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Incident Code
CI446
Location
الموصل, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq
In an incident not previously known to Airwars researchers, the Coalition reported on March 4th that it was assessing an event at Mosul. According to the release “Currently, 19 reports of civilian casualties are still being assessed… Jan. 31, 2017, near Mosul, Iraq, via social media report.” No additional details are presently known.
Summary
Published
31 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
0–1
Civilians reported injured
0–1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
30 January 2017
Incident Code
CI445
Location
حي التنك, Mosul, Tanak, Nineveh, Iraq
It was reported that 11 civilians died in a Coalition airstrike at Tanak in western Mosul. The Coalition later admitted a US strike in the near area, noting in their April 2017 civilian casualty report that “During a strike on an ISIS weapons manufacturing facility, it was assessed that one civilian in the building was…
Summary
Published
30 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
1–11
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
30 January 2017
Incident Code
CS465
Location
Western countryside of Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria
A single source reported the death of one civilian in an alleged Coalition strike. According to the Syrian Observatory, “SOHR documented the death of a person from the southeastern countryside of Homs, he was killed in bombing by warplanes of the International Coalition on areas in the western countryside al-Raqqah city.” No additional details are…
Summary
Published
30 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
30 January 2017
Incident Code
CS466
Location
الثورة, Al-Thawrah (Tabaqah), Raqqa, Syria
Up to three civilians were killed in reported Coalition airstrikes around al Tabaqa when a school was hit in airstrikes. One of the casualtiies was said to be a special needs person. According to Smart News, “A local source said the [Coalition] planes bombed the area of the villas and Muhammad Al Fares school in…
Summary
Published
30 January 2017
Infrastructure
Education
Civilians reported killed
2–3
Civilians reported injured
3–4
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
29 January 2017
Incident Code
CI442
Location
حي الفاروق, Mosul, Farouk, Nineveh, Iraq
A local source said that a child was killed and his parents were injured in Coalition airstrikes on Farouk neighbourhood at the right side of Mosul. A government source told Yaqein that a four-year-old boy was killed and his parents seriously injured after an explosive missile was dropped from an aircraft near the al-Farouk neighbourhood,…
Summary
Published
29 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Code
CI443
Location
الإصلاح الزراعي, Mosul, Isilah Zeraei / Agragarian Reform, Nineveh, Iraq
Local sources said that seven civilians were killed and 19 others injured after Coalition airstrikes targeted a flour mill in the Agrarian Reform district at the right side of Mosul. Press sources had also reported that “the bombing caused considerable material damage to a number of civilian houses in the area (..)”
Summary
Published
29 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
7
Civilians reported injured
19
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
29 January 2017
Incident Code
CI444
Location
القائم, Al Qa'im, Al Anbar, Iraq
Local sources reported that a woman and a child were killed and 12 other civilians injured after Coalition raids had targeted the Husaybah area in Al Qa’im, in the west of Anbar province. Most sources said US aircraft had carried out the airstrikes, while one blamed the Coalition. However, no Coalition strikes were publicly eported…
Summary
Published
29 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
2
Civilians reported injured
12
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
29 January 2017
Incident Code
CS464
Location
الرقة, Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria
One civilian, a gas station attendant, was reported killed along with four ISIL fighters following an alleged Coalition airstrike at Ar Raqqah. According to Smart News, “One civilian was killed and another wounded, in addition to the killing of a number of members of the Islamic State on Sunday, in a warplane attack likely to…
Summary
Published
29 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
1–2
Civilians reported injured
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
27 January 2017
Incident Code
CI440
Location
Mosul: West, Nineveh, Iraq
There were claims that up to 34 civilians died and 20 or more were injured following Coalition or Iraqi strikes on western Mosul. The Iraqi Spring Media Center reported that airstrikes had targeted residential neighborhoods and killed 32 people, including women and children. Yaqein news also put the death toll at 32. Shebab newsagency said…
Summary
Published
26 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
27–32
Civilians reported injured
5–20
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
27 January 2017
Incident Codes
CS462 TS066
Location
البزاعة, Al Baza'a, Aleppo, Syria
Up to four civilians were killed in alleged Coalition or Turkish airstrikes, according to sources. The Syrian Network noted that “four civilians (2 children and their parents) died when International Coalition warplanes missiles fired on Baza’a city in Aleppo governorate eastern suburbs.” However according to Ara News, “A statement issued by the Presidency of the…
Summary
Published
27 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
2–4
Military Actor
Turkish Military
,
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
27 January 2017
Incident Code
CS463
Location
شنينة, Shanina, Raqqa, Syria
Four civilians were reported killed – three of them possibly children – in alleged Coalition strikes on the village of Shanina. According to the Syrian Press Centre “Activists said aircraft believed to be from the international coalition targeted civilian houses in the village of Shanina with several air raids, which resulted in the deaths of…
Summary
Published
27 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
4
Civilians reported injured
7
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
26 January 2017
Incident Code
CS460
Location
الغكة, Al Ghakka, Al Hassakah, Syria
Claims that a ‘civilian car’ was targed by the Coalition near al Ghakka were later revised, after reports identified a named ISIL commander killed in the attack. Initially, al Hassakah Youth Union reported that “Coalition planes target a civilian car in al Ghakka village east of al Shadadi which led to the death of Ahmad…
Summary
Published
26 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
0–1
Civilians reported injured
0–3
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
26 January 2017
Incident Code
CS461
Location
هنيدة, Hunaida, Raqqa, Syria
Three civilians were reported killed in an alleged Coalition airstrike near Hunaida. According to the Syrian Observatory, “Explosions were heard in the western countryside of Al-Raqqah city, caused by bombing by warplanes believed to belong to the international coalition on an oil refinery area in Hunaida area at the countryside of al-Tabaqa, which injured several…
Summary
Published
26 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
3
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
26 January 2017
Incident Code
CI439
Location
الدواسة, Mosul, Dawassa area, Nineveh, Iraq
Baghdadia and Muez Al Ubiedi (Facebook) said that in the Wells and Dawasa neighborhoods two people were killed and fifteen wounded, mostly children. They blamed the US for the bombing. The Coalition has conceded the casualties. Al Rawed posted an Al A’Amaq [ISIL propaganda] video showing “the damage left behind by US aircraft [as it]…
Summary
Published
26 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
2
Civilians reported injured
15
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
26 January 2017
Incident Code
CI441
Location
Mosul, West / Right side, Nineveh, Iraq
Local sources said that 20 civilians were killed and 17 injured – mostly women and children – in Coalition airstrikes on residential areas at the right side of Mosul. Several sources reported that “US strikes” had targeted the neighbourhoods of Dawasa and Farouk, western Mosul.
Summary
Published
27 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
20
Civilians reported injured
17
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
25 January 2017
Incident Code
CS458
Location
سحل الخشب, Sahil al Khashab, Raqqa, Syria
Several civilians were reported injured following alleged Coalition airstrikes on Sahil al Khashab. According to Raqqa is Benig Slaughtered, “several civilians were injured following the targeting by the international coalition planes the village of Sahil al Khashab with an air raid.” All other sources reported similar.
Summary
Published
25 January 2017
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
25 January 2017
Incident Codes
CS459 TS062
Location
تادف, Tadif, Aleppo, Syria
Two named children died in either Turkish or Coalition airstrikes on Tadef. According to the Syrian Network “The children So’ad and Jonaid Fares Al Ali died after International Coalition warplanes missiles fired on Tadef town in Aleppo governorate eastern suburbs.” However according to al Bab News, “Turkish planes launched three raids at dawn today killing two from the family…
Summary
Published
25 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
2–3
Civilians reported injured
1
Military Actor
Turkish Military
,
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
25 January 2017
Incident Code
CI438
Location
Wadi Hajjar, Nineveh, Iraq
Three civilians were reportedly injured by ISF (or possibly Coalition) mortars according to eyewitness interviews by Amnesty International. A previously unpublished assessment which Amnesty shared with Airwars reads as follows: “On 25 January an ISF mortar [Airwars note: presumed – but possibly US, see below] landed on their house in Wadi Hajjar and caused it…
Summary
Published
25 January 2017
Civilians reported injured
3
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
24 January 2017
Incident Code
CS457
Location
ابو جدي, Abu Jeddi, Raqqa, Syria
One named civilian died during clashes between Kurdish and ISIL forces at Abu Jeddi. According to the Syrian Observatory, “a man from Abu Jedi village in the northern countryside of Al-Tabaqa west of Al-Raqqah was killed in bombing by warplanes yesterday on the area, it is believed that the warplanes belong to the International Coalition.”…
Summary
Published
24 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
22 January 2017
Incident Codes
TS057 CS455
Location
الباب, Al Bab city, Aleppo, Syria
Between six and 15 civilians died including two children and two women and 16 more were wounded in air or artillery strikes on Al Bab, Syria, according to local media - though it was unclear whether Turkey or the US-led Coalition were responsible. Al Bab 24 said that "Al Bab city was exposed to a…
Summary
Published
22 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
6–15
Civilians reported injured
16
Military Actor
Turkish Military
,
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
22 January 2017
Incident Code
CS453
Location
مزرعة الصفصاف, Al Safsaf farm, Raqqa, Syria
A young man died in an alleged Coalition airstrike on Al Safsaf farm, Raqqa, according to local sources. Mohab Nasser, an activist covering Raqqa news, reported that “the child Ammar Ahmad al Suleiman al Gharnouk, 10 years old, ded after being hit by shrapnel following a raid on al Safsaf farm in the eastern Tabaqa…
Summary
Published
22 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
22 January 2017
Incident Code
CS454
Location
النيرب, Al Nayrab, Idlib, Syria
Between three and five civilians including two children and one woman died and up to 20 others were injured in an alleged Coalition airstrike on Nayrab, according to local sources. The Coalition later denied involvement. The Syrian Network said “At least 3 civilians (two children and a woman) died in international Coalition warplanes missiles fired…
Summary
Published
22 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
3–5
Civilians reported injured
4–20
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
Incident Code
CS456
Location
near Al-Tabqah, Raqqa, Syria
Summary
Published
22 January 2017
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
21 January 2017
Incident Code
CS452
Location
الثورة, Tabaqah, Raqqa, Syria
One civilian died and six were injured in alleged Coalition airstrikes on Al Tabaqa, according to local sources. Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS) said that the Coalition launched raids “targeting the areas of the coach station and the market leading to the fall of a number of civilian wounded.” Step also blamed the Coalition,…
Summary
Published
21 January 2017
Infrastructure
Education
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
6
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
21 January 2017
Incident Code
CI436
Location
الرشيدية, Mosul, Al-Rashidiyah, Nineveh, Iraq
Local sources said that Coalition airstrikes targeted a car-bomb and house in Al-Rashidiya neighborhood, in the northeast of Mosul. This also caused the death of 15 civilians, many of them women and children. Ajel Al Mosul reported that “international Coalition airstrikes targeted a car-bomb in Rashidiya area, causing the martyrdom of a man and his…
Summary
Published
21 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
15
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
21 January 2017
Incident Code
CI437
Location
القائم, Al Qa'im, Al Anbar, Iraq
Local sources said that several people were killed in several alleged Coalition airstrikes on al Qaim city, west of Anbar. It was reported that Mustafa Hashim Mustafa Said Ahmed al-Rawi died as a result of the attack. News of Iraq said that “an entire family” died in the raids.
Summary
Published
21 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
2
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
20 January 2017
Incident Code
CS451
Location
الرقة, Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria
A civilian woman was killed following air raids by an unidentified belligerent on Raqqa city. According to LCCSY and other, “Mrs. Dalal Zare’ al Haj Ta’ama was martyred following raids on the city. The martyr is from Deir Ezzor province.”
Summary
Published
20 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
19 January 2017
Incident Code
CS450
Location
سويدية كبيرة, Sowaiydiya Kabira, Raqqa, Syria
Between one and five civilians died in an airstrike on Al Sweidiya Kabira according to local sources – though reports were conflicted as to whether the Coalition or “PKK militants” were responsible. Raqqa is Being Slaughtered reported: “The international coalition launched three air raids on the village of al Sweidiya kabira in the northern Tabaqa…
Summary
Published
19 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
1–5
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
19 January 2017
Incident Code
CI434
Location
القوسيات, Mosul, Alqosjat, Nineveh, Iraq
Press sources said that 34 civilians, including 21 children and a woman, were killed after airstrikes and artillery shelling targeted the neighborhoods on the left side of Mosul. A local hospital doctor told Alaraby that “nine dead [bodies] just arrived at the hospital, while the others are still under the rubble”.
Summary
Published
19 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
34
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
19 January 2017
Incident Code
CI435
Location
الرفاعي, Mosul, Rifai, Nineveh, Iraq
Local sources said 14 civilians were killed and 6 injured, mostly children and women, in Coalition airstrikes that had targeted their homes in Rifai neighbourhood northwest of Mosul. Iraqi Spring Media Center said that seven children, four women and three men were killed as a result of the bombing on their homes. On March 4th…
Summary
Published
19 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
14
Civilians reported injured
6
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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