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Incident Date
14 April 2017
Incident Code
CI638
Location
Mosul, Ras Al Jadda, Nineveh, Iraq
رأس الجادة
Two local sources reported that seven civilians from one family died when an airstrike or bombardment hit their house in Ras Al Jadda neighbourhood in the old part of Mosul. The victims were named by MNN and Sawlf Ateka (local Facebook group) as: Wa’ed Ali Saleh al-Sharifi, his wife, sons Ali and Nashwan, his daughter…
Summary
Published
14 April 2017
Civilians reported killed
7
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
13 April 2017
Incident Code
CI636
Location
Mosul, Tanak, Nineveh, Iraq
حي التنك
In an incident not previously tracked by Airwars, the Coalition later confirmed the deaths of six civilians in an incident near Mosul. Their June 2017 civilian casualty report noted: "During a strike on an ISIS VBIED engaging Iraqi Security Forces, it was assessed that six civilians were unintentionally killed when a group of fleeing civilians…
Summary
Published
13 April 2017
Civilians reported killed
6
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
13 April 2017
Incident Code
CS688
Location
Hatla, Deir Ezzor, Syria
حطلة
The state news agency Sana reported the death of ‘hundreds of people’ in an alleged Coalition airstrike on Hatla. The Coalition said they were not responsible. However in its own published reports for that day the Coalition did later confirm three strikes in the province. According to Sana: “The General Command of the Army and…
Summary
Published
13 April 2017
Civilians reported killed
0–100
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
13 April 2017
Incident Code
CS689
Location
Khatouniya, Raqqa, Syria
الخاتونية
Local sources reported the death of three civilians following an alleged Coalition drone or air strike on a fire engine which was passing along the road between Al Jazara and Khatouniya. The local news agency reported: “A local source told the Smart correspondent on Thursday that three civilian workers were killed in an air strike…
Summary
Published
13 April 2017
Civilians reported killed
3
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
13 April 2017
Incident Code
CS690
Location
Tabaqah, Raqqa, Syria
الثورة
Two men were killed when an alleged Coalition airstrike hit their motorcycle in Tabaqa, according to local sources. @Mohab_Naser reported that the incident occurred “on the main street south of the church roundabout". The combatant status of the victims was not made clear in any of the reports.
Summary
Published
13 April 2017
Civilians reported killed
0–2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
13 April 2017
Incident Code
CI637
Location
Mosul, West Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq
الموصل: غرب/الجانب الأيمن
Multiple local sources reported that Coalition airstrikes as well as raids carried out by Iraqi government forces led to the deaths of dozens of civilians, and left up to 181 people injured. The airstrikes hit several neighbourhoods in West Mosul on April 13th and 14th. Entably Mumen (Facebook page) reported that Abu Yusuf was among…
Summary
Published
13 April 2017
Civilians reported killed
22–37
Civilians reported injured
79–181
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
12 April 2017
Incident Code
CS685
Location
Ma'adan, Raqqa, Syria
معدان
Two civilians died and five were wounded in an alleged Coalition airstrike on Ma’adan, according to local media. According to Micro Syria, “seven civilians were killed and wounded by a bombardment of warplanes likely belonging to the international coalition”. Al Araby, which also pointed towards the Coalition said that “two civilians were killed and five…
Summary
Published
12 April 2017
Civilians reported killed
2
Civilians reported injured
5
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
12 April 2017
Incident Code
CS686
Location
Hunayda, Raqqa, Syria
هنيدة
According to Smart News Agency and Microsyriua four civilians were wounded in an alleged Coalition airstrike on Hunayda. There is no further information presently available.
Summary
Published
12 April 2017
Civilians reported injured
4
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
12 April 2017
Incident Code
CI633
Location
Mosul, Al Nouri mosque, Nineveh, Iraq
Akbar Elyam News, quoting Lt. Col. Ahmed Abdul-Aziz Al-Nu’mani of Iraqi forces, reported that violent Coalition airstrikes hit the old part of Mosul, particularly the neighbourhoods of the Grand Mosque, Farouk, Clock and the center of Mosul, in the evening into the night of April 12th. Sawlf Ateka (local Facebook group) reported moreover that five…
Summary
Published
12 April 2017
Civilians reported killed
4–5
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
12 April 2017
Incident Code
CS687
Location
Al Hazima, Raqqa, Syria
الهزيمة
Two families died in an incident at Al Hazimah, according to local sources – though reports are conflicted as to whether they died in Coalition airstrikes or artillery strikes by other forces. SY reporter said that a family and a doctor were killed and blamed the Coalition. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that “a doctor…
Summary
Published
12 April 2017
Civilians reported killed
5–6
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
12 April 2017
Incident Code
CI634
Location
Anah, Al Anbar, Iraq
عنه
In an incident not previously tracked by Airwars, the Coalition later denied a social media claim that it had caused civilian casualties at Anah. According to its June report “April 12, 2017, near Annah, Iraq, via social media: No Coalition strikes were conducted on that day in the geographic area of the reported civilian casualties.”
Summary
Published
12 April 2017
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
11 April 2017
Incident Code
CI630
Location
Mosul, Yarmouk, Nineveh, Iraq
اليرموك
Local sources reported that 13 civilians from two families were killed and 17 others injured in Coalition airstrikes on houses in Yarmouk neighbourhood, which had been liberated by Iraqi forces the previous day. Today Egypt News quoted Captain Yazen Abdul-Ilah al-Dubardani of the Iraqi Air Force, saying that “Coalition aircraft launched an air strike on…
Summary
Published
11 April 2017
Civilians reported killed
13
Civilians reported injured
17
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
11 April 2017
Incident Code
CI631
Location
Mosul, Farouk, Nineveh, Iraq
حي الفاروق
Local sources said that nine people from the same family died in an alleged Coalition airstrike on their house in Al-Farouk Street, in Farouk neighbourhood in West Mosul, at midnight. Local Facebook page Sawlf Ateka reported that Tarek al-Sanjari, his five sons and two daughters died. Reportedly, a large explosion blew off the roof of…
Summary
Published
11 April 2017
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
7–9
Civilians reported injured
11
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
11 April 2017
Incident Code
CI632
Location
Mosul, al-Sahab, Nineveh, Iraq
سحاب
A UN report on the protection of civilians in context of Nineveh operations and the retaking of Mosul stated: “In the morning of 11 April, an airstrike reportedly killed a civilian man and wounded seven other civilians, including a woman, in the ISIL-controlled al-Siha neighbourhood of western Mosul. At the time of the incident, the…
Summary
Published
11 April 2017
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
7
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
11 April 2017
Incident Code
CI627
Location
Anah, Al Anbar, Iraq
عنه
Local sources reported that six civilians were killed and several others were wounded in an alleged Coalition airstrike on Anah, in the west of Anbar province. In a suggestion that the deaths were caused by the Iraq Air Force, Saad Awad – the mayor of Anah district – reportedly called on the government’s air force…
Summary
Published
11 April 2017
Civilians reported killed
6
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
11 April 2017
Incident Code
CI628
Location
Mosul, al-Saha and al-Sham gate, Nineveh, Iraq
سحاب
A single local source reported that over thirty civilians, including women and children, were killed in Coalition airstrikes on al-Saha and al-Sham neighbourhoods in West Mosul. Other sources reported that in total 73 civilians were killed and 200 wounded after three days of bombing by the international Coalition and Iraqi forces.
Summary
Published
11 April 2017
Civilians reported killed
30
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
11 April 2017
Incident Code
CI629
Location
Mosul, Resala, Nineveh, Iraq
الرسالة
A single source reported that two people were killed and nine others were injured due to unidentified shelling on Al-Resala neighborhood in West Mosul. Presently no further details are known.
Summary
Published
11 April 2017
Civilians reported killed
2
Civilians reported injured
9
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
11 April 2017
Incident Code
CS683
Location
Hunayda, Raqqa, Syria
هنيدة
One man was killed when an alleged Coalition strike hit the motorcycle he was on in Hunayda, according to multiple local sources. However, it is unclear whether the victim was a civilian or militant. Raqqa Post reported that an unmanned drone targeted the victim, while Mohab Nasser, a media activist from Tabaqa, said reported he…
Summary
Published
11 April 2017
Civilians reported killed
0–1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
11 April 2017
Incident Code
CS684
Location
Tabaqah Junction, Raqqa, Syria
مفرق مدينة الطبقة
One civilian was killed in an alleged Coalition airstrike on Tabaqa Junction, according to local sources. @Mohab_Naser and other sources reported that he was killed when his motorcycle was struck by a Coalition warplane. But according to Al Raqqa Truth and @Q_Alenezy, a Coalition raid hit the car he was in while he was driving another…
Summary
Published
11 April 2017
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
10 April 2017
Incident Code
CI624
Location
Mosul, Sekak, Nineveh, Iraq
دور موظفي السكك
Local sources said that three named civilians were killed including a child, after an airstrike struck their house in Sekak neighborhood in West Mosul. The Coalition later accepted responsibility for the event, publishing an assessment in December 2018 that stated: "On Apr. 10, 2017, near Sekak (Mosul), Iraq, via Airwars report. The Coalition aircraft engaged…
Summary
Published
10 April 2017
Civilians reported killed
3
Civilians reported injured
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
10 April 2017
Incident Code
CI625
Location
Mosul, Sekak, Iraq
In an incident not previously tracked by Airwars, on November 30th 2017 the Coalition said it had concluded an assessment on claims of civilian harm “near Mosul, Iraq” by Human Rights Watch. According to the Coalition report, “April 10, 2017, near Mosul, Iraq, via Human Rights Watch organization: After a review of available information and…
Summary
Published
10 April 2017
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
10 April 2017
Incident Code
CS680
Location
Sho'aib Al Zakir and Dibsi Faraj , Raqqa, Syria
شعيب الذكر, دبسي فرج
Between six and ten civilians including two children and one woman died in an alleged Coalition airstrike on the villages of Shoeib Al Zakar and Dibsi Faraj, according to local sources. The Smart News Agency reported that the Coalition carried out five raids, killing six non-combatants including two children and a woman as well as…
Summary
Published
10 April 2017
Civilians reported killed
6–10
Civilians reported injured
4
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
10 April 2017
Incident Code
CS681
Location
Al Idkar, Raqqa, Syria
الرقة
One civilian died and seven others were injured in an alleged Coalition airstrike on Al Idkhar at Raqqa according to Alaraby, Sadasham and the Smart News Agency. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the Coalition carried out strikes in Raqqa on “the former Political Security building” used as a headquarters by ISIL. It…
Summary
Published
10 April 2017
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
7
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
10 April 2017
Incident Code
CS682
Location
Hunayda, Raqqa, Syria
هنيدة
According to a single source, Smart News Agency, four civilians were wounded in an alleged Coalition airstrike on Hunayda. No further details are currently available.
Summary
Published
10 April 2017
Civilians reported injured
4
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
10 April 2017
Incident Code
CI626
Location
Mosul, Yarmouk, Nineveh, Iraq
اليرموك
Local sources reported a major incident in Yarmouk neighbourhood, West Mosul, where airstrikes allegedly killed more than thirty civilians. The local Facebook group Sawlf Ateka named the victims as: “Imad Abdul Ghani Al-Rashdi and his mother, his wife, four daughters, the daughter of his brother Iyad and five other families after they fled to their…
Summary
Published
10 April 2017
Civilians reported killed
28–30
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
9 April 2017
Incident Code
CS675
Location
Tabaqah, Al Manghiya, Raqqa, Syria
الثورة
A man, his wife and his son were reported killed and six members of their family wounded in an alleged Coalition airstrike on “the garage and the market” in the Al Manghiya neighbourhood of Tabaqa, according to local media. Citing a local source, Al Watan said that “[Coalition] aircraft targeted the industrial zone and the…
Summary
Published
9 April 2017
Civilians reported killed
3
Civilians reported injured
6
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
9 April 2017
Incident Code
CS676
Location
Kasrat Faraj, Raqqa, Syria
كسرة الفرج
Two people – possibly civilians – died in an alleged Coalition airstrike which hit the car they were traveling in at Kasrat Faraj, according to local media. Step News noted “a dawn raid by Coalition forces today which targeted a car carrying two people in the village of Kasrat Faraj south of the city, which…
Summary
Published
9 April 2017
Civilians reported killed
0–2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
9 April 2017
Incident Code
CS677
Location
Fardous, Raqqa, Syria
الرقة
Two civilians died and four were wounded in an alleged Coalition airstrike on Raqqa’s Fardous neighbourhood, according to the Smart News Agency. However the Coalition did not report any strikes on the city that day. According to Smart, “One of the sources pointed out that the [likely Coalition] aircraft targeted al-Fardous neighborhood in the city…
Summary
Published
9 April 2017
Civilians reported killed
2
Civilians reported injured
4
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
9 April 2017
Incident Code
CS678
Location
Al Mashlab, Raqqa, Syria
المشلب
“An air strike targeted the neighborhood of al-Mashlad in the city of Al-Raqqa, injuring civilians,” according to Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently. Other sources also said that the Coalition carried out a strike on Al Mashlab resulting in casualties, though numbers were not given. However the Coalition did not report any strikes on the city…
Summary
Published
9 April 2017
Civilians reported killed
2
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
9 April 2017
Incident Code
CS679
Location
Tishreen farm, Raqqa, Syria
مزرعة تشرين
Local media reported the death of two families in an alleged Coalition airstrike on the Tishreen Farms area. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, four non-combatants including a woman and her child died at the hands of the Coalition. Other sources put the number of dead at six, again pointing to Coalition warplanes…
Summary
Published
9 April 2017
Civilians reported killed
4–10
Civilians reported injured
12–24
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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