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Incident Code

RS4021

Incident date

August 14, 2019

Location

معرة النعمان, Ma’aret Al Nu’man, Idlib , Syria

Airwars assessment

Four civilians were reported killed and others wounded in alleged Russian or Syrian regime airstrikes on Ma’aret Al Nu’man, Idlib, on August 14th.

Step Agency tweeted that “three civilians, including a woman, have been killed and others injured due to raids targeting the city of Ma’ret Al Nu’man, south of Idlib.”

Meanwhile Shaam News and Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that “four citizens including a woman were killed in bombardment by the regime’s warplanes on Maarrat Al-Nu’man city.”

Justice Organisation named two men killed as Mohammad Ziad Al-Hamidi and Mustafa Al-Hamwi. @Ahmad_1alshble and the Syrian Human Rights Committee added names of two female victims Sanaa Al-Asfar and Nour Al-Hassawi. 

Two sources did not positively attribute blame, while Russian forces and the Syrian regime were named by three sources in reports of the incident. Shaam News attributed sole responsibility to the Syrian regime.

The incident occured in the evening.

The victims were named as:

Mustafa Al-Hamwi مصطفى الحموي
Adult male An IDP from Hama killed
Mohammad Ziad Al-Hamidi محمد زياد الحميدي
Adult male killed
Sanaa Al-Asfar سناء الاصفر
Age unknown female killed
Nour Al-Hassawi نور الحساوي
Age unknown female killed

Summary

  • Strike status
    Contested strike
  • Strike type
    Airstrike and/or Artillery
  • Civilian harm reported
    Yes
  • Civilians reported killed
    3 – 4
  • (1 woman2 men)
  • Civilians reported injured
    2
  • Airwars civilian harm grading
    Contested
    Competing claims of responsibility e.g. multiple belligerents, or casualties also attributed to ground forces.
  • Suspected attackers
    Syrian Regime, Russian Military

Sources (23) [ collapse]

Media
from sources (13) [ collapse]

  • Mohammad Ziad Al-Hamidi, from Maaret Al-Nouman, killed in the southeastern countryside of Idlib due to rocket shelling by Assad regime or airstrikes by Russian warplanes. (via Shokree Abo Omar)
  • Image caption translation: "Pictures show the location of warplanes targeting the city of Maarat al-Nu'man with rockets and unexploded rockets." (via Syria Civil Defense)
  • Image caption translation: "Pictures show the location of warplanes targeting the city of Maarat al-Nu'man with rockets and unexploded rockets." (via Syria Civil Defense)
  • Image caption translation: "Pictures show the location of warplanes targeting the city of Maarat al-Nu'man with rockets and unexploded rockets." (via Syria Civil Defense)
  • Image caption translation: "Pictures show the location of warplanes targeting the city of Maarat al-Nu'man with rockets and unexploded rockets." (via Syria Civil Defense)
  • Translation: Three martyrs and wounded civilians as a result of an air strike by machine-gun warplanes on the city of Maarat al-Nu'man.
  • Aftermath of alleged Russian or Syrian regime airstrikes on Ma'aret Al-Nu'man on August 14th, 2019. (via @IdlibPlus)
  • Aftermath of alleged Russian or Syrian regime airstrikes on Ma'aret Al-Nu'man on August 14th, 2019. (via @IdlibPlus)
  • Aftermath of alleged Russian or Syrian regime airstrikes on Ma'aret Al-Nu'man on August 14th, 2019. (via @IdlibPlus)
  • Aftermath of alleged Russian or Syrian regime airstrikes on Ma'aret Al-Nu'man on August 14th, 2019. (via @IdlibPlus)

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    Sanaa Al-Asfar was killed in alleged Russian or Syrian regime airstrikes on Ma'aret Al-Nu'man on August 14th, 2019. (via Ma’aret Al Nu’man lovers).
  • Remnants of a cluster incubator that was allegedly fired by the Syrian Regime forces on Ma'aret Al-Nu'man city in Idlib suburbs, Aug 14th. (via @snhr).

Syrian Regime Assessment:

  • Suspected belligerent
    Syrian Regime
  • Syrian Regime position on incident
    Not yet assessed

Russian Military Assessment:

  • Suspected belligerent
    Russian Military
  • Russian Military position on incident
    Not yet assessed

Summary

  • Strike status
    Contested strike
  • Strike type
    Airstrike and/or Artillery
  • Civilian harm reported
    Yes
  • Civilians reported killed
    3 – 4
  • (1 woman2 men)
  • Civilians reported injured
    2
  • Airwars civilian harm grading
    Contested
    Competing claims of responsibility e.g. multiple belligerents, or casualties also attributed to ground forces.
  • Suspected attackers
    Syrian Regime, Russian Military

Sources (23) [ collapse]

Incident Code

RS4033

Incident date

August 14, 2019

Location

كفرسجنة, Kafar Sijna, Idlib , Syria

Airwars assessment

One civilian was reported killed and others injured in airstrikes on Kafar Sijna, Idlib, on August 14th.

Edlib Media Center stated that “one person [was] martyred in Kafar Sijna town after warplane raids on the town this morning.”

Meanwhile, Syrian Network for Human Rights stated that “Ahmad al Eisa was killed as Syrian regime warplanes fired missiles on Kafr Sajna village in the southern suburbs of Idlib governorate, on August 15, 2019.”

Three other sources also cited “others injured” in the incident.

Sources variously attributed the attack to both Russian forces and the Syrian regime.

The incident occured in the morning.

The victims were named as:

Ahmad al Eisa أحمد العيسى
Age unknown male killed

Summary

  • Strike status
    Contested strike
  • Strike type
    Airstrike and/or Artillery
  • Civilian harm reported
    Yes
  • Civilians reported killed
    1
  • (1 man)
  • Civilians reported injured
    2
  • Airwars civilian harm grading
    Contested
    Competing claims of responsibility e.g. multiple belligerents, or casualties also attributed to ground forces.
  • Suspected attackers
    Syrian Regime, Russian Military
  • Suspected target
    Unknown

Sources (16) [ collapse]

Syrian Regime Assessment:

  • Suspected belligerent
    Syrian Regime
  • Syrian Regime position on incident
    Not yet assessed

Russian Military Assessment:

  • Suspected belligerent
    Russian Military
  • Russian Military position on incident
    Not yet assessed

Summary

  • Strike status
    Contested strike
  • Strike type
    Airstrike and/or Artillery
  • Civilian harm reported
    Yes
  • Civilians reported killed
    1
  • (1 man)
  • Civilians reported injured
    2
  • Airwars civilian harm grading
    Contested
    Competing claims of responsibility e.g. multiple belligerents, or casualties also attributed to ground forces.
  • Suspected attackers
    Syrian Regime, Russian Military
  • Suspected target
    Unknown

Sources (16) [ collapse]

Incident Code

RS4024

Incident date

August 14, 2019

Location

كفرنبل, Kafar Nabil, Idlib , Syria

Airwars assessment

One to two civilians were reported killed and others injured in airstrikes on Kafar Nabil, Idlib, on August 14th.

Shaam News reported that “two civilians were martyred” in the attack while Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, and other sources, documented “one civilian who was killed in aerial bombardment by the Russian warplanes on the outskirts of Kafar Nabil.”

Smart News stated that “a civilian was killed, and another injured, as a result of the bombing of Russian warplanes by missiles on the outskirts of the city of Kafar Nabil, south of Idlib in northern Syria, where the Civil Defense elements recovered the dead body.”

Sources predominantly attributed the attack to Russian forces, while one source named both Russian forces and the Syrian regime in reporting the incident.

The local time of the incident is unknown.

Summary

  • Strike type
    Airstrike and/or Artillery
  • Civilian harm reported
    Yes
  • Civilians reported killed
    1 – 2
  • Civilians reported injured
    2
  • Airwars civilian harm grading
    Contested
    Competing claims of responsibility e.g. multiple belligerents, or casualties also attributed to ground forces.
  • Suspected attackers
    Russian Military, Syrian Regime

Sources (14) [ collapse]

Media
from sources (5) [ collapse]

  • Image Caption Translation: "One man martyred and another wounded due to two warplanes airstrikes targeting Kafar Nabil city in Idlib countryside today, our teams were there with civilians." (via Syria Civil Defense)
  • Translation: Helicopters of the Assad regime forces dropped barrel bombs on civilian homes in Kafr Nabl a short while ago.
  • Destruction of civilians' houses in the aftermath of Russian or Syrian regime airstrikes on Kafr Nubul on August 14th, 2019. (via @EuphratesPost)
  • Destruction of civilians' houses in the aftermath of Russian or Syrian regime airstrikes on Kafr Nubul on August 14th, 2019. (via @EuphratesPost)
  • Civil Defense volunteers carry the body of a civilian killed on August 14, 2019, as a result of a Russian airstrike targeting the city of Kafar Nabil, south of Idlib governorate in the north of the country. (Copyright SMART. Published in the public interest).

Russian Military Assessment:

  • Suspected belligerent
    Russian Military
  • Russian Military position on incident
    Not yet assessed

Syrian Regime Assessment:

  • Suspected belligerent
    Syrian Regime
  • Syrian Regime position on incident
    Not yet assessed

Summary

  • Strike type
    Airstrike and/or Artillery
  • Civilian harm reported
    Yes
  • Civilians reported killed
    1 – 2
  • Civilians reported injured
    2
  • Airwars civilian harm grading
    Contested
    Competing claims of responsibility e.g. multiple belligerents, or casualties also attributed to ground forces.
  • Suspected attackers
    Russian Military, Syrian Regime

Sources (14) [ collapse]

Incident Code

RS4025

Incident date

August 14, 2019

Location

مدايا, Madaya, Idlib , Syria

Airwars assessment

One civilian was reported killed in airstrikes on Madaya, Idlib, on August 14th.

Syrian Network for Human Rights stated that “Hussein Ali al Rayya, from Ma’aret Harma village in the southern suburbs of Idlib governorate, was killed as Syrian regime warplanes carried out a strike using machine guns on the vicinity of Madaya village in the southern suburbs of Idlib governorate, on August 14th”.

One source attributed the attack to the Syrian regime, another named Russian forces as the belligerent responsible for the attack. One other source named both Russian forces and the Syrian regime in reports of the incident.

The incident occured around dawn.

The victims were named as:

Hussein Ali al Rayya حسين علي الريا
Adult male killed

Summary

  • Strike status
    Contested strike
  • Strike type
    Airstrike and/or Artillery
  • Civilian harm reported
    Yes
  • Civilians reported killed
    1
  • Airwars civilian harm grading
    Contested
    Competing claims of responsibility e.g. multiple belligerents, or casualties also attributed to ground forces.
  • Suspected attackers
    Syrian Regime, Russian Military
  • Suspected target
    Unknown

Sources (6) [ collapse]

Syrian Regime Assessment:

  • Suspected belligerent
    Syrian Regime
  • Syrian Regime position on incident
    Not yet assessed

Russian Military Assessment:

  • Suspected belligerent
    Russian Military
  • Russian Military position on incident
    Not yet assessed

Summary

  • Strike status
    Contested strike
  • Strike type
    Airstrike and/or Artillery
  • Civilian harm reported
    Yes
  • Civilians reported killed
    1
  • Airwars civilian harm grading
    Contested
    Competing claims of responsibility e.g. multiple belligerents, or casualties also attributed to ground forces.
  • Suspected attackers
    Syrian Regime, Russian Military
  • Suspected target
    Unknown

Sources (6) [ collapse]

Incident Code

RS4026

Incident date

August 14, 2019

Location

بداما, Bdama, Idlib , Syria

Airwars assessment

One civilian was reported killed and others injured in airstrikes on Bdama, Idlib, on August 14th.

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights stated that “a citizen was killed as a result of rocket shelling that targeted Bdama town in Jisr Al-Shughur countryside west of Idlib.”

Bdama Voice named the civilian killed as Ahmad Mohammed Abdo. Bdama voice said that Ahmad himself had lost two brothers and a son.

Mohammed Hussam who sounds as a neighbor of the victim posted on Facebook mourning him. “Ahmed Abdo Abu Muhammad, a good neighbor, friend, a good-hearted man with a smile that does not miss his face despite the pain and wounds he experienced by losing two brothers and his son Muhammad at the hands of the Assadist gangs, and a lover of his revolution and loyal to it, martyred yesterday as a result of the missile strikes that targeted the town of Bdama.”

Three other sources cited this fatality, and Edlib Media Center also cited “several wounded” in the attack.

Three sources did not positively attribute blame, while one source referred to Russian forces, and another to the Syrian regime, in reporting the incident.

The local time of the incident is unknown.

The victims were named as:

Ahmad Mohammed Abdo أحمد محمد عبدو
Adult male killed

Summary

  • Strike status
    Contested strike
  • Strike type
    Airstrike and/or Artillery
  • Civilian harm reported
    Yes
  • Civilians reported killed
    1
  • (1 man)
  • Civilians reported injured
    2–3
  • Airwars civilian harm grading
    Contested
    Competing claims of responsibility e.g. multiple belligerents, or casualties also attributed to ground forces.
  • Suspected attackers
    Russian Military, Syrian Regime
  • Suspected target
    Unknown

Sources (12) [ collapse]

Media
from sources (1) [ collapse]

  • Ahmed Abdo was killed in alleged Russian or Syrian regime airstrikes or artillery on Bdama in Idlib on August 14th, 2019. (via Mohammed Hussam).

Russian Military Assessment:

  • Suspected belligerent
    Russian Military
  • Russian Military position on incident
    Not yet assessed

Syrian Regime Assessment:

  • Suspected belligerent
    Syrian Regime
  • Syrian Regime position on incident
    Not yet assessed

Summary

  • Strike status
    Contested strike
  • Strike type
    Airstrike and/or Artillery
  • Civilian harm reported
    Yes
  • Civilians reported killed
    1
  • (1 man)
  • Civilians reported injured
    2–3
  • Airwars civilian harm grading
    Contested
    Competing claims of responsibility e.g. multiple belligerents, or casualties also attributed to ground forces.
  • Suspected attackers
    Russian Military, Syrian Regime
  • Suspected target
    Unknown

Sources (12) [ collapse]

Incident Code

RS4032

Incident date

August 14, 2019

Location

بلدات متعددة في ادلب, Several towns in Idlib, Idlib , Syria

Airwars assessment

Shaam News reported that “Russian and regime warplanes launched dozens of airstrikes and artillery and rocket shelling were carried out by warplanes, helicopters and missiles in Idlib.”

The agency reported unspecified  “wounded in all of Kfarsjnh, Kfroma, Tarmla, Bskla, Kfarbasin, Kfarwasid, Sheikh Mustafa, Alrkaya, Umm Zaytouna, Umm Jalal, Teraa, Almanmah, Hish, Altah, Mardam, Sfohn, Mufuqat, Mukha, Krishah, Hasba, Hass, Sheikh Dams, Maarat Horma, Jabalra, Knezvhra,  Maarat Mater, Najda and Kinda.”

Airwars has set a possible injury range of 2 to 12 for this event – and is conducting ongoing research.

The local time of the incident is unknown.

Summary

  • Strike status
    Single source claim
  • Strike type
    Airstrike and/or Artillery
  • Civilian harm reported
    Yes
  • Civilians reported killed
    Unknown
  • Civilians reported injured
    2–12
  • Airwars civilian harm grading
    Weak
    Single source claim, though sometimes featuring significant information.
  • Suspected attackers
    Russian Military, Syrian Regime

Sources (1) [ collapse]

Russian Military Assessment:

  • Suspected belligerent
    Russian Military
  • Russian Military position on incident
    Not yet assessed

Syrian Regime Assessment:

  • Suspected belligerent
    Syrian Regime
  • Syrian Regime position on incident
    Not yet assessed

Summary

  • Strike status
    Single source claim
  • Strike type
    Airstrike and/or Artillery
  • Civilian harm reported
    Yes
  • Civilians reported killed
    Unknown
  • Civilians reported injured
    2–12
  • Airwars civilian harm grading
    Weak
    Single source claim, though sometimes featuring significant information.
  • Suspected attackers
    Russian Military, Syrian Regime

Sources (1) [ collapse]

Incident Code

RS4022

Incident date

August 14, 2019

Location

بسقيا قرب معرة حرمة, Bsqia near Ma’ret Harma, Idlib , Syria

Airwars assessment

In the first of two consecutive airstrikes near Ma’ret Harma, Idlib, two medical workers for Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) were reported killed on August 14th.

SMAS USA reported “a SAMS-supported ambulance center in Ma’aret Hurmeh in southern Idlib province was targeted by six airstrikes, resulting in the death of two employees: Mohamad Hussni Mishnen, 29, a paramedic, and Fadi Alomar, 34, an ambulance driver. The facility  and the ambulance were completely destroyed.”

Macro Media Center reported that “a driver and paramedic from SAMS medical system were killed after a double Russian airstrike on Maaret Harma town south of Idlib.”

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights stated that “a driver in the ambulance team and a male nurse were killed, after being targeted by the Russian warplanes that targeted the area between Maarrat Hurmah and Sheikh Mustafa south of Idlib.”

@SyrianCoalition tweeted that “Mohammad Mishnen, 29, a paramedic doctor, and Fadi, 34, the driver of an ambulance in the SAMS ambulance system in Hama countryside, was killed by a direct airstrike from #Russian occupation yesterday morning.”

While sources predominantly named Russia as the belligerent responsible for the attack, a number of sources named both the Syrian regime and Russian forces in reports of the incident.

The incident occured in the morning.

The victims were named as:

Fadi Al-Omar فادي العمر
34 years old male Medical Worker for SAMS killed
Mohammad Hosni Mashnen محمد حسني مشنن
29 years old male Medical Worker for SAMS killed

Summary

  • Strike status
    Contested strike
  • Strike type
    Airstrike and/or Artillery
  • Civilian harm reported
    Yes
  • Civilians reported killed
    2
  • Civilians reported injured
    2
  • Airwars civilian harm grading
    Contested
    Competing claims of responsibility e.g. multiple belligerents, or casualties also attributed to ground forces.
  • Suspected attackers
    Russian Military, Syrian Regime

Sources (19) [ collapse]

Media
from sources (5) [ collapse]

  • Image Caption Translation: "Fadi Al-Omar and Mohammad Hosni Mashnen, who sacrificed their lives today for Syria, join our colleagues in the Hama Ambulance System (SAMS) in mourning the martyr heroes, who were brutally killed by a direct Russian air strike targeting ambulances while they were in the medical point in the southern countryside of Idlib this morning" (via Justice Organisation)
  • Image Caption Translation: "Fadi Al-Omar and Mohammad Hosni Mashnen, who sacrificed their lives today for Syria, join our colleagues in the Hama Ambulance System (SAMS) in mourning the martyr heroes, who were brutally killed by a direct Russian air strike targeting ambulances while they were in the medical point in the southern countryside of Idlib this morning" (via Justice Organisation)
  • Image Caption Translation: "Fadi Al-Omar and Mohammad Hosni Mashnen, who sacrificed their lives today for Syria, join our colleagues in the Hama Ambulance System (SAMS) in mourning the martyr heroes, who were brutally killed by a direct Russian air strike targeting ambulances while they were in the medical point in the southern countryside of Idlib this morning" (via Justice Organisation)
  • Image Caption: "The nurse Mohammad Husni Mishnen and the ambulance driver Fadi al Omar were killed as fixed- wing warplanes we believe were Russian fired missiles on an emergency point of Hama Ambulatory system- supported by Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS)- in Bsiqa village in the northwest of Ma’aret Harma village in the southern suburbs of Idlib governorate, on August 14th" (via Syrian Network for Human Rights)

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    Fadi Al-Omar, a driver with SAMS, was killed in alleged Russian or Syrian regime airstrike on Bsqia near Ma’ret Harma on August 14th, 2019. (via Mohammed Al Fateh).

Russian Military Assessment:

  • Suspected belligerent
    Russian Military
  • Russian Military position on incident
    Not yet assessed

Syrian Regime Assessment:

  • Suspected belligerent
    Syrian Regime
  • Syrian Regime position on incident
    Not yet assessed

Summary

  • Strike status
    Contested strike
  • Strike type
    Airstrike and/or Artillery
  • Civilian harm reported
    Yes
  • Civilians reported killed
    2
  • Civilians reported injured
    2
  • Airwars civilian harm grading
    Contested
    Competing claims of responsibility e.g. multiple belligerents, or casualties also attributed to ground forces.
  • Suspected attackers
    Russian Military, Syrian Regime

Sources (19) [ collapse]

Incident Code

RS4023

Incident date

August 14, 2019

Location

بسقيا قرب معرة حرمة, Bsqia near Ma’ret Harma, Idlib , Syria

Airwars assessment

In the second of two consecutive airstrikes near Ma’ret Harma, Idlib, a volunteer from Syria Civil Defense was reported killed on August 14th.

This was following a previous airstrike which killed two ambulance workers from SAMS.

Macro Media Center reported that “a volunteer in the Civil Defense […was] killed after a double Russian air strike on Maaret Harma town south of Idlib.”

Syria Civil Defense stated “the Syrian Civil Defense mourns one of its volunteers, Younis Balouz, from Idlib Directorate, Ma’rat Harmah Center, killed by a double raid by Russian warplanes, while he was carrying out his humanitarian duty to rescue civilians after the first target of a medical point in Bsiqa village in Idlib countryside.”

Etilaf News reported that the attack “coincided with intensive bombardments of 29 points in the countryside of Idlib and Hama, [leaving] dozens of martyrs and wounded.

This source quoted Syria Civil Defense stating that “Younis Balouz” gave “his soul for humanitarian work, adding that he sought to help people after the airstrikes, and rescue the wounded from under the rubble [He] gave a lot of effort and sweat.”

All sources named Russia as the belligerent responsible for the attack.

The local time of the incident is unknown.

The victims were named as:

Younis Balouz يونس بلوظ
Adult male Syria Civil Defense member killed

Summary

  • Strike status
    Likely strike
  • Strike type
    Airstrike and/or Artillery
  • Civilian harm reported
    Yes
  • Civilians reported killed
    1
  • (1 man)
  • Airwars civilian harm grading
    Fair
    Reported by two or more credible sources, with likely or confirmed near actions by a belligerent.
  • Suspected attackers
    Russian Military, Syrian Regime
  • Suspected target
    Unknown

Sources (12) [ collapse]

Media
from sources (5) [ collapse]

  • Image Caption Translation: "The Syrian Civil Defense mourns one of its volunteers, Younis Balouz, from Idlib Directorate, Ma'rat Harmah Center, killed by a double raid by Russian warplanes, while he was carrying out his humanitarian duty to rescue civilians after the first target of a medical point in Bsiqa village in Idlib countryside." (via Syria Civil Defense)
  • Younis Balouz, Syria Civil Defense volunteer, killed in the airstike on August 14th. (via Etilaf News)
  • Caption translation: "The volunteer, Yunus Baluz Abu Jalal, a member of the Civil Defense Center in the town of Maarat Harmah, was martyred in a double air strike while carrying out his humanitarian duty in the southern countryside of Idlib."
  • Translation: "The martyrdom of the volunteer Yunus Bloz From the center of Maarat Harmah, with a double raid by Russian warplanes."
  • Translation: The Syrian Civil Defense mourns one of its volunteers, “Younis Balouz,” who is from the Idlib district, the Maarat Harma center, who died as a result of being targeted by a double raid by the Russian warplanes, while carrying out his humanitarian duty to aid civilians after the first targeting of a medical point in the village of Basqa in Idlib countryside.

Russian Military Assessment:

  • Suspected belligerent
    Russian Military
  • Russian Military position on incident
    Not yet assessed

Syrian Regime Assessment:

  • Suspected belligerent
    Syrian Regime
  • Syrian Regime position on incident
    Not yet assessed

Summary

  • Strike status
    Likely strike
  • Strike type
    Airstrike and/or Artillery
  • Civilian harm reported
    Yes
  • Civilians reported killed
    1
  • (1 man)
  • Airwars civilian harm grading
    Fair
    Reported by two or more credible sources, with likely or confirmed near actions by a belligerent.
  • Suspected attackers
    Russian Military, Syrian Regime
  • Suspected target
    Unknown

Sources (12) [ collapse]