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January 9, 2017
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رقة السمرة, Raqqa al Samra, Raqqa, SyriaFour civilians including a mother and daughter were reported killed in an alleged Coalition morning strike on Raqqa al Samra, east of Raqqa city. Euphrates Post cited local civilian sources as saying that “Coalition aircraft targeted with highly explosive rockets residential homes in Raqqa al Samra which caused the deaths of four civilians, including a
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January 18, 2017
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الثورة, Tabaqah, Raqqa, SyriaOne civilian died and three others were wounded in an alleged Coalition airstrike on Al Tabaqa, according to local media. Shaam News Network said that three civilians were wounded in a Coalition strike. LCCSY named Nour Riyad al Ayyash, from Deir Ezzor, as a victim. An Eye on Raqqa also named the victim and blamed
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February 13, 2017
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المنصورة, Al Mansoura, Raqqa, SyriaA single source reported the deaths of at least one civilian at al Mansoura village near Raqqa. According to Smart News, “Local sources told our Smart reporter that planes likely to be the international coalition, launched raids on the towns of Mansoura and Hunaida in the western countryside, killing four civilians and seriously wounding seven
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February 20, 2017
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north bank of Euphrates, Raqqa, SyriaIn an incident not previously tracked by Airwars, the Coalition said in June 2017 that an airstrike on the north bank of the Euphrates in Raqqa had not caused civilian harm – despite claims on social media. According to the report, “Feb. 20, 2017, near Raqqah, Syria, via social media report: After a review of
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February 25, 2017
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Mosul, al Mamun, Nineveh, IraqIn an incident previously unknown to Airwars the Coalition assessed no civilians were harmed: “Feb. 25, 2017, near the Al Ma’mun neighborhood in Mosul, Iraq, via NGO report. After a review of available information and strike video it was assessed that there is insufficient evidence to find that civilians were harmed in this strike.”
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March 2, 2017
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المنصور, Mosul, Al Mansour, Nineveh, IraqFour civilians were reported killed at al Mansour during heavy fighting, according to a single source. Their bodies were buried at Amel school. According to Shafaaq, “Four civilians were killed in the Mansour district, southwest of Mosul during the battles between Iraqi forces and organize Daesh in the neighborhood, which is still under the control
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Incident date
March 9, 2017
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حي المعلمين, Mosul, al Mua'lmen/ Teachers, Nineveh, IraqLocal residents and press sources said that more than 200 bodies were still under the rubble and on the streets after Coalition airstrikes and shelling by Iraqi forces targeted the area close to “Syed Jamal” mosque in the Teachers district and other neighbourhoods in the West of Mosul. @Sonawa1 reported on Twitter: “A huge explosion
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March 14, 2017
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دور موظفي السكك, Mosul, Dur al Sekak, Nineveh, IraqLocal residents and press source said that five family members were killed in an airstrike targeting their house near the railway. They used to live together in the same house in Dur Al Sekak at the right side of Mosul. It is unclear which aircraft carried out the attack. Shafaaq News reported that the bombing
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March 19, 2017
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الموصل الجديدة/الآبار, New Mosul/Abar, Mosul, Nineveh, IraqLocals reported the deaths of 46 civilians including 28 children and 18 men and women with 80 others injured – mostly children and women – by different kind of shelling in many neighborhoods of Old Mosul. At least 26 bodies reportedly reached the local forensic medicine hospital. Iraq News Center spoke of two dozen civilians
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March 22, 2017
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الإصلاح الزراعي, Mosul, Isilah al Zeraei, Nineveh, IraqLocal sources claimed that dozens of civilians were killed or injured by indiscriminate artillery shelling on Islah Al Zeraei (Agricultural Reform) neighbourhood.
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March 28, 2017
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17 تموز, Mosul, July 17th, Nineveh, IraqLocal sources said that four family houses were destroyed on top of their residents when airstrikes targeted an ‘ISIL headquarters’ in Hawi Al Kaneesa (Church) at west of Mosul. Ninawa said that the houses fell on the heads of the four families living there. Nawar Nathim Ali said on Facebook there was news about civilian
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April 1, 2017
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البوعاصي, Al Bu A'ssi, Raqqa, SyriaThree civilians died in alleged Coalition strikes on Al Bu A’ssi village, according to local strikes. Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently reported that the Coalition carried out strikes “on the outskirts of al Bu A’ssi village this morning and named one of the victims. The victim was also named by the Violations Documentation Center. RFS,
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April 7, 2017
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سحاب, Mosul, Saha, Nineveh, IraqLocal sources reported that one civilian was killed and eight others were injured in airstrikes on Al Saha neighborhood in West Mosul. Shafaaq spoke of a ‘mistaken airstrike’ by ‘unidentified warplanes’. It also caused the destruction of three houses. Moreover, Urgent Mosul News and Yaqein reported mortar shelling by Iraqi forces on the neighbourhood the
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April 11, 2017
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اليرموك, Mosul, Yarmouk, Nineveh, IraqLocal 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
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April 17, 2017
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الحسينية, Al Hussayniya, Deir Ezzor, SyriaBetween 7 and 13 civilians including two women and two children died and 12 more were wounded in an airstrike which hit near the Faculty of Agriculture building in Hussayniya. Between 6 and 9 ISIL fighters were also said to have died. While most sources attributed the incident to the Coalition – with some specifically
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April 23, 2017
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ميادين, Al Mayadin, Deir Ezzor, SyriaThree civilians died and between four and 12 others were injured in an airstrike on Al Mayadeen, according to local media. Though most reports didn’t identify the culprit, two sources pointed towards the US-led Coalition. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, “warplanes believed to belong to the International Coalition carried out after midnight
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April 28, 2017
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حمرة بويتية, Hamra Buweitiya, Raqqa, SyriaThe Smart News Agency reported that “warplanes likely belonging to the Coalition shelled the villages of Hamra Buwittiya and Al-Raqqa Al-Samra both near the town of Karama, 20 kilometers east of the city of Raqqa, killing four civilians in the first and one in the second, and wounding nine others in both.” Alaraby also put
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May 8, 2017
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مزرعة الجلاء, Al Jalaa farm, Raqqa, SyriaThree civilians died and several more were wounded in an alleged Coalition airstrike on Al Jalaa farm, according to local sources. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, “There is confirmed information about the death of three people of one family including two brothers who were killed due to bombing by warplanes believed to
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May 12, 2017
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الثورة, Tabaqah, Raqqa, SyriaThree civilians from one family and an additional person died in an alleged Coalition airstrike on the Third neighbourhood of Tabaqa, according to local media. SheroAlo1 said that “the family of the media activist Wassim Abdou“, died in a Coaltion strike, adding that the victims were still under the rubble. According to Etihad Press –
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May 16, 2017
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حي العريبي, Mosul, al-Uribe, Nineveh, IraqA single local source reported that fifteen civilians from two families died after Coalition airstrikes targeted ISIL fighters who were hiding in their house. This occurred in Uribe neighbourhood, in West Mosul. Presently no further details are known.
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May 28, 2017
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الرقة, Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, SyriaSix named civilians from the Ashram family – displaced from Deir ez-Zor – died in a casualty event in Raqqa, according to local media – though reports were conflicted as to whether they were killed by Coalition airstrikes or shelling by the US or SDF. The Syrian Network for Human Rights and Euphrates Post were
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June 2, 2017
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سويدية, Sweiyda, Raqqa, SyriaOne woman and her child died in an alleged Coalition airstrike on Swaydya village, according to local sources. Reports said that the Coalition struck Hussein al-Harfi’s house, killing his wife and his child, the girl. Hasaka Rasd reported that “The International Alliance aircraft targeted the house of “Hussein Al-Harfi” in the village of Suweida Rural
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June 6, 2017
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الرقة, Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, SyriaEuphrates Post reported the death of a one civilian male following suspected airstrikes. Reportedly “a player in the Euphrates Club” In the Amnesty and Airwars’s joint April 2019 report “War in Raqqa: Rhetoric versus Reality”, it was reported that, “Obaida Jasem Zaghrout, 22, was killed while standing on the street by shrapnel when a passing
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June 10, 2017
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الميادين, Al Mayadin, Deir Ezzor, SyriaA six-year-old girl, Raghad Badi’ al Suleiman, died of a heart attack after she heard the sound of warplanes circling the sky in Al Mayadeen, Deir Ezzor, multiple local sources reported. While reports didn’t identify who the planes belonged to, the Coalition was said to have conducted heavy raids on the city that day. According to
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June 14, 2017
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كازية الشرطة, Ar Raqqah: Police Station, near the Cultural Centre, Raqqa, SyriaAn unspecified number of civilians died in artillery shelling near the police station in Raqqa, according to local media. According to RFS, “Aas a result of the heavy shelling of the city of Raqqa and the fall of dozens of shells from Qudd, a number of civilians were killed in Al-Ajili neighborhood, Al-Mansour Street, the
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June 17, 2017
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ميادين, Al Mayadin, al Takiya Street, Deir Ezzor, SyriaOne or two civilians died in an alleged Coalition airstrike on Al Takkiya street in Al Mayadin, according to local sources. RFS reported that two civilians died when a warplane “targeted at dawn today a gathering of residential buildings and shops in the street of Takkiya”. It added that there was “massive destruction in the
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June 20, 2017
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خشام, Khasham, Deir Ezzor, SyriaUp to 16 civilians, including several women and children, were killed and dozens more injured in airstrikes on Khasham village in Deir Ezzor governorate. However, it was not clear who was responsible with allegations lodged against the Coalition, the Russian air force and the Syrian government. In total, five sources alleged that the Coalition was
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June 24, 2017
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حي الدرعية, Dari'ya, Raqqa, SyriaOne named civilian female was killed in the Al Dari’ya neighbourhood of Raqqa after a mortar shell struck her home, local sources reported. The Syrian Network for Human Rights blamed the SDF for her death. According to Baladi, “two women were killed by artillery shelling of the Qusd militia on the area of the White
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June 26, 2017
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السخاني, Ar Raqqah: Sukhani neighbourhood, Raqqa, SyriaTwo named men identified to be from Al Sukhani, were killed in alleged Coalition airstrikes on Raqqa, local sources reported. All four sources who reported the incident alleged that the Coalition was responsible. No further details were available.
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June 30, 2017
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الفاروق, Mosul, Farouk, Nineveh, IraqA local Facebook page and a resident said that one young man named Ahmed Hikmat al-Tai was killed and many families were still under the rubble after air strikes hit the Farouk area (near the Jewish area) in Old Mosul. Local resident Noor Alniamy called for help for several families in the Farouk area, saying