A child uses his mobile device in the ruins of a building in Beit Lahia, Gaza Strip on May 26th 2021. © Mohamed Zaanoun
Local media reported that an unspecified number of civilians were wounded in an alleged Russian airstrike on al Bsheiriya, Jisr al Shoughour.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
Between four and eight civilians, including three to six children and one to two women, were injured in alleged Russian airstrikes on IDPs living in “Maryam” refugee camp on September 7, 2021.
Syrian Civil Defense (SCD) reported that four children and two women were injured in Russian air strikes targeting the outskirts of “Maryam” camp and Madjna, near the city of Maarat Misrin.
A tweet from @ZaitunAgency put the injury toll at five, including three children while @Najdat567 reported that “more than six civilians” were injured but did not specify how many. The lowest toll provided was that four civilians, three children and a woman, were injured, according the Anadolu Agency while the highest toll provided was eight civilians, including six children, one of whom was in serious condition, and a woman, according to Zaman Al Wasl.
@Almohrar1 provided the names of the civilians injured: Khadija Ziada, Reem Ziada, Aziza Ziada, Salaam Ziada. Nedaa Post added that Ali Abbas was also critically injured in the head and Reem (Al-Yousef) suffered multiple injuries and was in critical condition.
The director of “Maryam” camp, Ahmed Muhammad Abdul Rahman, confirmed in a call with Radio Al-Kul Al-Youm that the raids of the Russian warplanes resulted in the injury of a man, his wife and 4 children, all from one family. One of the children was transferred to Turkey due to the seriousness of his injury.
A video posted by the SCD rescuing a mother and her five children from under the rubbling following the strikes and they described “we rescue[d] those trapped under the rubble, there was a woman and two young girls, and their father was beside us all the time, waiting for us to see them”.
A tweet from @syria55s reported that following the strikes, Russian planes attacked the ambulance systems trying to reach and rescue the victims.
Muhammad Ali Pasha, a volunteer with the White Helmets, recounts that “within a few moments, I had to make a fateful decision, either evacuate the place and leave the children under the rubble, or put myself and my team in mortal danger” due to the continued reconnaissance planes waiting to retarget the area. When he arrived, he described “the voice of the children those who were crying under the rubble” and that he had to calm down the six year old girl under the rubble by telling her “how sweet she is and that she must be strong so that we can look at her and take her to her mother’s”.
The strikes occurred in “Maryam” refugee camp, which houses Internally Displaced Persons, and the strikes resulted in damage to several residents’ tents. Nedaa Post identified that five air strikes were carried out against the camp.
All of the sources that reported on the incident attributed the strikes to Russian forces and Macro Media Center specified that the Russian planes that carried out the strikes took off from the “Hmeimim” air base. 7al reported that the Russian forces used vacuum missiles in the attack.
The incident occured in the afternoon.
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Reports of the incident mention the Maryam camp, the generic coordinates for which are: 35.992606, 36.640529. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.
A male civilian, co-chair of the Deir Ezzor Civil Council, was shot and killed by alleged Coalition forces and/or Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in on October 27, 2021.
According to a tweet from @Sada_AlSharqieh, a media organization covering Eastern Syria, Samer Al-Abdullah, the co-chair of the Deir Ezzor Civil Council, in charge of running the affairs of the Health Committee in the Council, was killed in an airdrop operation carried out by the Coalition forces and Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
@DeirEzzor24 reported that Samer Al-Abdullah was killed by mistake when SDF forces were searching for a wanted person, adding that Samer was a member of the Future Syria Party affiliated with the administration.
The correspondent of the “Ein al-Furat” network said that the SDF Asayish carried out a landing operation to arrest a person named Shayesh al-Hassan. “When al-Hassan fled, the deputy co-presidency of the Deir Ezzor Civil Council, in charge of the affairs of the Health Committee, left his house, thinking that the shooting was on his house and that he should flee from it, which prompted the Asayish forces to shoot him, killing him instantly.” @baznewz named the target of the operation to be the sons of “Salem al-Baghdeh,” Abu Younis, a leader in the Islamic State.
However, @humam_isa reported that the shooting came after misleading information reached the Coalition forces. @Sada_AlSharqieh tweeted that Samer Al-Abdullah had been threatened by several parties who wanted him to leave work in the Civil Council and Nedaa Post stated that the SDF had arrested other members of the council. Ida2at even added that there were accusations that the SDF intended to kill Samer and it was part of an “assassination operation”. The “Al-Shaitat official” page quoted a source as saying that “Al-Abdullah is an educated person who knows that anyone who goes out during a raid or landing operation is targeted, and therefore he will not put himself at risk to look at the raid, which makes it likely that the cadres will arrange the operation to get rid of him.”
Sources were conflicted as to what time the event occurred, with @EuphratesPost pinpointing the raid to dawn while Jisr TV reported that the shooting occurred in the evening.
In a civilian casualty assessment released November 3, 2023, the Coalition classed this event as ‘non credible’, claiming that “After a thorough review of all CJTF-OIR strike and operation history, no strike or operation was identified +/-24 hours, in the vicinity of the allegation.”
The local time of the incident is unknown.
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Reports of the incident mention the village of Al Sabha (الصبحة), for which the generic coordinates are: 35.896421, 39.904919. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.
October 27, 2021, near Al Sabha, Syria, via Airwars report. After a thorough review of all CJTF-OIR strike and operation history, no strike or operation was identified +/-24 hours, in the vicinity of the allegation. 3313/CS1968 37SEV8166572838
One child was killed and at least another civilian was injured in alleged Russian, regime, or Iran shelling of the Al Wasata area on the outskirts of the city of Al Atareb on December 12, 2021.
Syrian Network for Human Rights reported that a 17 year old boy named Ismail Ahmad Barakat, from al Atareb city in the western suburbs of Aleppo governorate, was killed in Syrian regime artillery forces’ shelling of al Wasata area on the outskirts of the city.
@MasarPressNet mentioned that “others” were injured in the shelling but did not specify how many people while North Press Agency one person wounded in addition to the person killed.
Sources were conflicted about who was responsible for the shelling, with the majority of sources attributing the shelling to the regime, including North Press Agency pointing to regime forces stationed in the 46th Regiment, while @syria24news24 blamed Russia and @jabha_sy named Iran as the responsible party.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
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Reports of the incident mention the village of Al Wasata (الوساطة), for which the generic coordinates are: 36.113975, 36.843999. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.
According to local sources, the SDF, the Syrian regime, or the Syrian National Army targeted the city of Al-Bab with missiles and artillery, hitting a number of neighbourhoods in the city, located in the northeast of Aleppo, Syria, on February 2nd 2022. Five to ten civilians were reported killed and at least ten and up to 32 others were reported to have been injured.
SANA was the only local news outlet to report that it was a “mutual bombardment between the Turkish occupation and its terrorists from one side, and militants of QSD from another side.” Despite multiple sources attributing the attack to the SDF, it denied responsibility for this attack and blamed the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army. Reportedly, a representative from the Syrian National Army blamed the Syrian regime. Therefore this event has been recognised as “contested” in our archive, with sources attributing it to multiple belligerents.
The reported death toll was varied too. For example, the Syrian Civil Defense updated a post which said that the number they believed to have been killed was eight, and the number of those who were wounded was 24. France 24 reported that only five of those killed were civilians. This differs from many other local sources which put the number higher, up to ten civilians.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that seven died and 29 were wounded, while the Qasioun news agency, an activist collective, said eight people were killed and more than 25 were wounded.
In a statement from the “Syrian Interim Government”, it put the number of those killed at nine and injured at 31. They reported that the missile strikes came from Al-Shaala radar and Al-Nairabiya area, under control of the Syrian regime and the PKK/PYD militia.
Local sources which had lower estimates were Hawar News Agency, affiliated with the Autonomous Administration of Northeast Syria, who put the death toll as six and those injured at 15. @HoranFreeMedia put the death toll as five and injured at ten.
@DeirEzzorNow reported that Muhammad Abd al-Rassaq al-Sheikh Issa, a male, was killed, who was from the city of al-Mayadin. Three others who were injured were displaed from Deir Ezzor, from Al-Bukamal, identified as Yasser Al-Aseel (who was apparently taken in an ambulance to Turkey), male; Azzam Al Jaleed, male; and Abdulaziz Al-Debs, also male.
Al Bab reported the numbers of their estimates, nine killed and 30 wounded and were able to identify some civilians’ names. The civilians killed were reported to be: Zakaria Ragab (M), Taha Debek (M), Mohamed Sheikh Issa (M) (mentioned above, different spelling), Ahmed Al-Ali and five others who are unidentified. 22 names were known to be injured: Azam Al Jaleed (M) (mentioned above, different spelling), Hamza Al-Obaid (M), Younis Al Jassim (M), Salim Al Salim (M), Abdul Aziz Al Debs (M) (mentioned above, different spelling), Ahmed Jaboli (M), Yahya Al Shaoui (M), Amal Alfrej (F), Heba Al-Mohammed (F), Ahmed Hazoury, Arif Bakour (M), Rama Nassany (F), Muhammad Abdul Razzaq (M), Omar Faris (M), Abdul Jalil Fatyan (M), Alaa Arafat (M), Khaled Nazir (M), Abdul Ghani Hamidi (M), Ahmed Khaled (M), Ahmed Ghazal (M), Adel Shalash (M), Yasser Al-Aseel, (M) (mentioned above, different spelling).
Both Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Syrian Civil Defense reported that four months after the incident, a little girl named “Islam” died from her wounds sustained in the attack. Volunteer “Alaa Al-Salloum”, who was one of the volunteers who helped her after the attack, said “Islam entered a coma since then, it was I have a great deal of hope that she will recover, go to her school, receive evacuation with her friends, but she went to her school only… She went and I can’t see her anymore.”
Due to the seriousness of injuries, the death toll was reported as expected to rise and many of the injured were taken to the city’s main hospital. Although @DeirEzzorNow first estimated five deaths, they later updated their post and reported that ten people were killed, so this is reflected in the alleged death toll in this assessment. Halab Today TV put out a call for the Al-Bab city hospital’s appeal to donate blood.
The missiles were reported to have fallen on commercial markets and residential areas near the city hospital,which were “crowded with civilians.” 7al News reported from a witness that most of the shelling was carried out around the Olive Branch Roundabout, Zamzam street, Al-Nofoutiya Market, and Al-Ra’i street.
Euphrates Post reported that there was a “state of panic and tension prevailing the city” and the correspondent also reported that the bombing came from SDF military points staioned in the “Radar al-Sha’ala” area, west of the city of Al-Bab.
Issam al-Rayes, a displaced person in the city of al-Bab, spoke to “Al-Hol Net” noting that “today’s bombing is one of the most violent attacks that the city has been subjected to during the past year.”
A Syrian Civil Defense volunteer talked about the emergency response, “there was a girl less than ten years old, her mother and sisters standing next to her, unable to do anything. I immediately carried her to the ambulance. She didn’t get better from her face or her injuries.”
The Syrian Democratic Forces denied responsibility for this attack, saying that their reported responsibility was “fabricated and repeated allegations without evidence.” According to Enab Baladdi, the SDF “”stressed that its military forces had nothing to do with the bombing or other similar incidents that were exposed to the areas of influence of the Turkish-backed “Syrian National Army,” north of Aleppo governorate.” According to 7al, a source in the Ankara-backed “National Army”, who preferred not to reveal his name, told “Al-Hol Net”, that “the bombing in particular was from the village of Shaala, west of the city of al-Bab, specifically from the section under the control of the “Syrian Army”, while the “National Army” factions responded by bombing the rocket launchers with several artillery shells.
According to Orient, Military sources in the area accused the SDF militia “PYD” of being behind the missile shelling on the city, especially that the massacre came hours after a Turkish air bombardment targeted SDF positions in the countryside of Hasaka near the Iraqi border and other locations in Iraq, and the Turkish bombing resulted in killing Dozens of militia members were wounded.
According to the Syrian Civil Defense, “the city of Al-Bab is one of the largest cities in the eastern countryside of Aleppo, and it has become a last resort for a large number of displaced people from various Syrian regions, especially after the waves of displacement caused by the attacks of the regime forces and Russia in 2018 and 2019.”
The incident occured in the afternoon.
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Reports of the incident mention shelling in the vicinity of Olive Branch Roundabout (دوار غصن الزيتون،), Zamzam Street ( شارع زمزم،), Al-Nofoutiya Market (سوق النوفوتيه،), and Al-Ra’i Street in Al Bab (الباب). Analysing audio-visual material from sources, we have narrowed down the exact location of the strike to these coordinates: 36.373781, 37.517244.
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 strike video it was assessed that there is insufficient evidence to find that civilians were harmed in this strike.”
The Coalition shared the location of this assessed strike with Airwars. The location was stated as the Sekak neighbourhood in Mosul. This matches the location of a separate strike reported by Airwars (I489), also assessed as non-credible in the April 2017 civilian casualties report.
The strike was assessed as non credible based on the claim that “no Coalition strikes were conducted on that day in the geographic area of the reported civilian casualties.” However, the Coalition reported multiple strikes in Mosul that day.
No additional details are presently known.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
Attached to this civilian harm incident is a provisional reconciliation of the Pentagon's declassified assessment of this civilian harm allegation, based on matching date and locational information.
The declassified documents were obtained by Azmat Khan and the New York Times through Freedom of Information requests and lawsuits filed since March 2017, and are included alongside the corresponding press release published by the Pentagon. Airwars is currently analysing the contents of each file, and will update our own assessments accordingly.
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.
For April 9th-10th the Coalition publicly stated: “Near Mosul, five strikes engaged five ISIS tactical units; destroyed five fighting positions, five mortar systems, three medium machine guns, and a vehicle; damaged 22 supply routes; and suppressed four mortar teams.”
Four children were killed on their way home from school and others, including women, were wounded by alleged Russian or regime shelling of the town of Maaret Al Nassan on April 4, 2022.
Syrian Human Rights Committee reported that four children were killed by a bombing carried out by the regime forces “backed by the Russian and Iranian occupation”. The four children were killed by heavy artillery shelling at noon while they were returning from school.
The names of the children are: Yamen Juma Yassin, Hamza Mansour Aswad. Malek Anas Daoudi, Nasr Hajj Ahmed. Syrian Observatory for Human Rights specified that the students were under the age of 18.
Al Jazeera reported that in addition to the four children killed, “others” were wounded, but didn’t specify how many. Resala Post added that “among the wounded were women, some of them seriously”.
Syrian Network for Human Rights identified the location of the strikes as occurring in the al Shamali neighborhood of the village, adding that the regime forces used “shoulder-fired missiles”.
A video posted by Shaam News shows the father of one of the children killed in the attack crying over the body of his son. Syrian Civil Defense also pointed out that the children that were killed were carrying UNICEF notebooks distributed to them and images they posted show the notebooks covered in blood.
One of the Syrian Civil Defense volunteers named Laith Al-Abdullah who was involved in the rescue operation described “seeing a father kissing his son’s two legs while a man wrapped his son’s body and hugged her while he was talking to her and he was feeling and smelling her, and at the same moment a mother said goodbye to her son and called him kindly. Goodbye Yamo, greetings to all your loved ones who came here and preceded you, there were many harsh moments and many that burn the heart.”
Sources were conflicted as to who was responsible for the bombing, with the majority of sources referring to both the regime and Russian forces as responsible, while @Almohrar1 blamed only Russia and @AsharqNewsSYR blamed only the regime.
The incident occured at 12:00:00 local time.
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Two civilians were wounded in an alleged regime or Russian artillery or rocket strike on Kafr Zeita, according to sources on the ground.
The Local Coordination Committees of Syria reported that “two civilians were wounded as a result of artillery shelling targeting the town of Kfar Zeita in the northern suburbs of Hama.” Facebook page Kafar Zeita identified the injured as Abdul Karim Salloum and Mohammed Al Karim.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights was among many sources blaming the regime. However, Kafar Zeita pointed to Russia, reporting that “about 70 shells from the Russian camps in Kubaybat, Al Kabriya and Al Trabayah hit the city [Kafar Zeita] since the middle of last night [March 10th]. The shelling has so far wounded two people.”
Mahmoud Al Hamwi posted a video of shelling on Youtube, reporting it as “shelling of the checkpoints by the regime ‘s militia on the town of Kafr Zeita, in the countryside of Hama.”
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