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Incident Date

22 November 2014

Incident Code

LQ004

Location

Bi'r al Ghanam, Al Zawiyah, Libya
بئر الغنم
LNA airstrikes reportedly targeted Libya Dawn at several locations in the south and west of the Libyan capital including Gheryan, Chalghouda, Nasser, Mazraq Al Qanqa, the Botteh Sorman farm, Bir Hwaisa, the Khuwaildi reserve, Bi’r Al Ghanam, Buaisa, Al Rabeta and the Shamalat factory. There were no public reports of civilian harm. Sky News reported:…

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Published
22 November 2014
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Incident Date

Incident Code

CI018

Location

Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq
الموصل‎
The FBI informed CENTCOM internally on November 21st 2014 that a source had alleged the deaths of “41 Yezidi captive females killed in a strike on a named OBJ IVO [objective in the vicinity of] Mosul.” The closest strike, number 999, was identified by CENTCOM as having taken place some 3.2km from the site of…

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Published
19 November 2014
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Incident Date

17 November 2014

Incident Code

CI017

Location

Qayyarah, Nineveh, Iraq
القيارة
Multiple civilians were reported killed as a result of air raids launched by the coalition south of Mosul. The National Iraqi News Agency cited forensic sources as saying that 16 people, including six women and children, were killed. Other media reported that up to “22 Daesh militants” were also killed in coalition airstrikes in the…

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Published
17 November 2014
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Incident Date

12 November 2014

Incident Code

CI016

Location

Mosul, Jawsag, Nineveh, Iraq
الموصل‎
Iraqi news agency NINA and others reported that seven civilians – including children – died in “international coalition raids” in the vicinity of both Denden and Jawsaq, south of Mosul city. An additional strike by the Iraq military at nearby Mithaq in eastern Mosul reportedly killed an additional 15 civilians.  

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Published
12 November 2014
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Incident Date

10 November 2014

Incident Code

LQ003

Location

Sabri, Banghazi, Benghazi, Libya
بنغازي‎, الصابري
According to several local sources,  LNA air force conducted at least two airstrikes targeting the Shura Council in Sabri and Garyounis, Benghazi. Libya Channel Panorama LPC  reported that the Jerusalem Mosque in Sabri area was damaged followed an alleged LNA strike, though no civilian casualties were publicly reported.

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Published
10 November 2014
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Incident Date

5 November 2014

Incident Code

CI015

Location

Al Qa'im, Al Anbar, Iraq
القائم
Witnesses from Al-Qaim alleged that coalition airstrikes targeted a civilian house at midnight, killing a father and his three children and leaving the wife with severe injuries. The man’s name was given as Mohammed Hammad Alhialy. This may or may not be related to an incident cited by the United Nations in its quarterly report…

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Published
5 November 2014
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Incident Date

4 November 2014

Incident Code

CI014

Location

Al Qa'im, Al Anbar, Iraq
القائم
An alleged coalition airstrike reportedly hit a market at Al Qaim in western Anbar, killing at least 3 people and injuring up to 35. Two of the victims were named as as Mohamed Ahmed and Ahmed Munir Khitab. Significant damage was reported at the scene. However, the coalition denies carrying out any airstrike in the…

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Published
4 November 2014
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Incident Date

26 October 2014

Incident Code

CI013

Location

Uwaynat, Nineveh, Iraq
عوينات
There were claims that coalition air raids resulted in the deaths of between 10 and 20 civilians in a village 110km northwest of Mosul called Aouinat. Al Rafidain reported: "Press sources in Mosul confirmed that the bombing, which targeted the village of Aouinat killed ten civilians and destroyed at least two houses. The forensic medicine…

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Published
26 October 2014
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Incident Date

25 October 2014

Incident Code

CI012

Location

Hajj Ali, Nineveh, Iraq
حاج علي
Two civilians were reported by medical sources in the city to have been “accidentally killed” in an airstrike on a “Daesh stronghold in Qayyarah, Mosul“. However the Wameedh Sabah blog reported a security source as saying that the casualties were inflicted by an Iraq Army airstrike. Up to 81 alleged militants were also reported killed…

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Published
25 October 2014
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Incident Date

18 October 2014

Incident Code

LQ002

Location

Bosnib, Benghazi, Libya
بنغازي‎
Several local sources reported that the LNA targeted the Shura Council in Benghazi – though one source blamed Egypt. The strike reportedly hit the area in the west of Benghazi called Bosnib. Nöor çoröğlü posted pictures of destroyed civilian homes due to the strikes but did not mention civilian harm. According to @zicotarhuni, the Egyptian…

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Published
18 October 2014
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Incident Date

17 October 2014

Incident Code

CI010

Location

Awinat, Nineveh, Iraq
عوينات
According to news agency NINA, a “US air strike on the village of Aouinat northwest of Mosul killed five civilians, according to a source in forensic medicine in Mosul.” The Al Rafidain website (in a report dated ten days after the event) placed the death toll higher at between 10 and 20, saying two houses…

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Published
17 October 2014
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Incident Date

17 October 2014

Incident Code

CI011

Location

Bojeel, Salah Al Din, Iraq
البوعجيل
Reports claimed that Coalition strike hit a mosque during Friday prayers in the town of Al Bojeel, to the east of Tikrit.  

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Published
17 October 2014
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Incident Date

8 October 2014

Incident Code

CI009

Location

Ramadi, Al Anbar, Iraq
الرمادي
An internal CENTCOM review identified potential civilian casualties from a Coalition airstrike on an ‘ISIL checkpoint’ west of Ramadi, which appears to have been carried out by Australian aircraft. According to the internal CENTCOM document, “On reviewing WSV [weapon system video] from AUS F18F” – an Australian Super Hornet – “it was apparent that a…

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Published
8 October 2014
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Incident Date

8 October 2014

Incident Code

CI008

Location

Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq
الموصل‎
According to an unidentified international news agency cited in Foreign Policy, there were unconfirmed reports of possible civilian casualties at Mosul after coalition aircraft heavily targeted the city – though the agency was unable to verify further given the security situation: “We were never able to confirm it.” Perhaps linked to the above, CENTCOM noted…

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Published
8 October 2014
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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…

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Published
5 October 2014
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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…

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Published
4 October 2014
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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.…

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Published
26 September 2014
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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…

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Published
14 September 2014
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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…

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Published
5 September 2014
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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,…

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Published
3 September 2014
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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…

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Published
24 August 2014
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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…

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Published
16 August 2014
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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…

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Published
11 August 2014
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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…

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Published
6 August 2014
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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…

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Published
21 June 2014
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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,…

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Published
2 June 2014
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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…

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Published
1 June 2014
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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.…

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Published
19 January 2014
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Incident Date

11 August 2013

Incident Code

LC001

Location

Al Dahir, Surt, Libya
الظهي
Wissam Salem reported on Twitter that four people were killed and 15 more injured in an airstrike near Sirte. Salem didn’t elaborate if the victims were civilians or combattants. However, other sources claimed that the casualties resulted either from a car bomb or mortars. Wady Dynar reported that the explosions heard in Al Dahir in…

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Published
11 August 2013
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Incident Date

14 December 2011

Incident Code

Lib2011-217

Location

Tripoli, Tarabulus, Libya
طرابلس‎
One man was killed in Tripoli by rebel forces after the rebels tried to confiscate his car and he refused. According to UN Report Source Page 82, the rebels had approached a member of the Tripoli brigade to try to confiscate their car, claiming it was government property, but left after negotiations without the car.…

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Published
14 December 2011
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