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Incident Date
28 July 2016
Incident Code
CS286
Location
منبج, Manbij, Aleppo, Syria
Five or more civilians including three women were reported killed in an alleged Coalition strike in the al Rabita street area of Manbij town, scene of fierce ground clashes between ISIL occupiers and assaulting SDF forces. According to al Tokhar al Kabil, “members of the Karissli family have been martyred. They are Firyal Karissli and…
Summary
Published
28 July 2016
Civilians reported killed
5–7
Civilians reported injured
13
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
27 July 2016
Incident Code
CI269
Location
حي البكر, Hit, Bakir, Al Anbar, Iraq
An unspecified number of civilians was reported killed and injured during alleged Coalition airstrikes at Hit. According to the Iraqi Spring Media Centre, Coalition aircraft have struck the Bakir and Mahboubiya neighbourhoods in Hit in western Anbar, resulting in deaths and injuries. In the second of their March 2020 civilian casualty reports, the US-led Coalition…
Summary
Published
27 July 2016
Civilians reported killed
2
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
26 July 2016
Incident Code
CS283
Location
منبج, Manbij, Aleppo, Syria
An unspecified number of civilians was reported killed and injured, after Coalition aircraft allegedly struck a four storey building. According to Manbij Direct “Today the house of, Sheikh Ibrahim Al-Naimi was bombed. It is on al Bizar road near Omar Hajjo school, the former HQ for the al Karama battalion. A remarkable thing happened according…
Summary
Published
26 July 2016
Civilians reported killed
2
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
26 July 2016
Incident Code
CS284
Location
جقل, Al Jaql (Al-Kabirah), Aleppo, Syria
A child was killed and two or more civilians injured in an alleged Coalition strike on the village of al Jafil (or less likely al Hakal.) According to Shaam News “One child was martyred and others wounded when the same planes [as the previous event] bombed the village of al Hakal in the western countryside…
Summary
Published
26 July 2016
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
4
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
25 July 2016
Incident Code
CS282
Location
منبج, Manbij, Aleppo, Syria
An unspecified number of civilians was reported killed and injured during alleged Coalition airstrikes in support of heavy ground fighting in Manbij. According to blogger Hathifa al Yaman al Majd “Warplanes last night targeted Al Jilawi neighbourhood behind al Hawatma neighbourhood, on Jarablos road. Missiles hit civilian houses and destroyed seven houses in the area,…
Summary
Published
25 July 2016
Civilians reported killed
4
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
24 July 2016
Incident Code
CS280
Location
ميادين, Al Mayadin, Deir Ezzor, Syria
An alleged Coalition (or possibly Assad regime) airstrike on a fuel truck also killed two civilians and injured two more, according to reports. According to Al Hall, “Two civilians were killed and two others wounded, on Sunday afternoon, bombed by warplanes on the road in the Mayadeen desert east of Deir al-Zour). Abu Omar (a…
Summary
Published
24 July 2016
Civilians reported killed
2
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
24 July 2016
Incident Code
CS281
Location
منبج, Manbij, Aleppo, Syria
One or more civilian was killed and two injured in an alleged Coalition strike on the al Sarib neighbourhood of Manbij. Local blogger Hathifa al Yaman Abu al Majd reported: “Saif the son of Moussa al Hamdoush died due to being hit by shrapnel from raids that targeted al Sarib neighbourhood with ten missiles, targeting…
Summary
Published
24 July 2016
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
2
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
23 July 2016
Incident Code
CS278
Location
النواجة, Al Nawaja, Aleppo, Syria
As many as 22 civilians were reported killed at the village of al Nawaja, as the Coalition-supported offensive continued. However the Coalition later denied responsibility for the incident, noting that “the JCTF did not conduct any strikes in that geographic location.” According to one source, “al Nawaja village is divided into two neighbourhoods. The eastern…
Summary
Published
23 July 2016
Civilians reported killed
10–22
Civilians reported injured
15
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
23 July 2016
Incident Code
CS279
Location
منبج, Manbij, Aleppo, Syria
One adult civilian male was reported killed in a fresh Coalition strike on the besieged city. According to Manbij Direct, “Mohammad bin Ahmad Khaled al Othman died in coalition raids a few hours ago inside the city of Manbij. He is a civilian who doesn’t belong to any faction. Today the city of manbij has…
Summary
Published
23 July 2016
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
21 July 2016
Incident Code
CS277
Location
الحمر الشرقية, Hamr ar Shaqiya, Aleppo, Syria
A number of sources reported the deaths of three civilians in an alleged Coalition event, with two alleged victims named as Abu Shaman and his father. However a local Facebook site insisted the claims were “totally untrue… Everything is normal and nothing is happening.” According to Shaam News, “In the eastern countryside, battles are at…
Summary
Published
21 July 2016
Civilians reported killed
3
Civilians reported injured
3
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
20 July 2016
Incident Code
CS275
Location
منبج, Manbij, Aleppo, Syria
A report on August 5th 2016 by local blogger Hathifa al Yaman Abu al Majd claimed that approximately 15 civilians had died in a Coalition strike two weeks earlier, with their bodies still buried under rubble. “American Alliance planes – around 15 days ago – committed a massacre against three families opposite al Fatah mosque near…
Summary
Published
20 July 2016
Civilians reported killed
15
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
20 July 2016
Incident Code
CS276
Location
منبج, Manbij, Aleppo, Syria
In an incident which may relate to the previous report – or was unknown to Airwars – the Coalition announced in January 2017 that it was investigating a possible civilian casualty event near Manbij almost six months earlier. According to the initial statement “five reports of civilian casualties received in November are still being assessed……
Summary
Published
20 July 2016
Civilians reported killed
0–1
Civilians reported injured
0–1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
19 July 2016
Incident Code
CS273
Location
التوخار كبير, Tokhar Kabir, Aleppo, Syria
In what may have been the single greatest loss of life from a Coalition action in the first two years of its war against Daesh, between 78 and 203 civilians were reported killed in a catastrophic event at the village of Tokhar – the scene of a number of other recent civilian fatalities from alleged…
Summary
Published
19 July 2016
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Education
Civilians reported killed
78–203
Civilians reported injured
30
Military actors reported killed
85
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
19 July 2016
Incident Codes
CS273a RS1027
Location
إدلب, Idlib, Idlib, Syria
In what has been described as a massacre, committed by both Russian and Assad regime and coalition warplanes, between 10 and 23 civilians were killed and as many as 35 more wounded on July 19th in Idlib city. Other sources claimed that the Coalition was involved in the incident. According to Shaam News Network the…
Summary
Published
19 July 2016
Civilians reported killed
10–23
Civilians reported injured
30–35
Military Actor
Russian Military
,
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
19 July 2016
Incident Code
CI268
Location
الشرقاط, Al Shirqat, Salah Al Din, Iraq
One woman was reported killed and at least half a dozen civilians injured in an alleged Iraqi government or Coalition airstrike at Sharqat. The casualties were said to have occurred when a Daesh headquarters was bombed in the late morning. Al Samarra TV reported that three families were injured and one woman killed… after inaccurate…
Summary
Published
19 July 2016
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
6
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
19 July 2016
Incident Code
CS274
Location
ﺣﻠﺐ, Aleppo, Aleppo, Syria
A report on August 5th 2016 by local blogger Hathifa al Yaman Abu al Majd claimed that approximately 15 civilians had died in a Coalition strike two weeks earlier, with their bodies still buried under rubble. “American Alliance planes – around 15 days ago – committed a massacre against three families opposite al Fatah mosque…
Summary
Published
19 July 2016
Civilians reported injured
0–1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
18 July 2016
Incident Code
CS269
Location
التوخار كبير, Tokhar Kabir, Aleppo, Syria
Up to sixteen civilians including two or more children were reported killed in an alleged noon Coalition airstrike on Al Tokhar, a village near Manbij in northern Aleppo governorate. In its own report on the event the Syrian Network noted: “Fixed-wing international coalition forces warplanes fired a missile that targeted a residential house that is…
Summary
Published
18 July 2016
Civilians reported killed
8–16
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
18 July 2016
Incident Code
CS270
Location
حيمر لابدة, Haymar Labda, Aleppo, Syria
Four or more civilians were reported killed and others injured in what were described as heavy Coalition airstrikes on the village of Haymar Labda, as the battle to capture nearby Manbij intensified. ISIL’s media wing also issued a statement claiming “dead and injured and great destruction as a result of Coalition raids on the village…
Summary
Published
18 July 2016
Civilians reported killed
4–12
Civilians reported injured
14–40
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
18 July 2016
Incident Code
CS271
Location
منبج, Manbij, Aleppo, Syria
A single source reported the deaths of three named young children and the injuring of five more family members, in a fresh alleged Coalition casualty event at Manbij. In the second of their March 2020 civilian casualty reports, the US-led Coalition assessed reports that they were responsible for civilian harm in this strike as "non-credible",…
Summary
Published
18 July 2016
Civilians reported killed
3
Civilians reported injured
5
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
18 July 2016
Incident Code
CS272
Location
منبج, Manbij, Aleppo, Syria
The Manbij Documentation Agency initially claimed that “Sabr the son of Abdallah al Saidi and his family [7 people] were killed in coalition raids on his house near the education department behind his father’s building.” That claim was robustly denied by Manbij Mother of All Worlds: “We totally deny what some pages published yesterday about…
Summary
Published
18 July 2016
Civilians reported killed
0–7
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
17 July 2016
Incident Code
CS268
Location
منبج, Manbij, Aleppo, Syria
Fifteen or more civilians reportedly died in an alleged Coalition night time strike on the Al Hazwana neighbourhood of Manbij, according to multiple reports. Manbij Mother of all the World said the ‘terrible massacre’ took place near the al Karama school. The Syrian Observatory issued an urgent call to the Coalition and its allies: “We…
Summary
Published
17 July 2016
Civilians reported killed
15–16
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
17 July 2016
Incident Code
CS267
Location
منبج, Manbij, Aleppo, Syria
In a new reported Coalition civilian casualty event in Manbij on July 17th, five civilians reportedly died when airstrikes hit the city. All sources were agreed that the wife and two adult children of Al Haj Bahri al Darwish died. On March 10, 2022 in the CJTF-OIR Civilian Casualty Report, the Coalition reported this incident…
Summary
Published
17 July 2016
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
5
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
16 July 2016
Incident Code
CS266
Location
منبج, Manbij, Aleppo, Syria
An 80-year old man was reported by a number of sources as having been killed in one of multiple Coalition strikes on Manbij between dawn and noon. The strikes reportedly targeted both the Aleppo road and the al Hazwana neighbourhood in the city. According to Manbij Mother of the World, “planes carried out several raids…
Summary
Published
16 July 2016
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
16 July 2016
Incident Code
CI267
Location
الحويجة, Hawijah, Kirkuk, Iraq
An alleged Coalition strike targeted the house of an ISIL commander named as Abu Hajar, said to be from Diyala province, also reportedly killed his whole family according to a single source.
Summary
Published
16 July 2016
Civilians reported killed
3
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
15 July 2016
Incident Code
CS264
Location
منبج, Manbij, Aleppo, Syria
According to a single source, four civilians from one family were killed and 13 additional civilians injured following a Coalition airstrike. The Syria News Desk reported that “Coalition aircraft launched more than a dozen raids on Manbej, affected some national hospital west of the city perimeter, four of which targeted residential sites in the middle…
Summary
Published
15 July 2016
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
4
Civilians reported injured
13
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
15 July 2016
Incident Code
CS265
Location
منبج, Manbij, Aleppo, Syria
A young adult civilian male named as Ahmad Ibrahim al Faress was reported killed in a Coalition strike on Manbij. It is either the second reported event of the day in Manbij, or is linked to the previous incident. The Syrian Network reported Coalition strikes on the city that day but made no mention of…
Summary
Published
15 July 2016
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
14 July 2016
Incident Code
CS263
Location
منبج, Manbij, Aleppo, Syria
Continued heavy Coalition airstrikes on Manbij reportedly resulted in further heavy civilian casualties. According to Lens Young Manbij, “The family of Mahmoud Bin Ali al Manssini [the barber] was killed. The father is in a critical condition. The daughter of Safi Miassni was with them and she was also killed. Ahmad Bin Safi was lost…
Summary
Published
14 July 2016
Civilians reported killed
8
Civilians reported injured
3
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
14 July 2016
Incident Code
CI266
Location
القيارة, Qayyarah, Nineveh, Iraq
In an incident not previously tracked by Airwars, the Coalition later confirmed the injury of a civilian in an attack on Qayyarah. In November 2016, CENTCOM noted in their civilian casualty report that "during a strike on an ISIL-held building, it is assessed that one civilian was killed." In April 2017 the Coalition revised its…
Summary
Published
14 July 2016
Civilians reported injured
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
13 July 2016
Incident Code
CS261
Location
منبج, Manbij, Aleppo, Syria
Three civilians were reported killed in Manbij, either by Coalition aircraft or more likely, as a result of a Daesh-boobytrapped vehicle. As Lens Young Manbij reported, “Al Haj Mahmoud Sarmini, his wife and daughter Alaa Sarmini, 4 years old, were killed near al Fatah station. We don’t know whether it was an IS booby trap…
Summary
Published
13 July 2016
Civilians reported killed
3
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
13 July 2016
Incident Code
CS262
Location
منبج, Manbij, Aleppo, Syria
In a second alleged Coalition event in Manbij on July 13th, between 6 and 12 civilians were reported killed Manbij Direct reported “the death of the entire family of al Haj Hassan Abd al Rahman [Khalilo] the blacksmith in al Salaleen market as a result of the [air] raids and he himself is missing.” According…
Summary
Published
13 July 2016
Civilians reported killed
6–12
Civilians reported injured
10
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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