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12 January 2017

Incident Code

CI417

Location

Vicinity of Al Khashab Mosque, Al Arabi, Nineveh, Iraq
قرب مسجد الخشاب ، العربي
Local sources said heavy artillery shelling which targeted Al Arabi neighbourhood at the left side of Mosul had left dozens of civilians dead or wounded. In October 2020, the US-led Coalition conceded killing 12 civilians and injuring a further ten in this event. Iraqyoon said at the time that witnesses had reported to the Iraqi…

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12 January 2017
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11 January 2017

Incident Code

CI412

Location

Mosul, Al-Hadba, Nineveh, Iraq
حي الحدباء
A local sources claimed Coalition airstrikes and artillery shelling targeted the Hadbah neighbourhood northeast of Mosul had killed “dozens of civilians.” This took place after ISIL reportedly targeted Iraqi forces with three bombed cars during the afternoon. Ajel Al Mosul spoke of “heavy” and “indiscriminate” airstrikes. It also reported that an “air strike targeted a…

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11 January 2017
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CI413

Location

Mosul, Kafaat, Nineveh, Iraq
حي الكفاءات الثانية
Local sources reported that Coalition airstrikes bombed a house with three missiles in Second Ka’afat neighborhood, northeast of Mosul. A car bomb hidden inside the compound caused heavy losses among civilians living in the four houses surrounding the target. Nineveh Media Center reported that the raids took place close to the house of the President…

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11 January 2017
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11 January 2017

Incident Code

CI414

Location

Mosul, Maliyah, Nineveh, Iraq
المالية
Local sources reported that Coalition airstrikes bombed a house in Maliyah neighborhood, at the left side of Mosul during an operation to retake it. Up to 17 civilians were killed and five others injured, mostly women and children from the same family who were inside the house at the time of the strike. Iraqyoon spoke…

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11 January 2017
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11 January 2017

Incident Code

LQ038

Location

Ganfouda, Benghazi, Libya
بنغازي‎
Alnabaa TV reported that a foreign aircraft conducted airstrikes in Ganfouda. Its source in the Benghazi Shura Council didn’t confirm any casualties. According to Alnabaa, Ganfouda has also been hit by artillery shelling in the early morning hours and civilian infrastructure was heavily targeted in the strike. Alnabaa suspected civilians in the buildings but couldn’t confirm…

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11 January 2017
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Incident Date

10 January 2017

Incident Code

CI410

Location

Mosul, Al-Hadba, Nineveh, Iraq
حي الحدباء
Local sources reported that unspecified air raids targeted Hadbah neighborhood, northeast of Mosul. Iraqi Spring Media Center said that “three raids targeted the densely populated neighborhood of Hadbah on the left side of Mosul.” It did not say how many people died. Mosul Ateka said that Sinan Abdel-Islam was killed in the raids, with a…

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10 January 2017
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Incident Date

10 January 2017

Incident Code

CI411

Location

Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq
الموصل‎
In a previously unknown incident or incidents, the Coalition concluded after self-reporting by personnel that no civilians had been killed or injured in Coalition strikes on Mosul on January 10th. According to a March 4th statement, two separate incidents of concern occurred. In the first it was assessed that “no civilians were harmed in this…

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10 January 2017
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Incident Date

9–10 January, 2017

Incident Code

CI407

Location

Mosul, Dhubat / Officers, Nineveh, Iraq
حي الضباط
Local sources said that three named civilians were killed after alleged Coalition airstrikes targeted near a medical centre in the Officers neighbourhood near the Fourth Bridge. Mosul Ateka named Dr. Mohammed Tayyip ِِAl Leyla, former Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, and his wife, Dr. Fatima Alhyial and their young daughter as victims of the…

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9 January 2017
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9 January 2017

Incident Code

CI408

Location

Mosul, Muthana, Nineveh, Iraq
حي المثنى
Local sources and relatives of victims said that Coalition airstrikes targeted a family house in Muthanna neighborhood northeast of Mosul. The raids reportedly killed a named civilian (53) with his mother (81) who could not leave her house due to her sickness while the son refused to abandon her. Alaraby named Omar Abdel-Hamid al-Hamdani and…

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9 January 2017
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9 January 2017

Incident Code

CI409

Location

Mosul, Baladiyat / Al Sukkar, Nineveh, Iraq
In an incident not previously tracked by Airwars, the Coalition later confirmed the deaths of two civilians in an event in northeast Mosul. The event was later confirmed as a British airstrike. In its May 2018 civilian casualty report, the Coalition noted: "During a strike which destroyed Daesh vehicle-borne improvised explosive device used to attack…

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9 January 2017
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8 January 2017

Incident Code

CI403

Location

Mosul, Al-Hadba, Nineveh, Iraq
حي الحدباء
One civilian was reported killed in alleged Coalition airstrikes that targeted an ISIL member in a civilian vehicle, in the Hadbah neihbourhood in the northeast of Mosul.  

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8 January 2017
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Incident Date

8 January 2017

Incident Code

CI404

Location

Mosul, East Side, Nineveh, Iraq
الموصل‎
Local reports say that the streets in eastern Mosul were covered by the bodies of dozens of civilians – their deaths caused by Coalition airstrikes and heavy artillery. Fighting was particularly intense in the Sugar Hill and Muthanna neighborhoods. Alaraby reported that fighting and airstrikes by the Coalition forces and Iraqi forces killed and wounded…

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8 January 2017
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8 January 2017

Incident Code

CI405

Location

Mosul, Sukkar, Nineveh, Iraq
حي السكر
Local reports indicated that shelling struck civilian homes in Sukkar, Talla and Mufthana neighborhoods in eastern Mosul, “resulting in the burying of dozens of civilians under the rubble,” according to an account in a report by Iraqi Spring Media Center. Ajel el Mosul later released a video it said related to the incident, claiming that…

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8 January 2017
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CI406

Location

Hawijah, Kirkuk, Iraq
الحويجة
Local sources said that civilians, including women and children, were killed or injured due to Coalition airstrikes on Rashad and Riad regions Sunday evening in Hawija, southwest of Kirkuk. Only once source, News of Iraq, claimed there were civilian casualties.

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8 January 2017
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CI402

Location

Mosul, Dargizliya, Nineveh, Iraq
الموصل‎
A UN report on the protection of civilians in context of Nineveh operations and the retaking of Mosul stated: “In the morning of 7 January, 15 civilians, including two women and three children, were alleged to have been killed in an airstrike targeting ISIL vehicles at the Hamameel roundabout in the Dargizliya neighbourhood of eastern…

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7 January 2017
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Incident Date

7 January 2017

Incident Code

CI398

Location

Mosul, Sumer, Nineveh, Iraq
حي سومر
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.

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7 January 2017
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Incident Date

7 January 2017

Incident Code

CI399

Location

Mosul, West, Nineveh, Iraq
الموصل: غرب/الجانب الأيمن
Five civilians were reported killed, including three children and two women in raids in West Mosul. Shafaaq reported that strikes of unknown origin had that “wrongly” targeted displaced people west of Mosul.  

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7 January 2017
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7 January 2017

Incident Code

CI400

Location

Mosul, East, Nineveh, Iraq
الموصل‎
Local and medical sources said that 15 civilians were killed and many others injured and children displaced, in an alleged Coalition airstrike. Al Jazeera said that as many as 27 civilians were killed on Saturday in an airstrike by the international coalition in the east of Mosul. A medical source, D. Raed Ahmed al-Hamdani, had…

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7 January 2017
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Incident Date

7 January 2017

Incident Code

CI401

Location

Mosul, ibn El Haithem new area, Nineveh, Iraq
ابن الهيثم
Local and medical sources said that 12 civilians were killed and many others injured, mostly displaced women and children, in the locality of Ibn al-Haytham – new area of Mosul (the valley of the eye) due to Coalition airstrikes southeast of Mosul. Al Jazeera said that the Coalition strikes hit the area “where displaced families…

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7 January 2017
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Incident Date

6 January 2017

Incident Code

CI395

Location

Mosul, Agricultural, Nineveh, Iraq
حي الزراعي
Local sources and relatives of victims said that more than 20 civilians from three families were killed, including children and women, after Coalition airstrikes targeted their houses in front of Saddam mosque at the entrance of Farms district, north of Mosul. Mosul Ateka reported that “18 people were killed in the Farms district after three…

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6 January 2017
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Incident Date

6 January 2017

Incident Code

CI396

Location

Al Qa'im, Al Anbar, Iraq
القائم
Up to eighteen people were killed and 24 injured – mostly women and children – in government and Coalition airstrikes, in Al Qaim, Anbar province. Yaqein reported the incident and added – quoting local sources – that “the raids focused on the areas of Karabila and Saada east of the city, and resulted in the…

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6 January 2017
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Incident Date

6 January 2017

Incident Code

CI397

Location

Mosul: Agricultural District, Nineveh, Iraq
حي الزراعي
Local sources initially said that a family of three children and their grandmother were killed after their house was hit by a missile during Coalition raids on the Agricultural residential neighbourhood in central Mosul area, which at the time was under ISIS control. The New York Times later put the overall death toll at 16.…

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6 January 2017
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Incident Date

5 January 2017

Incident Code

CI391

Location

Mosul, Al-Mithaq, Nineveh, Iraq
حي الميثاق
Five members of the same family were killed when a Coalition airstrike hit a house in Al Mithaq, according to local sources. Sualif Maslawiah Aneefa posted that five members of Khalid Mustafa Abu Wadah’s family were killed when bombs struck his home as ISIL fighters hid inside, preventing the family from leaving. The post identified…

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5 January 2017
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Incident Date

5 January 2017

Incident Code

CI392

Location

Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq
الموصل‎
Local sources told Mosul Ateka that 26 civilians from four families were killed when their home was bombed by Coalition strikes. There are no additional accounts of this alleged incident at the moment.  

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5 January 2017
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5 January 2017

Incident Code

CI393

Location

Mosul, Fatih, Nineveh, Iraq
الموصل‎
Fourteen people including women and children were killed, and 15 wounded by Coalition strikes in the Garage and Fatih areas, according to local reports. Several outlets, including Iraqi Spring Media Center, reported that 14 people, “mostly women and children” were killed and an additional 15 wounded by Coalition raids in eastern Mosul.  

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5 January 2017
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Incident Date

5 January 2017

Incident Code

CI394

Location

Mosul, Muthanna, Nineveh, Iraq
حي المثنى
Local sources said two named civilians (a father and son) were killed after a missile targeted their house in the left side of Mosul. Mosul Ateka reported that “a missile fell down just beside Haj Dahir which caused his death and that of his son Zakariah.” Iraqyoon News and Resistance Hadbah also reported Coalition airstrikes…

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5 January 2017
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Incident Date

5 January 2017

Incident Code

LC058

Location

Ganfouda, Benghazi, Libya
قنفودة
Libya Alahrar TV reported on Facebook that four children were killed in an airstrike in Ganfouda carried out by the UAE in support of LNA. A two-family house was reportedly hit in the strike. Other sources, such as Morasel Benghazi and bngazy22, also reported the death of four children, some of them quoting the Saraya…

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5 January 2017
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Incident Date

4 January 2017

Incident Code

CI389

Location

Mosul, Talmuz/ July 17th, Nineveh, Iraq
17 تموز
Press and local sources said that 16 displaced civilians were killed or injured, mostly children and women, after Coalition warplanes targeted their houses in 17 July neighbourhood, at the right side of Mosul. The Correspondences team spoke of 9 killed and several wounded in the alleged Coalition strikes. Other sources also reported coalition strikes in…

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4 January 2017
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Incident Date

4 January 2017

Incident Code

CI390

Location

Mosul, Mazari / Farms, Nineveh, Iraq
حي المزارع
A local source said that a named civilian, Imad Ahmed, was killed in the bombing of Farms district, north of Mosul. No other details were known at the time. On March 4th the Coalition confirmed that it had killed civilians that day in Mosul in two incidents. An official later confirmed to Airwars that the…

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4 January 2017
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Incident Date

3 January 2017

Incident Code

LC057

Location

Al Jufra Air Base, Al Jufrah, Libya
قاعدة الجفرة الجوية
Various local and international sources reported that an LNA airstrike hit Al-Jufra airbase and a C-130 aircraft with a civil and military delegation from the Misurata Military Council. The strike allegedly killed one member of the delegation and wounded two others. One of the injured was named as Colonel Ibrahim Bayt Al-Mal, the spokesperson of…

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3 January 2017
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