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Incident Date
Incident Code
CI446
Location
Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq
الموصل
In an incident not previously known to Airwars researchers, the Coalition reported on March 4th that it was assessing an event at Mosul. According to the release “Currently, 19 reports of civilian casualties are still being assessed… Jan. 31, 2017, near Mosul, Iraq, via social media report.” No additional details are presently known.
Summary
Published
31 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
0–1
Civilians reported injured
0–1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
30 January 2017
Incident Code
CI445
Location
Mosul, Tanak, Nineveh, Iraq
حي التنك
It was reported that 11 civilians died in a Coalition airstrike at Tanak in western Mosul. The Coalition later admitted a US strike in the near area, noting in their April 2017 civilian casualty report that “During a strike on an ISIS weapons manufacturing facility, it was assessed that one civilian in the building was…
Summary
Published
30 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
1–11
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Code
CI443
Location
Mosul, Isilah Zeraei / Agragarian Reform, Nineveh, Iraq
الإصلاح الزراعي
Local sources said that seven civilians were killed and 19 others injured after Coalition airstrikes targeted a flour mill in the Agrarian Reform district at the right side of Mosul. Press sources had also reported that “the bombing caused considerable material damage to a number of civilian houses in the area (..)”
Summary
Published
29 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
7
Civilians reported injured
19
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
29 January 2017
Incident Code
CI444
Location
Al Qa'im, Al Anbar, Iraq
القائم
Local sources reported that a woman and a child were killed and 12 other civilians injured after Coalition raids had targeted the Husaybah area in Al Qa’im, in the west of Anbar province. Most sources said US aircraft had carried out the airstrikes, while one blamed the Coalition. However, no Coalition strikes were publicly eported…
Summary
Published
29 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
2
Civilians reported injured
12
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
29 January 2017
Incident Code
CI442
Location
Mosul, Farouk, Nineveh, Iraq
حي الفاروق
A local source said that a child was killed and his parents were injured in Coalition airstrikes on Farouk neighbourhood at the right side of Mosul. A government source told Yaqein that a four-year-old boy was killed and his parents seriously injured after an explosive missile was dropped from an aircraft near the al-Farouk neighbourhood,…
Summary
Published
29 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
26 January 2017
Incident Code
CI441
Location
Mosul, West / Right side, Nineveh, Iraq
Local sources said that 20 civilians were killed and 17 injured – mostly women and children – in Coalition airstrikes on residential areas at the right side of Mosul. Several sources reported that “US strikes” had targeted the neighbourhoods of Dawasa and Farouk, western Mosul.
Summary
Published
27 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
20
Civilians reported injured
17
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
26 January 2017
Incident Code
CI439
Location
Mosul, Dawassa area, Nineveh, Iraq
الدواسة
Baghdadia and Muez Al Ubiedi (Facebook) said that in the Wells and Dawasa neighborhoods two people were killed and fifteen wounded, mostly children. They blamed the US for the bombing. The Coalition has conceded the casualties. Al Rawed posted an Al A’Amaq [ISIL propaganda] video showing “the damage left behind by US aircraft [as it]…
Summary
Published
26 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
2
Civilians reported injured
15
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
27 January 2017
Incident Code
CI440
Location
Mosul: West, Nineveh, Iraq
There were claims that up to 34 civilians died and 20 or more were injured following Coalition or Iraqi strikes on western Mosul. The Iraqi Spring Media Center reported that airstrikes had targeted residential neighborhoods and killed 32 people, including women and children. Yaqein news also put the death toll at 32. Shebab newsagency said…
Summary
Published
26 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
27–32
Civilians reported injured
5–20
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
25 January 2017
Incident Code
CI438
Location
Wadi Hajjar, Nineveh, Iraq
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
Published
25 January 2017
Civilians reported injured
3
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
21 January 2017
Incident Code
CI437
Location
Al Qa'im, Al Anbar, Iraq
القائم
Local sources said that several people were killed in several alleged Coalition airstrikes on al Qaim city, west of Anbar. It was reported that Mustafa Hashim Mustafa Said Ahmed al-Rawi died as a result of the attack. News of Iraq said that “an entire family” died in the raids.
Summary
Published
21 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
2
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
21 January 2017
Incident Code
CI436
Location
Mosul, Al-Rashidiyah, Nineveh, Iraq
الرشيدية
Local sources said that Coalition airstrikes targeted a car-bomb and house in Al-Rashidiya neighborhood, in the northeast of Mosul. This also caused the death of 15 civilians, many of them women and children. Ajel Al Mosul reported that “international Coalition airstrikes targeted a car-bomb in Rashidiya area, causing the martyrdom of a man and his…
Summary
Published
21 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
15
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
19 January 2017
Incident Code
CI434
Location
Mosul, Alqosjat, Nineveh, Iraq
القوسيات
Press sources said that 34 civilians, including 21 children and a woman, were killed after airstrikes and artillery shelling targeted the neighborhoods on the left side of Mosul. A local hospital doctor told Alaraby that “nine dead [bodies] just arrived at the hospital, while the others are still under the rubble”.
Summary
Published
19 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
34
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
19 January 2017
Incident Code
CI435
Location
Mosul, Rifai, Nineveh, Iraq
الرفاعي
Local sources said 14 civilians were killed and 6 injured, mostly children and women, in Coalition airstrikes that had targeted their homes in Rifai neighbourhood northwest of Mosul. Iraqi Spring Media Center said that seven children, four women and three men were killed as a result of the bombing on their homes. On March 4th…
Summary
Published
19 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
14
Civilians reported injured
6
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
18 January 2017
Incident Code
CI433
Location
Al Zab, Kirkuk, Iraq
الزاب
Multiple sources said that dozens of civilians were killed or injured when a Coalition airstrike hit a health center, a power station and a market in Zab town, southwest of Kirkuk. Raedlay posted a video showing the aftermath of the strikes and the destruction of the health center. Correspondences Team said that four strikes had…
Summary
Published
18 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
2–12
Civilians reported injured
2–12
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
Incident Code
CI432
Location
Mosul, Al-Najjar, Nineveh, Iraq
حي النجار
Local sources said that up to 14 people, mostly from one family, were killed when a Coalition airstrike targeted the house of Khalil Ekrb at 3pm in Al-Najjar neighborhood, near Hawi, in the northwest of Mosul. Iraqyoon said the raids had targeted ISIL members in front of the house, but that the bombing “did not…
Summary
Published
18 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
14
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
17 January 2017
Incident Code
CI431
Location
Mosul, Al-Rashidiyah, Nineveh, Iraq
الرشيدية
Summary
Published
17 January 2017
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
Incident Code
CI430
Location
Mosul, Al-Rashidiyah, Nineveh, Iraq
الرشيدية
A local source said that many civilians were killed or injured by Coalition airstrikes on Rashidiyah neighborhood in the north east of Mosul. Iraqi Turkmen Front Mosul reported that their bodies were still under the rubble. It made appeal to the international Coalition “not to target civilians through inaccurate air raids or indiscriminate shelling of…
Summary
Published
17 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
2
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
17 January 2017
Incident Code
CI428
Location
Mosul, 7 Nisan (April) or Baysan, Nineveh, Iraq
الصديق الثانيه
Local sources said that six civilians were killed and eight injured due to Coalition airstrikes on Baysan neighborhood, in the northeast of Mosul. Relatives of the dead later said that eight had in fact died, all from the family of Qasan Abdul Kadir and including four children. According to Yaqein and News of Iraq, the…
Summary
Published
17 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
8
Civilians reported injured
8
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
17 January 2017
Incident Code
CI429
Location
Mosul, Al-Shafaa, Nineveh, Iraq
الشفاء
Local sources said that more than 30 civilians were killed or injured by an air or drone strike on a funeral in al Shifa, and in other neighborhoods west of Mosul. Iraqyoon quoted witnesses saying that “aircraft had bombed a funeral for the Sangaree family in Shifa neighborhood, at the right side of Mosul”. People…
Summary
Published
17 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
8–21
Civilians reported injured
11–22
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
16 January 2017
Incident Code
CI427
Location
Mosul, West / Right side, Nineveh, Iraq
Local sources said that many civilians were killed or injured in Coalition airstrikes and shelling by Iraqi forces, in neigbourhoods at the left side of Mosul. The Iraqi Spring Media Center had tracked the bombings “from dawn until now” and said the raids targeted residential neighbourhoods. It said that hundreds of civilians were fleeing.
Summary
Published
16 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
2
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
16 January 2017
Incident Code
LQ039
Location
port, Darnah, Libya
درنة
An aircraft reportedly struck a boat allegedly belonging to the local militia Saraya Al-Dajjal off the coast of Derna. The status of any civilian crew on board is currently unknown.
Summary
Published
16 January 2017
Military Actor
Libyan National Army
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Incident Date
15 January 2017
Incident Code
CI426
Location
Mosul, Mosul al-Jadid / New Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq
الموصل الجديدة
Local sources said that 30 civilians were killed and dozens injured in Coalition and governmental airstrikes, as well as artillery and missile shelling, on New Mosul and other neighbourhoods at the right side of Mosul. A source told Yaqein that “at least three rockets landed in the New Mosul area on the right coast of…
Summary
Published
15 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
30
Civilians reported injured
12–24
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
14 January 2017
Incident Code
CI425
Location
Mosul, al-Jadid, Nineveh, Iraq
الموصل الجديدة
A UN report on the protection of civilians in the context of Nineveh operations and the retaking of Mosul stated: “In the afternoon of 14 January, airstrikes reportedly targeted the house of an ISIL local leader in the Mosul al Jadida neighbourhood of western Mosul. The attack resulted in the collapse of the targeted house…
Summary
Published
14 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
19
Civilians reported injured
11
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
14 January 2017
Incident Code
CI423
Location
Mosul, Jaza'ir / Algeria, Nineveh, Iraq
Medical sources in Erbil confirmed that the child Marwa Duraid Younis Khalil was severely injured and her mother (Eman Jamal Kamber Ali) was killed when a Coalition airstrike targeted their home in Jaza’ir neighborhood, east of Mosul. News of Iraq posted two videos of the girl (who was found alone in the hospital after her…
Summary
Published
14 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
14 January 2017
Incident Code
CI424
Location
Mosul, Dhubat / Officers, Nineveh, Iraq
حي الضباط
Local sources reported that ‘hundreds of civilians’ were killed or injured due to Coalition airstrikes and shelling with artillery and missiles, which targeted the ‘Police and other neighborhoods’ in the East and North of Mosul. News of Iraq said 17 civilians were killed in two separate incidents in the Dhubat (Police) district of Mosul. It…
Summary
Published
14 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
17
Civilians reported injured
12–24
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
Incident Code
CI420
Location
Mosul, Arabi, Nineveh, Iraq
العربي
An Iraqi military source said that Coalition airstrikes bombed three civilian houses, killing 12 civilians and injuring 18 others in Al Arabi neighborhood, northeast of Mosul. Alghad.tv cited a statement published by Turkish state news agency Anatolia, speaking of “about five airstrikes on three houses in the Arabi neighborhood” carried out by the international Coalition.…
Summary
Published
14 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
12
Civilians reported injured
18
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
14 January 2017
Incident Code
CI421
Location
Mosul, Al-Darkazliyah, Nineveh, Iraq
الدركزلية
A relative of a victim said that his nephew Fuad Ahmed Saeed was killed in Coalition raids on his house in Darkazliya neigbourhood, at the centre left side of Mosul. The relative confirmed to Airwars that he was killed on 14th January, in the Al Darkazliya district. Mosul Jantna (Facebook) also reported that “the father…
Summary
Published
14 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
14 January 2017
Incident Code
CI422
Location
Mosul, Rashadiya, Nineveh, Iraq
In an incident previously unknown to Airwars, the Coalition reported on March 4th that: “Jan. 14, 2017, near Mosul, Iraq, via self-report: During a counter-fire strike on an ISIS mortar team it was assessed that one civilian was unintentionally killed when he entered the target area after weapon was fired.” Officials later informed Airwars that…
Summary
Published
14 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
13 January 2017
Incident Code
CI419
Location
Mosul, Arabi, Nineveh, Iraq
العربي
Local sources said Coalition airstrikes struck civilian houses in Al Arabi neighborhood, northeast of Mosul, and left dozens of civilian casualties. The area targeted belongs to the Christian community and had been under ISIL control. Ajel Al Mosul reported that “one of the houses, which was bombed at Arabi neighborhood, is the house of Nurse…
Summary
Published
13 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
3–12
Civilians reported injured
1–24
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
13 January 2017
Incident Code
CI418
Location
Mosul, Al-Faisiliyah, Nineveh, Iraq
الفيصلية
Local sources said Coalition airstrikes bombed a school inhabited by displaced people in Faisaliyah neighborhood in East Mosul, leaving up to 12 civilians dead or wounded. The Coalition subsequently confirmed responsibility. News of Iraq reported that the raids on Friday evening had killed and wounded “12 people, mostly women and children.” All sources said the…
Summary
Published
13 January 2017
Infrastructure
Education
Civilians reported killed
8–12
Civilians reported injured
1–12
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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