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Incident Date
19 August 2015
Incident Code
CI093
Location
الموصل, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq
Local sources claimed that a Coalition airstrike aimed at an ISIL vehicle instead hit nearby celebrations, killing 18 people including three medics. One was later named as dentist Dr. Samir Ibrahim while the UN noted that a father and child died in the reported event. According to NINA, the deaths occurred when a missile accidentally…
Summary
Published
19 August 2015
Strike Type
Airstrike and/or Artillery
Civilians reported killed
18
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
21 August 2015
Incident Code
CI094
Location
الموصل, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq
A single source, NINA, reported that a Coalition strike on a house at Hamam al-Alil, near Mosul “led to the martyrdom of all the family that inhabited consisted of nine members, including three children and a woman.“ As NINA noted: "Local residents told the National Iraqi News Agency that the international coalition aircraft bombed a…
Summary
Published
21 August 2015
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
9
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
Incident Code
CI096
Location
سنجار, Sinjar, Nineveh, Iraq
The monitoring site Iraq Body Count reported seven civilians killed at Sinjar. While these were described as Daesh fighters in reports, IBC classifies all those aged under 18 as children. At least one of those killed in the alleged airstrike was described as aged 15. In its July 2017 casualty report, the Coalition classed the…
Summary
Published
24 August 2015
Civilians reported killed
1–7
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
24 August 2015
Incident Code
CI095
Location
الموصل, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq
A young man named as Muhannad Tariq was reported killed in a Coalition strike near the al Jandool restaurant in Mohandeseen neighbourhood. The Coalition later reported that one civilian was killed and three others were wounded in this incident. According to a comment posted on a tribute page, Muhannad died from shrapnel wounds to his…
Summary
Published
24 August 2015
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
10
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
Incident Code
CI097
Location
الموصل, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq
A single source, the local news agency NINA, reported that 12 civilians were killed in a Coalition raid on the Rifai and Al-Najjar areas west of Mosul, including a child and four women. Four other people were said to have been critically injured. In its July 2017 casualty report, the Coalition classed the even as…
Summary
Published
27 August 2015
Civilians reported killed
12
Civilians reported injured
4
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
30 August 2015
Incident Code
CI098
Location
أربيل, Near Irbil, Erbil, Iraq
Three or four possible civilians were reported killed in an airstrike in northern Iraq, carried out by two Danish F-16s which each dropped a 500lb GBU-12 bomb. The possible error was discovered after a Danish review of cockpit video: “In some parts of the footage showing four people and a vehicle, there were acts being…
Summary
Published
30 August 2015
Civilians reported killed
0–4
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
1 September 2015
Incident Code
CI099
Location
مكحول, Makhul, Salah Al Din, Iraq
Reports alleged that a Coalition strike killed 11 civilians “including elderly people,” and injured 18 more. According to an activist Facebook page, “Coalition planes bombed the market in the village of Makhul, which was full of displaced people.” Another site attributed alleged civilian fatality estimates to the police, though said the airstrike responsible was by…
Summary
Published
1 September 2015
Civilians reported killed
11
Civilians reported injured
18
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
3 September 2015
Incident Code
CI100
Location
الموصل, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq
A single source, NINA, alleged that the Coalition had killed 13 civilians during airstrikes on ISIS targets in the south of Mosul city. According to the National Iraqi News Agency, "33 civilians were martyred and wounded, including women and children, following aerial bombardment by the international Coalition which targeted residential areas in the south of Mosul,…
Summary
Published
3 September 2015
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
13
Civilians reported injured
20
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
3 September 2015
Incident Code
CI101
Location
بين جزيرة الخالدية, حصيبة والبوعبيد, Between Khalidiya Island, Husaybah and Albu Obaid, Al Anbar, Iraq
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq noted in January 2016 that two possible civilian casualty incidents had taken place in Ramadi. The Coalition has confirmed carrying out strikes in the vicinity that day. According to UNAMI, “On 3 September an airstrike hit a bridge in Jazeera al-Khaldiya, around 20 kilometres east of Ramadi, Anbar,…
Summary
Published
3 September 2015
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
46
Civilians reported injured
20–24
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
3 September 2015
Incident Code
CI101a
Location
الرمادي, Ramadi city: eastern area, Al Anbar, Iraq
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq noted in January 2016 that two possible civilian casualty incidents had taken place in the vicinity of Ramadi on September 3rd of the previous year. The Coalition has confirmed carrying out strikes in the area on that day. According to UNAMI, “[an] airstrike reportedly hit a residential area…
Summary
Published
3 September 2015
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
28
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
5 September 2015
Incident Code
CI102
Location
عنه, Anah al Jadidah, Al Anbar, Iraq
The Iraqi Revolution site reported that “NATO planes” [sic] carried out two overnight raids on the town of Ana, which allegedly injured women and children. According to the claims, one of the two strikes targeted a residential neighbourhood. NINA also reported civilian fatalities from a strike in the area, describing the fatalities as occurring when…
Summary
Published
5 September 2015
Infrastructure
Education
Civilians reported killed
2
Civilians reported injured
4–15
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
10 September 2015
Incident Code
CI103
Location
كبيسة, Kabaisa, Al Anbar, Iraq
In a casualty event previously unknown to Airwars, CENTCOM confirmed on April 22nd 2016 that two civilians were killed and four injured during a US airstrike at Kubaisah. According to the official release, “On Sept. 10, 2015, in Kubaysah, Iraq, near Hit, during a strike on an ISIL checkpoint, it is assessed that two civilians…
Summary
Published
10 September 2015
Civilians reported killed
4
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
14 September 2015
Incident Code
CI104
Location
الرطبة, Ar Rutbah, Al Anbar, Iraq
The marketplace in Ar Rutbah was hit in an alleged Coalition airstrike according to reports, killing up to five people and injuring eight more. An adult male and a young male child were pictured among the dead. Iraqi Revolution for example reported that "heavy shelling targeted Rutba focused on the market and fuel station and…
Summary
Published
14 September 2015
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
3–5
Civilians reported injured
8
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
17 September 2015
Incident Code
CI105
Location
الحويجة, Hawijah, Kirkuk, Iraq
A reported evening airstrike by a drone or other Coalition aircraft at Hawijah was said to have killed five civilians and injured a further seven or more people. Al Amaaq, the media wing of ISIS, reported the "Killing [of] five civilians and wounding of seven others in the bombing by a US aircraft in the…
Summary
Published
17 September 2015
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
5
Civilians reported injured
7–12
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
18 September 2015
Incident Code
CI106
Location
الصينيه, Senjah, Salah Al Din, Iraq
A mass casualty incident was reported in Iraq, with at least 43 civilians killed and a further 68 injured, after aircraft were said to have bombed the Senyah region north west of Bayji. The target appeared to have been a former Iraq Army logistics base, while those killed were living nearby in tin shacks. Locals…
Summary
Published
18 September 2015
Civilians reported killed
43–58
Civilians reported injured
68–70
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
19 September 2015
Incident Code
CI107
Location
كبيسة, Kabaisa, Al Anbar, Iraq
A family home was reported destroyed in an airstrike at Kubais in Anbar province. Photographs showed a number of injured children, although there were no confirmed overall casualty figures. One of the images used, however, had already been posted by a source in incident CI103. In its July 2017 monthly report, the Coalition said it…
Summary
Published
19 September 2015
Civilians reported killed
2
Civilians reported injured
7
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
Incident Code
CI108
Location
جزيرة الخالدية, Khalidiya island, Al Anbar, Iraq
An alleged Coalition strike at Khalidiya island, to the east of Ramadi, reportedly killed seven civilians including two cildren. Thirteen people were also reported injured, described as ‘mostly women and children.’ A Coalition report issued in December 2016 stated the following: “After a thorough review of the facts and circumstances of each alleged civilian casualty…
Summary
Published
20 September 2015
Civilians reported killed
7
Civilians reported injured
13
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
20 September 2015
Incident Code
CI109
Location
الموصل, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq
A US airstrike on an ‘ISIS headquarters’ in Mosul in fact killed four members of one family – named as university professor Mohannad Al Rezzo (pictured below); his 18-year old son Najib Mohannad Al Rezzo (pictured below); his brother Bassim’s wife Miyada Rezzo and their 21-year old daughter Tuka Rezzo. The Coalition admitted the deaths…
Summary
Published
20 September 2015
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
4
Civilians reported injured
2
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
20 September 2015
Incident Code
CI110
Location
الموصل, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq
A reported coalition airstrike on an ISIL IED factory [see CI109] injured ‘dozens’ of civilians, it was claimed, after a chemical cloud spread across local areas. Waradana cited Ghias Surja of the Nineveh Union of Kurdistan National Center as saying: “The lab was used by the criminal organization for terrorist activities against the innocent and…
Summary
Published
20 September 2015
Civilians reported injured
70
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
24 September 2015
Incident Code
CI111
Location
سنجار, Sinjar, Nineveh, Iraq
In a previously unknown incident, the US confirmed in January 2016 that its aircraft had killed two civilians in a strike at Sinjar four months earlier. According to CENTCOM, “On Sept. 24, 2015, near Sinjar, Iraq, during strikes against an ISIL vehicle, it was assessed two civilians were killed. An assessed enemy combatant on a…
Summary
Published
24 September 2015
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
25 September 2015
Incident Code
CI112
Location
الرمادي, Ramadi, Al Anbar, Iraq
A single source claimed that two civilians died after “the alliance air force shelled civilian homes in Ramadi.” No other details were given. On July 7th, 2017 the Coalition admitted responsibility for the incident, reporting: “Sep. 25, 2015, near Ramadi, Iraq, via Airwars report: During strikes on an ISIS fighting positions, it was assessed that…
Summary
Published
25 September 2015
Civilians reported killed
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
27 September 2015
Incident Code
CI113
Location
يت, Hit, Al Anbar, Iraq
Four members of the al-Jumaili family were killed in an alleged Coalition strike at Hit, according to reports. Mr al-Jumaili was described as a refrigerator repairman, whose home in the city’s April 7th neighbourhood was hit. The dead have been named by one of the sources. In their August 2020 civilian casualty report, the US-led…
Summary
Published
27 September 2015
Civilians reported killed
4
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
27 September 2015
Incident Code
CI114
Location
داقوق, Duquq, Kirkuk, Iraq
A strike by what at the time was an unknown aircraft killed eight civilians in Yurgon (or Alarkon) village near Duquq, according to local reports. The US led Coalition admitted responsibility for seven deaths in March 2020. Waradana at the time cited one anonymous source: “The bombing led to the destruction of a number houses……
Summary
Published
27 September 2015
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
7–8
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
27 September 2015
Incident Code
CI115
Location
الموصل, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq
Local and medical sources said that 13 civilians were killed and up to six more injured after Coaliton planes struck their homes in the centre of Mosul, while three more civilians died after a shop was reportedly struck by the Coalition in the west of the city. This report references the event in central Mosul.…
Summary
Published
27 September 2015
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
13–16
Civilians reported injured
3–6
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
27 September 2015
Incident Code
CI115a
Location
الموصل, West Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq
Local and medical sources said that 13 civilians were killed and up to six more injured after Coalition planes struck their homes in the centre of Mosul, while three more civilians died after a shop was reportedly struck by the Coalition in the west of the city. This report relates to the west Mosul allegation.…
Summary
Published
27 September 2015
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
3
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
29 September 2015
Incident Code
CI116
Location
الموصل, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq
At least 20 civilians were reported killed and up to 31 injured after Coalition (or possibly Iraqi) aircraft allegedly hit the Sunni Wafq state religious affairs building adjacent to one of the largest mosques in Mosul. Aircraft reportedly targeted a meeting of senior Islamic State figures at the Waqf site, which has been taken over…
Summary
Published
29 September 2015
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
20–29
Civilians reported injured
16–34
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
2 October 2015
Incident Code
CI117
Location
الحويجة, Hawijah, Kirkuk, Iraq
Local sources said that two civilians were killed and seven wounded after international aircraft struck civilians in Rubeidh Al-Asriya village, in Hawijah district. In the first of their March 2020 civilian casualty reports, the US-led Coalition assessed reports that they were responsible for civilian harm in this strike as “non-credible”, stating that no Coalition actions…
Summary
Published
2 October 2015
Civilians reported killed
2
Civilians reported injured
7
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
5 October 2015
Incident Code
CI118
Location
الحويجة, Hawijah, Kirkuk, Iraq
Eight civilians were killed from one family after US aircraft bombed their home in Atshana Village, in eastern Hawijah district. In a January 2016 report the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq appeared to confirm the report, noting: “On 5 October, an airstrike mistakenly targeted a civilian house in Atshana village, east of Hawija and…
Summary
Published
5 October 2015
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
8–9
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
7 October 2015
Incident Code
CI119
Location
Shura, Nineveh, Iraq
There were reports that a dozen people were killed – including five women – following alleged Coalition attacks which struck civilian homes at Shura, 40 km south of Mosul. In their January 2020 civilian casualty report, the US-led Coalition assessed reports that they had killed civilians in this strike as "non-credible", stating that no Coalition…
Summary
Published
7 October 2015
Civilians reported killed
12
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
8 October 2015
Incident Code
CI120
Location
الفلوجة, Fallujah, Al Anbar, Iraq
Local sources reported that either government shelling or a warplane from the international Coalition struck civilians betwen noon and 1pm as they were using the Albu Shajal crossing point north of Fallujah, allegedly killing up to 14 non-combatants and injuring 12 more. According to Al Fallujah News there were two strikes at the crossing point,…
Summary
Published
8 October 2015
Civilians reported killed
11–14
Civilians reported injured
12
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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