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Incident Date

7 October 2014

Incident Code

CS011

Location

Suluk, Raqqa, Syria
سلوك
A number of sources reported that a named civilian male as being killed in a coalition strike on Slouk near Ar Raqqah. The sources mention another male [CS010] but it's not clear if the incidents are linked. One of the sources claims both males were ISIL members but the rest of the sources say they…

Summary

Published
7 October 2014
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

5 October 2014

Incident Code

CI007

Location

Hit, Al Anbar, Iraq
يت
It was reported by several sources in Hit that Coalition or Iraqi jets struck a number of civilian houses, killing up to 22 persons. Eight children and 3 women were reportedly among the dead. One of those quoted on the event was Nabil Souri, an Iraqi citizen working at Hit hospital, who learned that many…

Summary

Published
5 October 2014
Civilians reported killed
18–24
Civilians reported injured
43
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

4 October 2014

Incident Code

LQ001

Location

Bu Jazirah, Benghazi, Libya
بنغازي‎
According to multiple local sources, airstrikes from an unknown belligerent reportedly hit Benghazi University and the February 17 camp targeting Ansar al-Sharia, which were described by some sources as "terrorist sites". Entisar Shinib reported that some civilians houses have affected by the strike, however, no civilian harms are reported. There were no known reports of civilian…

Summary

Published
4 October 2014
Military Actor
Unknown
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Incident Date

24–29 September, 2014

Incident Code

CS009

Location

Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria
الرقة‎
A number of sources including the Syrian Martyrs website reported that a woman was killed in a Coalition airstrike on Ar Raqqah. She was reported as being a resident of the city. The3 Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies also reported her death fropm Coalition actions - though said this occured on September 24th: " Fawzia…

Summary

Published
29 September 2014
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

28 September 2014

Incident Code

CS006

Location

Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria
الرقة‎
Report of one civilian death as a result of coalition strike. Currently one source only. In July 2017 the Coalition said it had classed the event as non credible based on no evidence of civilian harm: “After a review of available information and strike video it was assessed that there is insufficient evidence to find…

Summary

Published
28 September 2014
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

28 September 2014

Incident Code

CS007

Location

Manbij, Aleppo, Syria
منبج
The US (possibly with Jordan and/or the UAE) bombed grain silos near Manjib. While CENTCOM insisted that the grain facilities were occupied by Islamic State forces, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that only civilians – workers at the silos – had been killed, although militants were also wounded. According to the Syrian…

Summary

Published
28 September 2014
Civilians reported killed
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

28 September 2014

Incident Code

CS008

Location

Road between Manbij and Jarabulus (Road 216), Aleppo, Syria
جرابلس
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a coalition airstrike “on Islamic State buildings” killed “several” civilians who were being held captive, as well as five Islamic State militants. The full translated quote from SOHR reads as follows: "Also at least five members of the Islamic State were killed and others wounded following a…

Summary

Published
28 September 2014
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
2
Civilians reported injured
2
Military actors reported killed
5
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

28 September 2014

Incident Code

CS005

Location

Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria
الجسر العتيق
An alleged early morning coalition airstrike hit a small plastics factory on the Old Bridge Road in Ar Raqqah, the headquarters town of Islamic State in Syria. The strike reportedly killed the factory site’s young night watchman (or alternatively the owner). In what may be a separate incident in the city, the Syrian Martyrs website…

Summary

Published
28 September 2014
Civilians reported killed
1–2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

27 September 2014

Incident Code

CS004

Location

Fadghami, Al Hassakah, Syria
الفدغمي
Six male civilians, all cousins were killed in the village of Al Fadghami, Al Hassakah “as a result of Coalition strikes” it was reported. Local activist Siraj al Hasskawi published details of the event on the day: “At 10:30 on Friday morning the Western/Arab alliance jets committed a massacre against six unarmed civilians and wounded…

Summary

Published
27 September 2014
Civilians reported killed
6
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

26 September 2014

Incident Code

CS003

Location

Al-Hasakah, Al Hassakah, Syria
الحسكة
The Syrian Martyrs website claimed that three named men were killed in a Coalition airstrike. On its summary page Syrian Martyrs listed the trio as civilians. However, their individual pages describe them as fighters. According to a video tribute, Akta’a was an opponent of the Assad regime who had also fought the Kurds in Syria’s…

Summary

Published
26 September 2014
Civilians reported killed
2–4
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

26 September 2014

Incident Code

CI006

Location

Mosul, Tahrir, Nineveh, Iraq
الموصل‎
“Seven civilians including two children” were reported by two local news agencies as being killed in a coalition airstrike in the eastern part of Mosul, in al-Tahrir Street. Alternatively, the Baghdad Centre for Human Rights claimed that two separate coalition strikes – in the Fadhiliyah and Ba’shika neighbourhoods of Mosul – killed four civilians each.…

Summary

Published
26 September 2014
Civilians reported killed
7–8
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

25 September 2014

Incident Code

CS002

Location

Al-Hasakah, Al Hassakah, Syria
الحسكة
The Syrian Martyrs website claimed that six unnamed civilian males were killed in a Coalition airstrike on Al Hassakah. It said it had obtained the news via the Syrian Network for Human Rights, though that original report cannot presently be traced. In July 2017 the Coalition classed the event as Non-Credible, saying there was too…

Summary

Published
25 September 2014
Civilians reported killed
6
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

23 September 2014

Incident Code

CS001

Location

Kafr Daryan, Idlib, Syria
كفردريان
On the first night of US airstrikes in Syria, the United States carried out a sequence of attacks on the Al Qaeda-affiliated Khorasan Group (part of the al-Nusra Front.) For the only recorded occasion during the allied air war, the US deployed Tomahawk cruise missiles to strike targets in the vicinity of Aleppo. Locals also…

Summary

Published
23 September 2014
Civilians reported killed
13–18
Civilians reported injured
15
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

14 September 2014

Incident Code

CI005

Location

Sinjar, Nineveh, Iraq
سنجار
An internal CENTCOM review identified potential civilian casualties from a Coalition airstrike in “northern Iraq.” The only location for this date which matches is Sinjar. The incident was not previously tracked by Airwars. According to a declassified CENTCOM document, “A review of FMV from a RECOIL feed revealed unknown individuals moving into a target area…

Summary

Published
14 September 2014
Civilians reported killed
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

5 September 2014

Incident Code

CI004

Location

Mosul, Houses neighboring the Turkish Consulate, Nineveh, Iraq
الموصل‎
Sources in the city claimed that an airstrike carried out at approximately 10pm in the vicinity of the Turkish consulate in Mosul had killed Ridwan Akram, his wife and their child. According to a commemorative Facebook page, the family had only recently returned after three months in Turkey when they died. While a number of…

Summary

Published
5 September 2014
Civilians reported killed
3
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

3 September 2014

Incident Code

CI003

Location

Mosul, Al Wahda, Nineveh, Iraq
الوحدة
A reported aerial bombardment (at 2200hrs local time) near an ISIL HQ east of Mosul, allegedly left up to seven members of the same family dead and injured in the al-Wadha Street area. At least three women were reported killed and a man and child injured. While Baghdad TV attributed the strike to US aircraft,…

Summary

Published
3 September 2014
Civilians reported killed
3–7
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

1 September 2014

Incident Code

USSOM032

Location

Sablaale, Lower Shabelle, Somalia
In this strike in Barawe, Lower Shabelle, up to six al Shabaab militants were killed, including the the group’s leader, Ahmed Abdi Godane (aka Mukhtar Abu Zubeyr or Ahmed Abdi Aw Mohamed), international and local media reported. There were no reports of civilian harm. The strike was the first known US attack in Somalia for some…

Summary

Published
1 September 2014
Strike Type
Airstrike (Drone Strike)
Military actors reported killed
1–6
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date

24 August 2014

Incident Code

CI002

Location

Qayyarah, Al Shuhadaa, Nineveh, Iraq
القيارة
Local news service Al Sumaria claimed that “11 civilians from one family” died after coalition airstrikes hit the village of al Qayyarah south of Mosul on the morning of August 24th. Other sources, placing the death count slightly lower at 8-9 killed, reported that the attack had been carried out by a helicopter, possibly a…

Summary

Published
24 August 2014
Civilians reported killed
8–11
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

16 August 2014

Incident Code

CI001

Location

Sinjar, Nineveh, Iraq
سنجار
According to the German news agency DPA, the first known civilian victims of US bombing in the campaign occurred on August 16th, eight days into the air war. According to DPA, witnesses informed the agency’s reporter that “11 civilian were killed by a US airstrike when they chased [ISIL] fighters in Sinjar but its rockets…

Summary

Published
16 August 2014
Civilians reported killed
11
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

11 August 2014

Incident Code

LC005

Location

Derna Port, Darnah, Libya
ميناء درنه
According to local media, up to 10 civilians, including three children, were reported injured following an alleged LNA airstrike in the port area. According to Arab Organization for Human Rights Libya, the apartment belonging to the Tamer Al Ergig family was struck. The wife was severely injured in the leg, while the children Aya and…

Summary

Published
11 August 2014
Civilians reported injured
3–10
Military Actor
Libyan National Army
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Incident Date

6 August 2014

Incident Code

LC004a

Location

Ganfouda, Benghazi, Libya
قنفودة
According to many local sources, one child was reported killed in an alleged LNA airstrike on the Ganfouda neighbourhood of Benghazi. Alwasat wrote: The house of the brother of MP Amal Muhammad Baiou was shelled in the Ganfouda area, killing Hassan Salah Mohammed Baiou and the house completely collapsed. His family announced that the funeral…

Summary

Published
6 August 2014
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
Libyan National Army
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Incident Date

23 June 2014

Incident Code

SOM019b

Location

Kuday, Lower Juba, Somalia
At least eight civilians were killed and as many as eight were wounded when fighter jets attacked the Somali village of Kudah, 160 kilometres southwest of Kismayo, a woman who had fled the village following the attack told the Kenyan group Journalists for Justice. According to the NGO: "Kudah, June 23, 2014. An elderly woman…

Summary

Published
23 June 2014
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
8
Civilians reported injured
8
Military actors reported killed
50
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
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Incident Date

21 June 2014

Incident Code

LC004

Location

Ras al Helal Port, Benghazi, Libya
ميناء منطقة رأس الهلال
Local sources reported that the LNA targeted one or two boats off the coast of Ras al Helal. The boat was said to have been completely destroyed and five civilians injured. According to Libya News, five civilians were wounded, ranging from medium to light injuries, following an aerial bombardment of a marine boat in Ras…

Summary

Published
21 June 2014
Civilians reported injured
5
Military Actor
Libyan National Army
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Incident Date

2 June 2014

Incident Code

LC003a

Location

Benghazi Cement Factory, Benghazi, Libya
معمل أسمنت بنغازي
Between one and five civilians were reported killed in an alleged LNA airstrike on the cement factory in Benghazi. Almasry Alyoum wrote: An Egyptian worker named, 35-years-old, from the village of Habalsa, a member of the Al Qusiya centre in Assiut, was killed on Monday afternoon in a bombing of a cement factory in Benghazi,…

Summary

Published
2 June 2014
Civilians reported killed
1–5
Military Actor
Libyan National Army
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Incident Date

1 June 2014

Incident Code

LC003

Location

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Benghazi, Libya
قسم الهندسة الميكانيكية
One or three civilians were wounded in three alleged LNA airstrikes in Benghazi, local media reported. Sources reported that strikes hit the following locations: Palace of the Crown in the Garyounis area. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering – previously called the Naji Infunas Comprehensive Institute. The February 17 camp in Qawarsheh GNA 204 battalion in Al…

Summary

Published
1 June 2014
Civilians reported injured
1–3
Military Actor
Libyan National Army
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Incident Date

1–30 June, 2014

Incident Code

USSOM031-C

Location

Farigow, 3 km west of Jilib, Middle Juba, Somalia
Between one and five civilians, including women and children, were killed as the Farigow leper colony near Jilib, Middle Jubba was struck by unknown warplanes, international media reported. A woman living near the settlement told the Kenyan group Journalists for Justice that the colony was struck by jets by "mid 2014", killing one person and…

Summary

Published
20 May 2014
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
1–5
Civilians reported injured
3
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date

19 April 2014

Incident Code

USYEM184

Location

As Sawma'ah District, Al Bayda, Yemen
مديرية الصومعة، ٱلْبَيْضَاء‎
On Saturday, 19th April 2014, at 6 am, a drone strike hit a open-air Toyota Land Cruiser carrying armed men suspected of being AQAP militants and a second strike hit a nearby Toyota Hilux carrying 12 construction workers. The cars were traveling in the Hazmieh area of As Sawma'ah near the Al-Jorroh family project. The…

Summary

Published
19 April 2014
Strike Type
Airstrike (Drone Strike)
Infrastructure
Vehicle (Car)
Civilians reported killed
4–5
Civilians reported injured
9
Military actors reported killed
9–20
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date

26 January 2014

Incident Code

USSOM030-C

Location

Haway, Lower Shabelle, Somalia
Two civilian children were reported killed and their father severely injured when a US military drone strike attack seemingly directed at nine al Shabaab members struck Hawai, Lower Shabelle, international and local media reported. The strike was said to have targeted and failed to kill Ahmed Abdi Godane. While there initially were no reports of…

Summary

Published
26 January 2014
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
2
Civilians reported injured
1
Military actors reported killed
1–9
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date

19 January 2014

Incident Code

LC002

Location

Qweira al Mal, Sabha, Libya
قويرة المال
Two children were reportedly killed in an air or artillery strike in Sabha in the south of Libya. A pro-Gaddafi page on Facebook identified the victims as the 14-year-old and a 17-years-old, and another victim at 14 years old, who lost his leg. It added that they were killed in the Hey al Hijara neighbourhood.…

Summary

Published
19 January 2014
Civilians reported killed
2
Civilians reported injured
1
Military Actor
General National Congress (GNC)
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Incident Date

15 January 2014

Incident Code

USYEM173

Location

Shibam, Hadhramout, Yemen
شبام
At 10 in the evening on the 14th/15th of January 2014, an alleged US drone strike reportedly killed a farmer and/or an al-Qaeda member, and injured two other al-Qaeda members, close to the city of Shibam in Hadramout Province, Yemen. The identity of those harmed by the airstrike is disputed. Al Hayat reported that Abdul…

Summary

Published
15 January 2014
Strike Type
Airstrike (Drone Strike)
Civilians reported killed
0–1
Military actors reported killed
0–1
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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