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Incident Date
7 January 2016
Incident Code
CS163
Location
الهزيمة, Al Hazimah, Raqqa, Syria
Eight children and three women were widely reported killed, in what most sources claimed to be a Coalition airstrike. While Raqqah is Being Slaughtered and Radio Alkul did not attribute the attack, the Syrian Observatory blamed the Coalition: “Eight children and three citizen women were killed in a bombing by the international coalition’s warplanes on…
Summary
Published
7 January 2016
Civilians reported killed
11–12
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
7 January 2016
Incident Code
RS0349
Location
عربين, Arbeen, Damascus, Syria
Twelve civilians were killed including two to three women and two to four children and as many as 85 injured in airstrikes on Arbeen, according to multiple sources – although reports were conflicted as to whether Russian or Assad regime forces were responsible. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that 18 non-combatants died including…
Summary
Published
7 January 2016
Civilians reported killed
12
Civilians reported injured
80–85
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
7 January 2016
Incident Code
RS0348
Location
أبو طلطل, Abu Taltal, Aleppo, Syria
Four named civilians from one family including a child died when Russian warplanes allegedly fired missiles on the town of Abou Taltal in Aleppo governorate.
Summary
Published
7 January 2016
Civilians reported killed
4
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
7 January 2016
Incident Code
RS0350
Location
سفلانية, Suflaniyah, Aleppo, Syria
Six non-combatants – three named women and three children – died when Russian warplanes allegedly fired missiles on the village of al Saflaneh in the eastern suburbs of Aleppo, according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights. The Damascus Centre for Human Rights Studies additionally named Sweilem Ahmed, a child, as also having died from “the…
Summary
Published
7 January 2016
Civilians reported killed
6
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
6 January 2016
Incident Code
RS0345
Location
بزاعة, Baza'a, Aleppo, Syria
Eight or nine non-combatants including 3 women and 4 children were killed and seven others injured in alleged Russian or Assad regime airstrikes on a western neighbourhood in the town of Baza’a. Citing an anonymous source, Syria News Desk noted: “Russian warplanes carried out three raids on the centre and outskirts of the city, killing…
Summary
Published
6 January 2016
Civilians reported killed
8–9
Civilians reported injured
7–10
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
6 January 2016
Incident Code
RS0346
Location
تل فضة, Tal Fedda, Aleppo, Syria
One teenage boy, Ali Mosa Shawakh, was killed in an alleged Russian airstrike at Tal Fedda village near Maskanah, according to the Violations Documentation Center. According to Al Buraq, the attack targeted “the Alamabagher sugar plant compound near Maskanah which led to the death of several people and the wounding of others, including a martyr,…
Summary
Published
6 January 2016
Civilians reported killed
1–2
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
6 January 2016
Incident Code
RS0343
Location
نوى, Nawa, Daraa, Syria
Three non-combatants were killed and several others injured in alleged Russian airstrikes on Nawa, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Smart News reported that “Russian warplanes launched four raids on residential neighborhoods in the city, leaving three dead and several wounded including women and children (some of them critical), who were taken to…
Summary
Published
6 January 2016
Civilians reported killed
3
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
6 January 2016
Incident Code
RS0344
Location
حزة, Hazzah, Damascus, Syria
Six civilians were reported killed in an alleged Russian airstrike on Hazzah village near Kafr Batna. Two victims were named by the VDC as having died at Kafr Batna itself, though all other sources placed their deaths at Hazzah. The VDC also listed two unnamed members of the al Sadiq family as having died in…
Summary
Published
6 January 2016
Civilians reported killed
6
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
6 January 2016
Incident Code
RS0347
Location
زملكا, Zamalka, Damascus, Syria
Up to 12 civilians including three to four children and two women were killed and dozens more injured in alleged airstrikes and an artillery bombardment on Zamalka, according to multiple sources – though reports are conflicted as to whether Russian or Assad regime forces were responsible for the deaths. Shaam News initially reported that four…
Summary
Published
6 January 2016
Civilians reported killed
12–13
Civilians reported injured
24
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
5 January 2016
Incident Code
CS162
Location
الرقة, Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria
Airstrikes targeted the Water Foundation building on the outskirts of Raqqah around midnight, killing an employee of the organization and two building guards according to the Syrian Observatory (which did not attribute the strike to any particular party.) Other sources made no mention of casualties, although a propaganda video released by Daesh appeared to show…
Summary
Published
5 January 2016
Civilians reported killed
3
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
5 January 2016
Incident Code
RS0342
Location
ابطع, Abtaa, Daraa, Syria
Five to six civilians including two children were killed and several others injured in alleged Russian airstrikes on Abtaa, according to the Violations Documentation Center and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights – though reports are unclear whether the deaths were the result of raids by Russian warplanes or shelling by regime forces. The Syrian…
Summary
Published
5 January 2016
Civilians reported killed
5–6
Civilians reported injured
40
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
5 January 2016
Incident Code
LQ021
Location
بنغازي, Benghazi, Benghazi, Libya
The LNA reported that it conducted airstrikes against what it described as terrorists in the neighbourhoods of Hawari, the fish market, and Bosnib, along with other targets in the Western part of the city. Al Arabiya reported that a MiG-21 was also shot down by ISIS during the bombings, crashing without reported loss of life in…
Summary
Published
5 January 2016
Military Actor
Libyan National Army
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Incident Date
4 January 2016
Incident Code
RS0341
Location
الباب, Al-Bab, Aleppo, Syria
Five civilians were killed and several others injured in alleged Russian and/or Assad regime airstrikes on Al Bab, according to local sources. The Shaam News Network produced two reports on the alleged incident. The first report put the death toll at two and an unspecified number of wounded, while the second report said five civilians…
Summary
Published
4 January 2016
Infrastructure
Healthcare
Civilians reported killed
5
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
3 January 2016
Incident Code
RS0340
Location
الشيخ مسكين, Sheikh Miskeen, Daraa, Syria
A woman and man were killed in Sheikh Miskeen according to local sources – though it is not clear whether regime air or ground forces, strikes by Russian warplanes, or both were responsible for the deaths. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights produced two reports on the incident. The first report said that Russian warplanes…
Summary
Published
3 January 2016
Civilians reported killed
2–3
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
3 January 2016
Incident Code
TS038
Location
الباب, Al Bab, Aleppo, Syria
According to local sources, 11 civilians were killed and 26 injured in an alleged Turkish airstrike on Al Bab, Syria. Al Jazeera posted on Twitter that "11 people were killed and 26 wounded and an ambulance destroyed after Turkish bombardment of the city of Bab in the countryside of eastern Aleppo." Al Bab Al Hadath…
Summary
Published
3 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
11
Civilians reported injured
26
Military Actor
Turkish Military
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Incident Date
2 January 2016
Incident Code
RS0338
Location
مارع, Mare', Aleppo, Syria
One possible civilian was reported killed and several others injured in alleged Russian airstrikes on Mare’ in the northern countryside of Aleppo, according to multiple sources. The Shaam News Network reported that Russian planes carried out raids on various areas, in particular the towns of Mare’, Tal Rifa’at, Izaz, Mangh and Deir Jamal, leading to…
Summary
Published
2 January 2016
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
2 January 2016
Incident Code
RS0339
Location
معارة الارتيق, Maarat al Arteek, Aleppo, Syria
Two civilians including one unnamed woman and a member of the White Helmets were killed – and 10 others injured – in alleged Russian airstrikes on Maarat al Arteek, according to multiple sources. The Shaam News Network reported that a woman died when Russian warplanes targeted the town in several spatial missile strikes. They said…
Summary
Published
2 January 2016
Civilians reported killed
2
Civilians reported injured
10
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
2 January 2016
Incident Code
RS0337
Location
بيانون, Bayanoun, Aleppo, Syria
Two civilians were reported killed – one possibly a child – in an alleged Russian airstrike or artillery attack on the town of Bayanoun.
Summary
Published
2 January 2016
Civilians reported killed
2
Civilians reported injured
5
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
1 January 2016
Incident Code
CI172
Location
الرمادي, Hit and Thaiyala, Al Anbar, Iraq
Local sources said that airstrikes – possibly by the Coalition – had struck civilians in Hit and Thaiyala in Anbar province, resulting in deaths and injuries of multiple civilians including women and children. Face Iraq reported that 12 bodies of civilians were later evacuated from Thaiyala, “killed in bombings which had resulted in the deaths…
Summary
Published
1 January 2016
Civilians reported killed
12
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
31 December 2015
Incident Code
RS0335
Location
مخيم عابدين للنازحين, A'bedeen camp for IDPs, Idlib, Syria
Five civilians were killed and 20 wounded in an alleged Russian airstrike on A’bedeen camp for displaced people, according to the Shaam News Network. The White Helmets told SNN that the shelling hit a large number of tents, scattering their contents across the site. They added that firefighters and ambulance teams attended the scene and…
Summary
Published
31 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
5
Civilians reported injured
20
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
31 December 2015
Incident Code
RS0336
Location
أعزاز, A`zaz, Aleppo, Syria
Three civilians including a woman and child were reported killed at a camp for displaced people in A'zaz. Radio Al Kul reported that “Three civilians were killed and tens injured, among them many children in critical condition, by Russian airstrikes on A'zaz and a refugee camp on the outskirts of the town.” The three victims were…
Summary
Published
31 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
3
Civilians reported injured
6–12
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
31 December 2015
Incident Code
RS0334
Location
الهداج, Hedaj, Hama, Syria
One adult male civilian, Shayesh Hamdo al-Ahmad, was killed in an alleged Russian airstrike on Hedaj, according to the Violations Documentation Center. No additional details are presently known.
Summary
Published
31 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
30 December 2015
Incident Code
CI170
Location
حي سومر, Mosul, Sumer, Nineveh, Iraq
Ten civilian prisoners were reportedly killed in an alleged 5 am Coalition strike on Mosul which targeted the Nineveh provincial council building. According to A3Maq, “international coalition aircraft launched at dawn on Wednesday several raids in which some 20 rockets were fired, The aircraft targeted the marriage contracts office, the Office of the Ombudsman and…
Summary
Published
30 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
10
Civilians reported injured
31
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
30 December 2015
Incident Code
CI171
Location
يت, Hit, Al Anbar, Iraq
An alleged Coalition strike at Hit in Anbar resulted in the deaths of four named civilians. Hit News reported that Coalition strikes hit the area around the Khaled Saadoun mosque and a nearby industrial district “resulting in the deaths of a number of innocent citizens.” In the first of their March 2020 civilian casualty reports,…
Summary
Published
30 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
4
Civilians reported injured
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
30 December 2015
Incident Code
RS0330
Location
البوليل, Al Buliyal, Deir Ezzor, Syria
Three to six civilians including two women and three to four children were killed in an alleged Russian airstrike on Al Buliyal, according to the Violations Documentation Center and the Syrian Network for Human Rights. The Syrian Network for Human Rights reported that three non-combatants – including two women and a child – died when Russian warplanes…
Summary
Published
30 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
3–6
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
30 December 2015
Incident Code
RS0331
Location
دوما, Douma, Damascus, Syria
Two civilians were reported killed and “dozens” wounded in airstrikes on Douma, according to the Shaam News Network – though the Network did not state whether Russia or the Assad regime was responsible. The White Helmets told SNN that aircrafts bombed the city with about 12 rockets which led to the death of two civilians. It…
Summary
Published
30 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
2
Civilians reported injured
6–24
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
30 December 2015
Incident Code
RS0332
Location
خان السبل, Khan Subul, Idlib, Syria
One adult male, Bahaa Mohammad al-Sabouh (pictured) was reported killed in an alleged Russian airstrike on Khan Subul. Step News said that “Russian planes launched several air raids on the town of Khan Subul and Mount Shahshabo from the southern countryside of Idlib, resulting in one civilian death in Khan Subul and several injuries among civilians.” However…
Summary
Published
30 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
0–1
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
30 December 2015
Incident Code
RS0329
Location
معر زيتة, Marzita, Idlib, Syria
One adult male civilian was killed in alleged Russian airstrikes on Marzita, according to the Violations Documentation Center and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. According to the SOHR one man from Ma’ra al-Nu’man died from wounds sustained in alleged Russian airstrikes targeting Marzita.
Summary
Published
30 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
30 December 2015
Incident Code
RS0333
Location
تدمر, Palmyra, Homs, Syria
One adult male, named by the Violations Documentation Center as media activist Yousef Abo Bilal, (aka Abu al-Homsi Joshua) was killed in an alleged Russian airstrike. While the VDC lists Hamidiya neighbourhood in Homs, Yousef Abo Bilal actually died in Palmyra. His non-combatant status is also questioned. As Enabbaladi notes: “Activists from the city of Homs…
Summary
Published
30 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
0–1
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
29 December 2015
Incident Code
CI169
Location
العربي, Mosul, Arabi and Cairo petrol station, Nineveh, Iraq
An alleged Coalition strike on two Daesh positions in western Mosul also reportedly led to an unspecified number of civilian casualties. According to NRN News, vehicles used by Daesh to transport oil were destroyed in a 1pm strike, killing about 15 militants. But the attack also destroyed the ‘Cairo’ gas station, which in turn damaged…
Summary
Published
29 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
2
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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