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Incident Date
6 December 2015
Incident Code
CS153
Location
دير الزور, Deir ez-Zor city, Deir Ezzor, Syria
On Sunday, December 6, 2015, a woman and her two children were reportedly killed in an alleged Coalition airstrike on Deir Ezzor city, in northeastern Syria. Reuters cited the Syrian Observatory as reporting that “In Deir al-Zor city, another air strike overnight killed a woman and two of her children.” In comments relating to the…
Summary
Published
6 December 2015
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
3
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
5 December 2015
Incident Code
CI150
Location
الرمادي, Ramadi, Warrar, Al Anbar, Iraq
Local sources claimed that at least five civilians – mostly children and women from two displaced families – were killed and six to 12 wounded after an aerial bombing of their home in the Warrar area of Ramadi. Al Samaria quoted what it said was an anonymous source in the Daesh-occupied city: “Two missiles from…
Summary
Published
5 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
5–7
Civilians reported injured
6–12
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
3 December 2015
Incident Code
CI037
Location
حميدات, Humaidat, Nineveh, Iraq
Two children were reportedly killed in an alleged Coalition strike on the town of Hemidiat to the west of Mosul. According to Shafaqna and others, the strike hit the commercial district of the town: "The death of two children has beeen reported from an aerial bombardment by international Coalition aircraft west of Mosul. Early detection of…
Summary
Published
3 December 2015
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
2
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
2 December 2015
Incident Code
CI149
Location
راوة, Rawa, Al Anbar, Iraq
At least one civilian was alleged killed in a claimed Coalition airstrike at Rawa. According to Heet News a market and civilian homes were among the structures hit. Most media placed the death toll at one, though some reports claimed fatalities were as high as seven. In their January 2020 civilian casualty report, the US-led…
Summary
Published
2 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
1–7
Civilians reported injured
6
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
1 December 2015
Incident Code
CI148
Location
القيارة, Qayyarah, Nineveh, Iraq
Multiple civilian casualties were claimed in Qayyarah after the Coalition was accused of bombing civilian houses in the town. Face Iraq reported that seven children and an elderly woman died in the event, which it said destroyed six houses in the vicinity of the Khader mosque (which some sources said had also been destroyed). Three…
Summary
Published
1 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
0–8
Civilians reported injured
10
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
26 November 2015
Incident Code
CI147
Location
جامع خالد بن الوليد, Fallujah, near Khalid Bin Al Waleed mosque, Al Anbar, Iraq
Local sources in Fallujah alleged that Coalition aircraft bombed a house with three families inside near Khalid Bin Al Waleed mosque, killing at least 12 and wounding six more – mostly children and women. The reported 11.30pm airstrike caused multiple casualties, with many victims buried under a collapsed building. The Baghdad Centre for Human Rights…
Summary
Published
26 November 2015
Civilians reported killed
12–17
Civilians reported injured
6
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
26 November 2015
Incident Codes
CS152 RS0194
Location
الخفسة, Khafsa, Aleppo, Syria
Seven civilians were killed and several injured in an alleged Russian, Assad regime or Coalition airstrikes on Al Khafasa. According to Shaam News Network, significant damage was caused to a water purification plant in the village, after seven raids. It said the plant provided water to most of the Aleppo neighbourhoods. It was additionally claimed…
Summary
Published
26 November 2015
Civilians reported killed
7
Civilians reported injured
10
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
,
Russian Military
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Incident Date
26 November 2015
Incident Codes
CS151 RS0196
Location
الرقة, Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria
Five to eight civilians including four children were reported killed, and 10 injured, when Russian warplanes allegedly launched several rockets on Hetten School in Raqqa, according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights. Ara News also blamed Russia. Syria Press Report (citing the Syrian Observatory) placed the death toll at 12 and said the attack was…
Summary
Published
26 November 2015
Infrastructure
Education
Civilians reported killed
5–12
Civilians reported injured
10–12
Military Actor
Russian Military
,
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
25 November 2015
Incident Code
CI146
Location
الموصل, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq
A high-ranking officer with the Iraq Army was the reported source for a highly contested claim – most likely Daesh propaganda – that French aircraft had bombed a school in Mosul, allegedly killing 28 pupils. According to German news agency DPA, Brigadier-General Thanon Sabawi from the Second Division of the Iraqi Army claimed that “French…
Summary
Published
25 November 2015
Infrastructure
Education
Civilians reported killed
28
Civilians reported injured
5
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
24 November 2015
Incident Code
CI145
Location
أبو جربوعة, Abu Jarbua, Nineveh, Iraq
According to Iraqi MP Salim Jumah, five civilians from the Shabakian tribe were killed including three children and a woman, after Coalition aircraft allegedly bombed their house in Abu Jarbua village in Bashiqa, east of Mosul. Speaking to NRN News, the local Shabak Party MP called for compensation for those killed and naming them. In…
Summary
Published
24 November 2015
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
5
Civilians reported injured
3
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
24 November 2015
Incident Code
CS150
Location
العريشة, Al`Arishah, Al Hassakah, Syria
There were reports that two civilians named as Awwad Bandar Al Hamidi and his son (age presently unknown) Mahmoud Awwad Al Hamidi died after their vehicle was targeted by alleged Coalition aircraft on the road to Al Arisheh. Another source said the pair were on their way to the local cattle market when they died.…
Summary
Published
24 November 2015
Civilians reported killed
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
20 November 2015
Incident Codes
CS149 RS0181
Location
البوكمال, Abu Kamal, Deir Ezzor, Syria
The Violations Documentation Center listed five non-combatants, including two women and one child, as killed in an alleged Russian or Coalition airstrike near Al Bukamal. At least two of those killed were said to work for the local electricity company, who died when an oil tank was targeted. VDC named two male victims and additionally…
Summary
Published
20 November 2015
Civilians reported killed
5
Civilians reported injured
3
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
,
Russian Military
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Incident Date
20 November 2015
Incident Codes
CS148 RS0178
Location
الرقة, Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria
A number of sources reported that an adult woman from Soran in Hama governorate was killed in an alleged Coalition airstrike on Raqqah. Violations Documentation has published the name & photo of the victim which as said he was killed due to the coalition air force's shelling. In their January 2020 civilian casualty assessment, the US-led…
Summary
Published
20 November 2015
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
,
Russian Military
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Incident Date
20 November 2015
Incident Code
CI144
Location
الموصل, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq
In an incident which may relate to incident CI143 – or was unknown to Airwars – the Coalition announced in January 2017 that it was investigating a possible civilian casualty event near Manbij almost 14 months earlier. According to the statement “five reports of civilian casualties received in November are still being assessed… Sept. 20,…
Summary
Published
20 November 2015
Civilians reported killed
0–1
Civilians reported injured
0–1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
19 November 2015
Incident Code
CI143
Location
الموصل, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq
At least ten civilians were reported killed and 13 or more injured, after a Coalition strike at 8.30am which targeted a Daesh IED facility also reportedly hit a next-door dairy factory in Mosul. According to the local Nineveh Reporters’ Network, the attack “killed all elements of the organization [Daesh] who were inside the booby-trapping plant,…
Summary
Published
19 November 2015
Civilians reported killed
5–13
Civilians reported injured
13–28
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
18 November 2015
Incident Codes
CS147 RS0168
Location
البوكمال, Al Bukamal, Deir Ezzor, Syria
According to the Violations Documentation Center and others, six civilian males were reported killed in an alleged Russian airstrike in the vicinity of the Aisha hospital in Al Bukamal. According to Deir Ezzor 24, eight rockets or missiles were launched on the town. However, the Syrian Observatory has attributed the attack to the US-led Coalition.…
Summary
Published
18 November 2015
Civilians reported killed
6
Military Actor
Russian Military
,
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
18 November 2015
Incident Codes
CS146 RS0165
Location
الرقة, Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria
Reports indicated that Coalition aircraft had killed up to ten civilians in Raqqa in an evening strike. According to local monitors Raqaa is Being Slaughtered Silently, seven were killed and eight injured after a civilian fuel facility was bombed in the Brigade 17 area of the city. A graphic video by Daesh propagandists Al A’maq…
Summary
Published
18 November 2015
Civilians reported killed
7–10
Civilians reported injured
8
Military Actor
Russian Military
,
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
17 November 2015
Incident Code
CI142
Location
حمام العليل, Hamam al Alil, Nineveh, Iraq
A doctor was reported killed and three of his colleagues injured after an alleged Coalition strike near Mosul. According to the Iraqi state news agency NINA, “a doctor was martyred and three other doctors were wounded in bombing which targeted health centers in the Hamam al-Alil area, and also hit uninhabited residential buildings close to…
Summary
Published
17 November 2015
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
3
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
16 November 2015
Incident Code
CI140
Location
الموصل, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq
Between 7 and 12 civilians were reported killed following an alleged Coalition strike on the Directorate of Agriculture in Mosul. A further 28 to 39 people were reported injured. The incident took place in the Al Faisaliah area of eastern Mosul, and according to reports, most if not all of those killed had no links…
Summary
Published
16 November 2015
Civilians reported killed
7–18
Civilians reported injured
28–39
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
16 November 2015
Incident Code
CI141
Location
الرمادي, Ramadi, Al Anbar, Iraq
A family of six was reportedly killed after an alleged Coalition airstrike was said to have destroyed a car in the centre of Ramadi. The source of the claim appeared to be the Russian Sputnik news service, which said those killed “are from poor families, unable to flee and under the control of Daesh in…
Summary
Published
16 November 2015
Civilians reported killed
6
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
14 November 2015
Incident Code
CS144
Location
الرقة, Ar Raqqah [exact location], Raqqa, Syria
At least three civilians died in a Coalition airstrike on Raqqa, the alliance later confirmed. At the time the Syrian Observatory cited “reliable sources’ as saying that “Coalition warplanes targeted a heavy machine gun for IS near al-Nour mosque but missed the target and killed 3 people at least by opening fire on a house.”…
Summary
Published
14 November 2015
Civilians reported killed
3
Civilians reported injured
1–2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
12 November 2015
Incident Code
CI139
Location
الرمادي, Ramadi, Al Anbar, Iraq
In a previously unknown casualty event, CENTCOM confirmed on April 22nd 2016 that one civilian was killed during a US airstrike at Ramadi. According to the official release, “On Nov. 12, 2015, in Ramadi, Iraq, during a strike targeting ISIL fighters, it is assessed that one civilian was killed.” There were no reports of civilian…
Summary
Published
12 November 2015
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
11 November 2015
Incident Code
CI138
Location
الموصل, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq
Seven civilians from the same family were reported killed in the second day of alleged Coalition strikes to the south of Mosul. In their January 2020 civilian casualty report, the US-led Coalition assessed reports that they were responsible for civilian harm in this strike as "non-credible", stating that no Coalition actions were conducted in the…
Summary
Published
11 November 2015
Civilians reported killed
7
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
10 November 2015
Incident Code
CI137
Location
الرفاعي, Rifai (Mosul), Nineveh, Iraq
There were claims that 12 primary school children were injured following an alleged Coalition airstrike at Rifai, west of Mosul. No other details are presently available. In their January 2020 civilian casualty report, the US-led Coalition assessed reports that they were responsible for civilian harm in this strike as "non-credible", stating that no Coalition actions…
Summary
Published
10 November 2015
Civilians reported injured
12
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
10 November 2015
Incident Code
CS143
Location
البوثة, Bootha, Al Hassakah, Syria
Up to nine civilians from two families were killed in an alleged Coalition dawn strike at the small village of al Bootha – near to the Tishreen oilfield, and close to the scene of fierce clashes between Kurdish ground forces and Daesh. The Union of Hassakah Youth initially attributed the attack to the Forces for…
Summary
Published
10 November 2015
Civilians reported killed
7–9
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
8 November 2015
Incident Code
CI136
Location
القيارة, Qayyarah, Nineveh, Iraq
Locals claimed that up to 13 civilians were killed – including six children – and another five injured after the Coalition allegedly bombed a residential neighborhood in Qayyarah in Mosul. DPA also said four Daesh fighters were killed in the attack, which "destroyed about 18 tankers loaded with oil in an attack on an ISIL-occupied…
Summary
Published
8 November 2015
Civilians reported killed
11–13
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
7 November 2015
Incident Code
CI135a
Location
Qayarrah, Nineveh, Iraq
According to a field investigation conducted by reporters Azmat Khan and Anand Gopal for the New York Times Magazine, one civilian was killed and one injured by a Coalition airstrike on Qayyarah - both of them young children. The Coalition admitted the casualties in early 2020. Khan and Ghopal report the following: “Tibea Alla, a…
Summary
Published
7 November 2015
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
1
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
5 November 2015
Incident Code
CI135
Location
الموصل, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq
Heavy Coalition airstrikes on Mosul resulted in a number of civilian casualties, according to reports. Face Iraq said medical sources in the city reported no fatalities. However three civilians were said to have been injured after an airstrike hit a Daesh prison in the western Badush area of the city. And one student was said…
Summary
Published
5 November 2015
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
3
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
4 November 2015
Incident Code
CI133
Location
حمام العليل, Hamam al Alil, Nineveh, Iraq
Five non-combatants were reportedly killed and four more injured after an alleged Coalition airstrike hit a home at Hammam al-Alil. According to NINA, “international Coalition aircraft bombed residential neighborhoods in the Hamam al-Alil area, and the shelling resulted in the deaths of five civilians, including a child, and the wounding of four others.” A Daesh…
Summary
Published
4 November 2015
Civilians reported killed
5
Civilians reported injured
4
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
4 November 2015
Incident Code
CI134
Location
الحويجة, Hawijah, Kirkuk, Iraq
In a casualty event previously unknown to Airwars, CENTCOM confirmed on April 22nd 2016 that two civilians were injured during a US airstrike at Huwaijah. According to the official release, “On Nov. 4, 2015, in Al Huwayjah, Iraq, during a strike on an ISIL vehicle, it is assessed that two civilians were injured. The incident…
Summary
Published
4 November 2015
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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