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Incident Date
Incident Code
Ob341
Location
Wana, South Waziristan, Pakistan
CIA drones killed at least two in the first drone strike in South Waziristan since September 22 2013. It was not entirely clear what happened, from initial reports. The strike either killed two men and injured as many as four in a vehicle outside a building. Or it hit a building, killing two locals and two “Arabs”.AFP reported…
Summary
Published
28 September 2014
Civilians reported injured
1–4
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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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
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
26 September 2014
Incident Code
USYEM196
Location
Khasaf, Al Jawf, Yemen
The second drone strike in two days reportedly left three children in hospital after destroying a car of alleged AQAP fighters. The children were reportedly siblings and were injured when the strike targeted a car near their home. Two or three alleged AQAP members were killed. An anonymous local official told Gulf News: “The car…
Summary
Published
26 September 2014
Strike Type
Airstrike and/or Artillery
Civilians reported injured
3
Military actors reported killed
2–3
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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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
25 September 2014
Incident Code
USYEM195
Location
Nasab, Near Ataq, Shabwa, Yemen
Four men died in a strike on a vehicle in Shabwa, southeastern Yemen. They were allegedly members of AQAP. A local tribal leader told Xinhua: “The airstrike targeted the al Qaeda elements while they were driving toward their hideout Thursday afternoon at around 3.30pm local time.” The vehicle was reportedly destroyed and tribal sources said…
Summary
Published
25 September 2014
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Military actors reported killed
4
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
Incident Code
Ob340
Location
Alwara Mandi village, Datta Khel tehsil, North Waziristan, Pakistan
At least five and as many as 11 people were killed in the first drone strike in 49 days. Various sources said the strike killed at least two “foreigners,” reportedly Uzbeks, as well as “local militants”. However The News said the strike killed 10 Uzbeks.The death toll varied according to different sources. Various anonymous Pakistani…
Summary
Published
24 September 2014
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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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
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
11 September 2014
Incident Code
USYEM194
Location
Shabwa, Yemen
On Thursday a US drone strike reportedly killed four or five people. A local government official told AFP that they were AQAP suspects who were killed in a drone strike on a vehicle. An unnamed military source told Anadolu Agency: “The drone struck a car carrying Al-Qaeda members in the Bejan district [of Shabwah].” Witnesses…
Summary
Published
11 September 2014
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Military actors reported killed
4–5
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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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
USYEM193
Location
Hadramaut, Yemen
A possible US drone strike killed three people in Yemen’s eastern Hadramout province on Saturday. The dead were reported as suspected AQAP members. An unnamed local official told Reuters: “the three armed men were travelling in a vehicle along a desert stretch between Yemen and Saudi Arabia’s border when the drone shot two rockets at…
Summary
Published
16 August 2014
Strike Type
Airstrike and/or Artillery
Military actors reported killed
3
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
16 August 2014
Incident Code
USYEM192
Location
Abyan, Yemen
In the south of Yemen there were possibly two strikes on August 16th. It is not clear from initial reports if they were air strikes or drone strikes and whether they were carried out by US forces or the Yemeni government. The location of the strikes is also unclear. A Yemeni security official said that…
Summary
Published
16 August 2014
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
),
Airstrike and/or Artillery
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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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
9 August 2014
Incident Code
USYEM191
Location
Wadi Abida, Ma'rib, Yemen
Three people were killed in a US drone strike in the central Marib province. The dead were allegedly members of AQAP. Two women were also reportedly injured in the strike which was said to have targeted a house. The house reporedly belonged to a local man who had rented it to three men from Saada…
Summary
Published
9 August 2014
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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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
5 August 2014
Incident Code
Ob339
Location
Lawara Mandi village, Datta Khel tehsil, North Waziristan, Pakistan
Between five and seven possibly civilians were killed and two to three others were injured in airstrikes in Datta Khel. Various sources, including Dunya News, Frontier Post and Express Tribune, did not specify whether those killed were civilians or militants. The rest of the sources alleged that between five and seven belligerents were killed and…
Summary
Published
5 August 2014
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported killed
0–7
Civilians reported injured
0–3
Military actors reported killed
0–7
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
19 July 2014
Incident Code
Ob338
Location
Doga Madakhel, Datta Khel tehsil, North Waziristan, Pakistan
Between eight and 15 alleged militants were killed by airstrikes in Datta Khel Tehsil. No civilian casualties were reported. A drone reportedly fired multiple missiles at a building or buildings in a suburb of Datta Khel in the early hours of the morning, reportedly killing at least 11 alleged militants. Initial reports put the death…
Summary
Published
19 July 2014
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Military actors reported killed
8–15
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
16 July 2014
Incident Code
Ob337
Location
Saidgai, Datta Khel tehsil, North Waziristan, Pakistan
Up to seven civilians were injured in airstrikes in North Waziristan. Both Agence France Presse and Express Tribune did not specify if those that were killed and injured were militants or civilians, only referring to them as "people". However, the rest of the sources referenced those killed as militants. Between 13 and 24 alleged militants…
Summary
Published
16 July 2014
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported injured
0–7
Military actors reported killed
13–24
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
10 July 2014
Incident Code
Ob336
Location
Madakhel village, Datta Khel Tehsil, North Waziristan, Pakistan
Up to six civilians were killed in an airstrikes in Madakhel village. The majority of sources reported that those that were killed were militants but Xinhua and IANS reported that the identity of those killed was not known. As many as seven militants were killed and between two and three others were injured. At least…
Summary
Published
10 July 2014
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported killed
0–6
Military actors reported killed
0–7
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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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
USYEM190
Location
Al Bayda, Yemen
Associated Press reports that an anonymous Yemeni security official claimed a US drone attacked unspecified targets in al Bayda, but did not provide any further details. Local Arabic website al Masdar Online said the strike hit a presumed al Qaeda site. It reported there were no casualties. Access for reporters to the southern province is…
Summary
Published
21 June 2014
Strike Type
Airstrike and/or Artillery
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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