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1 September 2014

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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…

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1 September 2014

Airstrike (Drone Strike)

Military actors reported killed

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

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Qayyarah, Al Shuhadaa, Nineveh, Iraq

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…

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Civilians reported killed

U.S.-led Coalition

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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…

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Airstrike and/or Artillery

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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…

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Airstrike (Drone Strike), Airstrike and/or Artillery

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Sinjar, Nineveh, Iraq

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…

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Civilians reported killed

U.S.-led Coalition

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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…

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Civilians reported injured

Libyan National Army

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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…

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Airstrike (Drone Strike)

Civilians reported injured

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Ganfouda, Benghazi, Libya

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…

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Civilians reported killed

Libyan National Army

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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…

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Airstrike (Drone Strike)

Civilians reported killed

Civilians reported injured

Military actors reported killed

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

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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…

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Airstrike (Drone Strike)

Military actors reported killed

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

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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…

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Airstrike (Drone Strike)

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Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

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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…

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Airstrike (Drone Strike)

Civilians reported killed

Military actors reported killed

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

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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…

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Civilians reported killed

Civilians reported injured

Military actors reported killed

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

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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…

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Airstrike and/or Artillery

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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…

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Civilians reported injured

Libyan National Army

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Darga Mandi, Dande Darpakhel or Miranshah, North Waziristan, Pakistan

Up to six civilians were killed and four others injured in airstrikes in North Waziristan. The majority of sources reported that those killed were militants but some sources did not identify them as militants. Both NBC News and Voice of America reported that the identity of those killed was not available, raising doubts as to…

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Airstrike (Drone Strike)

Civilians reported killed

Civilians reported injured

Military actors reported killed

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

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Mafraq al Saeed, Shabwa, Yemen

At least five alleged AQAP members were killed when their vehicle or convoy of vehicles was hit by several missiles fired by a US drone either late on June 13 (Reuters) or on June 14 (Associated Press, Xinhua). The men included local resident and reportedly ‘leading AQAP figure’ Musaed al Habshi al Barasi al Awlaqi…

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Airstrike (Drone Strike)

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Darga Mandi, Dande Darpakhel or Ghulam Khan, North Waziristan, Pakistan

Between six and 10 suspected militants were killed and four others were injured in drone strikes, the location of which is under contention. There were no reports of civilian casualties. Hours after the five-month hiatus in drone strikes ended, drones reportedly fired multiple missiles at alleged militants, reportedly killing either six or 10 people. But reports…

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Airstrike (Drone Strike)

Military actors reported killed

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

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Tabi Tolkhel or Darga Mandi, North Waziristan, Pakistan

Up to three possible civilians were killed in a drone strike against a town near Miranshah. However, the majority of sources reported that between three and six suspected militants were the ones killed in the strike. The only source that left doubt as to who the individuals killed was the Wall Street Journal, which reported…

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Airstrike (Drone Strike)

Civilians reported killed

Military actors reported killed

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

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Wadi Abida, Ma'rib, Yemen

At least three alleged AQAP members were killed in a reported US drone strike on a vehicle in Wadi Abeeda – also the site of the previously reported strike. A local official told Xinhua, cited by news agency IANS, that the attack was carried out by a drone, and tribal sources confirmed this to Reuters…

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Airstrike and/or Artillery

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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,…

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Civilians reported killed

Libyan National Army

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1–30 June, 2014

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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…

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Civilians reported killed

Civilians reported injured

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Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

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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…

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Civilians reported injured

Libyan National Army

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Wadi Abida, Ma'rib, Yemen

At least four people were killed in a US drone strike in Mareb. They were travelling in a vehicle travelling to a farm in the area. Witnesses named two of the victims as Naif Faraj and Mousleh al Arahabi the dead were allegedly al Qaeda but it was not immediately clear what Faraj or Arahabi’s…

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Airstrike (Drone Strike)

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One sixteen-year-old civilian was killed and one civilian, a Saudi Arabian Diplomat, in a suspected US and Yemen attack on AQAP militants. Elite US and Yemeni Special Forces soldiers ambushed a car in Shabwa, an eastern Yemeni province to the north of the location of the previous two attacks. At least three people were killed…

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Airstrike (Drone Strike), Airstrike and/or Artillery

Civilians reported killed

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Mahfed, Abyan, Yemen

One civilian boy was killed and three others were injured, in a major event where US drones and the Yemeni military allegedly killed up to 55 AQAP militants. A series of air strikes hit alleged AQAP training camps in Yemen’s southern Abyan province. The attacks follow a reported US drone strike the previous day in…

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Airstrike (Drone Strike)

Civilians reported killed

Civilians reported injured

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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…

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Airstrike (Drone Strike)

Civilians reported killed

Civilians reported injured

Military actors reported killed

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

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Mahfed, Abyan, Yemen

Three were killed in the first strike in Yemen in 20 days and four other were reported wounded.The attack reportedly hit an alleged al Qaeda camp, meeting or vehicle at around 1pm local time. The dead were reportedly taken to the town of Shabwa by car. US drones reportedly carried out the attack. The day…

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Airstrike (Drone Strike)

Civilians reported injured

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Khab Wal Saaf, Al Jawf, Yemen

An airstrike destroyed a vehicle, killing Moajab Aziz Hadban and Ali Hassan Mohammed Hadban. Local media reported Mojab Aziz was a local al Qaeda commander and Hassan Mohammed his bodyguard. This was the sixth strike in 11 days and the second in a week on Jawf province.

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Airstrike (Drone Strike)

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Wadi Abida, Ma'rib, Yemen

One civilian, aged 16, was reported killed in a suspected US drone strike on a car in Wadi Abida. Sources alleged the boy was driving a vehicle transporting AQAP militants who also died in the strike. Up to four people died overall when one or two vehicles were destroyed. The attack hit at night, suggesting…

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Airstrike and/or Artillery

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