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Incident Date
5 June 2015
Incident Code
CI071
Location
Anah al Jadidah, Al Anbar, Iraq
عنه
A young man, Mustafa Tarif Habib al-Ani (pictured below) was reportedly killed along with three or four of his relatives in an alleged coalition airstrike. According to the Iraqi Spring site, the family home was struck “near Rabe’e Sooq in the Rasil Gharbi area of Anah district, in western Anbar.”
Summary
Published
5 June 2015
Civilians reported killed
4–5
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
3 June 2015
Incident Code
CI070
Location
Hawijah, industrial district, Kirkuk, Iraq
الحويجة
A Coalition airstrike on an Islamic State depot levelled a significant number of buildings, killing an estimated 85 civilians and a large number of militants. A large supply of TNT explosive detonated after the IED-making facility was struck. Bas News described the attack as one of the worst mass casualty incidents in Iraq since the…
Summary
Published
3 June 2015
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
70–85
Civilians reported injured
80–100
Military actors reported killed
80–100
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
3 June 2015
Incident Code
CS073
Location
Umm Hajarah, Al Hassakah, Syria
أم حجرة
Three civilian men were reported killed in a combined ground and air assault on the village of Umm Hajra. The Hassakah Youth Union blamed the attack jointly on Kurdish ground forces – which it said had mortared the town – as well as Coalition airstrikes: “This is even though the village is free from the…
Summary
Published
3 June 2015
Civilians reported killed
3
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
Incident Code
CI069
Location
Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq
الموصل
A single source claimed that 11 civilians “including women and children” died when coalition aircraft struck targets to the east of Mosul. No further details were given. In July 2017, the Coalition classed the event as non credible on grounds of available evidence: “May 31, 2015, near Mosul, Iraq, via Airwars report: The report contained…
Summary
Published
31 May 2015
Civilians reported killed
11
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
26 May 2015
Incident Code
CS071
Location
Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria
الرقة
During a series of Coalition airstrikes against Islamic State in the vicinity of Ar Raqqah, a checkpoint was bombed at around 2pm. According to reports, a minibus carrying female agricultural workers was caught in the blast, killing between 6 and 10 women and reportedly injuring at least four. All of the female victims were reported…
Summary
Published
26 May 2015
Civilians reported killed
6–12
Civilians reported injured
4–10
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
26 May 2015
Incident Code
CS072
Location
Road between Al I'dwania and Raja’an, Al Hassakah, Syria
رأس العين
A number of sources reported that a “civilian car” was struck “on the road between Al I'dwania and Raja’an,” near Al Hassakah, killing a family of four. Those killed were described as a man, his wife, mother and daughter – all from the village of Raja A’an in Ras al-Ain.
Summary
Published
26 May 2015
Civilians reported killed
4
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
24 May 2015
Incident Code
CS070
Location
Abu Sheikhat, Al Hassakah, Syria
أبو شاخات
A Kurdish ground offensive backed by Coalition strikes reportedly killed six civilians in Abu Sheikhat and Tal Nass villages, to the west of Ras al-Ain. Among those reported killed at Abu Sheikhat were a young female child and three non combatant men. At nearby Tal Nass village, Adalah also alleged that two children were killed…
Summary
Published
24 May 2015
Civilians reported killed
6
Civilians reported injured
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
21 May 2015
Incident Code
CI068
Location
Mosul, near Bahauddin mosque, Nineveh, Iraq
الموصل
Summary: A devastating airstrike on the Mosul neighbourhood of Rifai reportedly killed numerous non-combatants and injured up to 150 people. Among those killed in the event was Ayman al Hayali (who ran a clothing shop) and his family, including his wife and young son. Other sources claimed that 5 women and at least 3 children…
Summary
Published
21 May 2015
Civilians reported killed
12–50
Civilians reported injured
30–150
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
20 May 2015
Incident Code
CS069
Location
Tawama, Aleppo, Syria
التوامة
According to Al Jazeera and others, a Coalition strike on the al Nusra Front at al Tawama destroyed a number of civilian buildings, killing as many as seven inhabitants. Fifteen alleged militants – most described as ‘Turks’ – also died in the attack which reportedly struck two separate locations in the village. According to Sana…
Summary
Published
20 May 2015
Civilians reported killed
1–11
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
19 May 2015
Incident Code
CS068
Location
Tal Majdal, Al Hassakah, Syria
تل مجدل
An alleged 10am Coalition targeted strike on a vehicle carrying ISIL militants (including prominent Egyptian Abu Abdul Rahman) also killed three nearby civilians, according to SN4HR. However another source described the attack as being carried out by a booby-trapped motorbike. One victim was identified as the owner of a generator repair shop in the marketplace where…
Summary
Published
19 May 2015
Civilians reported killed
3
Civilians reported injured
15
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
13 May 2015
Incident Code
CI067
Location
Masahag, Salah Al Din, Iraq
بيجي
Six members of one family were reported killed when a Coalition drone allegedly struck a vehicle distributing oil products to local people. Responding to questions from Airwars, an MoD spokesman said that no British Reaper drone strike took place in the vicinity of al Masahag on that date. Bayji’s Mayor, Mohamed Mahmoud said in an…
Summary
Published
13 May 2015
Civilians reported killed
6
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
8 May 2015
Incident Code
CS067
Location
Tal Majdal, Al Hassakah, Syria
تل مجدل
A 10 year old boy from the village of Tal Majdal, was reported killed at around noon in a Coalition airstrike according to a number of sources, after being hit by shrapnel. In February 2019, the Coalition assessed this event as non-credible. Their report noted: "After review of all available strike records it was determined…
Summary
Published
8 May 2015
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
6 May 2015
Incident Code
CS066
Location
Al-Gharah, Al Hassakah, Syria
الغرة
A 65-year old man was killed in an alleged Coalition strike according to two separate investigations by international news organisations. According to his son Ahmed, Mr Hassan was walking to work in his village when shrapnel from a Coalition strike punctured his heart and leg and killed him: “He didn’t support any group,” Hassan told…
Summary
Published
6 May 2015
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
30 April 2015
Incident Code
CS065
Location
Jubb Mahli (Ber Mahli), Aleppo, Syria
بئر محلي
In one of the worst reported incidents in nine months of bombings by the US-led Coalition, 64 civilians were said to have died in an attack on the village of Ber Mahli near Sareen – the majority of them women (19) and children (32). It remains disputed as to whether the village was partly or…
Summary
Published
30 April 2015
Civilians reported killed
64
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
29 April 2015
Incident Code
CI065
Location
Fallujah, Jughaifi, Al Anbar, Iraq
حي الجغيفي
According to local reports, coalition airstrikes killed nine civilian non-combatants and injured three more in Al Sharika Street, Aljughaifi neighborhood. The dead were named by the Iraqi Revolution website as “belonging to the family of Khamis Sufook al-Jumaili, killing him and his wife and her sister, their sons and daughters, as well as his brother…
Summary
Published
29 April 2015
Civilians reported killed
9
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
29 April 2015
Incident Code
CI066
Location
Roumana, Al Anbar, Iraq
الرمانة
Four coalition strikes allegedly hit the village of Roumana near al Qaim, in Anbar province. According to the Baghdad Center for Human Rights, an unspecified number of non-combatants died in the event. Islamic State may have been the source for those claims, which it made on one of its websites.
Summary
Published
29 April 2015
Civilians reported killed
2
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
26 April 2015
Incident Code
CS064
Location
Mitras, Aleppo, Syria
متراس
Reported Coalition airstrikes at 11 am on the village of Mitras killed three civilians, according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights. These were identified as an adult male, a teenager and a child. This event bears a resemblance to an April 19th incident at the same location (CS063) in that the victims are from…
Summary
Published
26 April 2015
Civilians reported killed
3
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
22 April 2015
Incident Code
CI064
Location
Mosul, Bareed, Nineveh, Iraq
الموصل
At least four civilians died in a Coalition airstrike on the Bareed quarter of Mosul. A home was completely destroyed in the event, killing four members of one family. One report also named a fifth family member, a young disabled girl named Sadra (cousin to Abdullah) as being killed. However as the Fiscal Times noted,…
Summary
Published
22 April 2015
Civilians reported killed
4
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
21 April 2015
Incident Code
CI063
Location
Mosul, East, Nineveh, Iraq
الموصل
A claimed coalition airstrike on the centre of Mosul killed up to 23 militants and five or more non-combatants according to reports, after four homes were destroyed. NINA cited a medical source as saying that 23 civilians died when aircraft struck the Mdaana neighbourhood – though this appears to be a mis-cite of other casualties…
Summary
Published
21 April 2015
Civilians reported killed
5–9
Civilians reported injured
12
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
Incident Code
CI062
Location
near Qayyarah, Nineveh, Iraq
القيارة
Summary
Published
20 April 2015
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
20 April 2015
Incident Code
CI060
Location
Mosul, Aden, Nineveh, Iraq
الموصل
A reported Coalition airstrike on an electricity generating facility reportedly killed up tp 35 civilians and injured 22 more when nearby apartments were caught in the blast, according to reports. The US led Coalition later conceded 18 deaths in this event. At the time of the incident, NINA cited a medical source at the hospital…
Summary
Published
20 April 2015
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
18–35
Civilians reported injured
22–50
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
20 April 2015
Incident Code
CI061
Location
Fadhiliya, Nineveh, Iraq
فايده
An airstrike on the village of Fadiliya near Bashiqa, north of Mosul, killed between 5 and 11 civilians according to reports. NINA, citing a peshmerga source, said that three Daesh militants and 11 non-combatants died in a coalition strike. In contrast Arb-q cited a security source as saying that an unidentified airstrike had killed “five…
Summary
Published
20 April 2015
Civilians reported killed
5–11
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
19 April 2015
Incident Code
CS063
Location
Mitras, Aleppo, Syria
متراس
A shepherd was reported by the Syrian Network as having been killed in a Coalition airstrike near Mitras. Five other people were injured by shrapnel. The victim's son later described retrieving his father’s body: “The rocket caused a great hole in the ground, almost two metres deep. I buried my father’s body in the town.“…
Summary
Published
19 April 2015
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
5
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
19 April 2015
Incident Code
CI059
Location
Ar Rutbah, Al Anbar, Iraq
الرطبة
In a likely US or British drone strike, a truck was inadvertently hit during an airstrike at Ar Rutbah, according to a declassified CENTCOM report. “2 seconds prior to weapon impact, a large truck inadvertently arrived at the checkpoint. The back section of the truck was possibly damaged during the strike.” The driver was observed…
Summary
Published
19 April 2015
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
12 April 2015
Incident Code
CI058
Location
Hawijah, Kirkuk, Iraq
الحويجة
Internal monitoring by the Coalition initially identified two possible civilian casualties from an airstrike at Hawijah. The attack, on a High Value target code-named ANDERS MESA, was carried out by an A-10 Warthog. According to a CENTCOM report declassified in September 2015, “2 civilians unseen in the collateral calls may have been killed or injured…
Summary
Published
12 April 2015
Civilians reported killed
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
Incident Code
CI057
Location
Mosul, Maydan neighborhood, Bab Lagash, Aqaydat, Wadi Hajar, Denden and Tayyaran, Nineveh, Iraq
الموصل
According to NINA, an intensive airstrike by the Coalition at dawn killed 11 civilians and injured a further four in Mosul. Strikes reportedly hit the neighbourhoods of Maydan, Bab Lagash, Aqaydat, Wadi Hajar, Denden and Tayyaran. The news website Ajyal reported that up to 30 people had died in an airstrike on a juvenile prison…
Summary
Published
8 April 2015
Civilians reported killed
11–15
Civilians reported injured
4
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
4 April 2015
Incident Code
CI056
Location
Fadhiliya, Nineveh, Iraq
فايده
Five Kurdish non-combatants, all from the same family, died in a reported Coalition strike on the village of Fadhiliyah, near Mosul. A major field investigation by the Guardian later identified the dead. Three family members survived the attack though were injured. Rahim, an eyewitness and relative, told the Guardian: “We wrapped the dead in blankets…
Summary
Published
4 April 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
3 April 2015
Incident Code
CI055
Location
Al Waelyiah, Nineveh, Iraq
الوائلية
Abdarahman Alloizi MP, a deputy in the Iraqi parliament, claimed that as many as 26 civilians from one family died, when the coalition struck a house near Mosul, in the village of Al Waeliyah. No additional details are presently known.
Summary
Published
3 April 2015
Civilians reported killed
26
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
Incident Code
CI054
Location
Tall Afar, Nineveh, Iraq
تل عفر
According to an internal CENTCOM document, according to a self-reported night time incident involving an American aircraft may have caused civilian casualties: “US F-16 may have unintentionally struck the nearest collateral object (NCO) and unintentionally struck a car that moved into the FOV [field of view.]“ The outcome of any investigation at the time the…
Summary
Published
28 March 2015
Civilians reported killed
0–1
Civilians reported injured
0–1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
25 March 2015
Incident Code
CI053
Location
Fallujah, multiple neighbourhoods, Al Anbar, Iraq
الفلوجة
Local residents reported that seven civilians died in a coalition airstrike on Fallujah, with 22 more injured. There were claims that a number of neighbourhoods were hit, including in the west and south of the city. A resident of Fallujah of unknown status, named as Shawki Al-Abdal Saidi, put out a press statement claiming that…
Summary
Published
25 March 2015
Civilians reported killed
7
Civilians reported injured
22
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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