION
محيميدة, Mahimideh, Deir Ezzor, SyriaOne child, Hozaifa Hasan al Enaizan, from the village of Tabya Shameih was killed in an alleged Russian airstrike on Mahimideh, Deir ez-Zour, according to the Violations Documentation Center. Deir Ezzor is Being Slaughtered Silently reported that he died after the explosion of a cluster bomb left from a previous Russian bombing. Four other sources
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Incident date
March 15, 2016
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باب لكش, Mosul, Bab Laksh, Nineveh, IraqLocal sources said at least four and as many as 13 civilians were killed and 25 injured including children and women after alliance jets struck residential apartments used by displaced people in the Alaymen district of eastern Mosul. The National Iraqi News Agency reported: “residents said that international coalition aircraft bombed a residential compound belonging
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Incident date
March 15, 2016
LOCATION
الهواري, Al-Hawary, Benghazi, LibyaThe LNA posted a video of a helicopter squadron targeting alleged terrorists. The video depicts people caught in explosions, and vehicles and buildings suffering damage. However the combatant status of those hit is unclear.
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Incident date
March 14, 2016
LOCATION
جكة, Jakka, Aleppo, SyriaA single source, the Daesh-linked propaganda outlet Al A’amaq Media, reported an alleged ‘friendly fire’ event in the village of al Jakka: “An American plane carries out a raid by mistake on a position for the armed opposition on the outskirts of the village of Jakka in the northern Aleppo countryside, leading to deaths in
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Incident date
March 13, 2016
LOCATION
أبو قلقل, Abu Qalqal, Aleppo, SyriaTwo civilians were reported killed in an airstrike on the town of Abu Kalkal. Opinion was split as to whether the attack was Russian, Coalition or Syrian regime in origin. Daesh-linked Al A’amaq Media, the Syrian Observatory, the Syrian Network, the Syrian Human Rights Committee, Shaam News and al Hall Media all said the attack
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Incident date
March 13, 2016
LOCATION
دوما, Douma, Damascus, SyriaAt least one child was killed in Douma according to local sources – though reports are conflicted as to whether this was a Russian airstrike or the result of regime artillery. Shaam News, reported: “Russian planes carried out raids on Douma neighbourhoods which was preceeded by artillery shelling. One civilian was killed and others were
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Incident date
March 13, 2016
LOCATION
حي الصالحين, Salheen (Aleppo), Aleppo, SyriaBetween five and ten civilians died and 10 more were injured in an airstrike on Al Salheen which violated a ceasefire, according to local sources – though reports are conflicted as to whether this was the work of Russia or the regime. Janobia reported that Russian raids on Al Salheen killed 10 civilians and wounded
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Incident date
March 13, 2016
LOCATION
كفرنبل, Kafr Nabil, Idlib, SyriaOne adult male civilian may have died in an airstrike on Kafr Nabil, according to two local sources. The VDC listed Jameel al Ekel as a victim of a Russian strike but says the victim is from Kafr Nabil, and doesn’t state where he was killed. Fresh News reports the same victim killed “in warplane
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Incident date
March 13, 2016
LOCATION
السخنة, As Sukhnah, Homs, SyriaBetween seven and eight civilians including three children and one or two women died in alleged Russian airstrikes on Sukhna, according to local sources. Shaam News reported that eight civilians including were killed and more than 10 others injured on alleged Russian raids on Sukhna. SNN added: “The co-ordinating city of Palmyra said that in
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Incident date
March 12, 2016
LOCATION
Al Mashlab, Raqqa, SyriaAccording to Al A’amaq Media – linked to Daesh – “A child and his father were killed in a raid by an unmanned American plane on the outskirts of Raqqa city.” No other sources in the city reported civilian casualties. However Raqqa is Being Slaughtered did note that “An unmanned plane targets a Daesh pickup
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Incident date
March 12, 2016
LOCATION
تدمر, Palmyra, Homs, SyriaThe Violations Documentation Center listed one unidentified woman as a victim of an alleged Russian airstrikes on Palmyra. No further details are currently available.
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Incident date
March 12, 2016
LOCATION
ماضي, Maadi, Aleppo, SyriaTwo civilians including one woman died in an alleged Russian airstrike on Maadi, Aleppo, according to local sources. Ana Press reported that a Russian strike “resulted in casualties and injuries among civilians and massive destruction of the residential buildings”. The victims were also named by Syrian Human Rights Committee and other sources.
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Incident date
March 11, 2016
LOCATION
تدمر, Palmyra, Homs, SyriaOne 14-year-old girl, Nour Ahmad al Abdulla ‘al Najm’, was killed in an alleged Russian airstrike on Hazm farms, according to the Violations Documentation Center. No further details are currently available.
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Incident date
March 11, 2016
LOCATION
السخنة, As Sukhnah, Homs, SyriaBetween 15 and 19 civilians died in an alleged airstrikes on a public bus in Palmyra, according to local sources. According to Alarby, Homs Media Center and Shaam News, 15 died and 20 more were injured when Russian warplanes targeted a bus on the road from Palmyra to Raqqa. Eldorar reported that Russia continued to
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Incident date
March 11, 2016
LOCATION
تدمر, Palmyra, Homs, SyriaSeveral civilians died in an alleged Russian airstrike on Palmyra, according to local sources. Al Jazeera reported that “a number of people were killed, including women and children, as a result of dozens of continuous Russian air raids days ago on residential neighborhoods and archaeological city. others were injured in the city of Palmyra in
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Incident date
March 11, 2016
LOCATION
تدمر, Palmyra, Homs, SyriaAccording to the Shaam News Network: “four people were killed when Russian enemy planes targeted a civilian transport vehicle on the road from Palmyra to Deir Ezzor.” The Syrian Network for Human Rights also reported that “four people were killed from the same family when the Russian warplane targeted their truck (which is a refrigerated
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Incident date
March 11, 2016
LOCATION
الجنينة, Al Jneina, Deir Ezzor, SyriaBetween two and six civilians including one woman and one girl died when the remains of a bombed exploded in the village of Al Jneina. The Violations Documentation Center listed two unidentified adult male victims, and said that they died from an explosion of remnants of a cluster bombed that had been dropped by Russia.