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Incident Date
11 November 2014
Incident Code
CS027
Location
منبج, Manbij, Aleppo, Syria
A number of sources cited SN4HR (in a report now lost) as claiming that two unnamed civilian males and one ISIL militant were killed in a coalition airstrike at Manbij, near Aleppo.
Summary
Published
11 November 2014
Civilians reported killed
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
11 November 2014
Incident Code
CS028
Location
الشنان, Shanan, Deir Ezzor, Syria
The Syrian Martyrs website claimed that a civilian male died in a coalition airstrike on the village of al Shanan near Dayr az Zawr. He was later named as Rashed Hamdan Al Abd Al Jassem. According to the Facebook page of local activist Abu Mohammad Al Dairi, al Jassem was one of 12 casualties from…
Summary
Published
11 November 2014
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
8 November 2014
Incident Code
CS024
Location
الخريطة, Khareeta, Deir Ezzor, Syria
Two civilian men were reported by a number of sources as having been killed in a coalition airstrike.
Summary
Published
8 November 2014
Civilians reported killed
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
7 November 2014
Incident Code
CS021
Location
دير الزور, Deir ez-Zor, Deir Ezzor, Syria
Five civilian men were reported by a single source to have been killed in a coalition strike on the city of Dayr az Zawr. They were named by the VDC.
Summary
Published
7 November 2014
Civilians reported killed
5
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
7 November 2014
Incident Code
CS022
Location
سعلو, Sillu, Deir Ezzor, Syria
Two non-combatant males were reported killed in a coalition airstrike on the village of Sa’alo.
Summary
Published
7 November 2014
Civilians reported killed
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
7 November 2014
Incident Code
CS023
Location
near At-Tanak Oilfield, Syria, Deir Ezzor, Syria
In its January 25th 2018 civilian casualty report, the Coalition reported that a civilian casualties allegation near At-Tanak is currently being assessed: “#1 Nov. 7, 2014 near At-Tanak Oilfield, Syria via regional human rights organization report.” Further research by our Syria team indicated that this incident was in fact previously known to Airwars, but had…
Summary
Published
7 November 2014
Civilians reported killed
3
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
6 November 2014
Incident Code
CS019
Location
حارم, Harim, Idlib, Syria
Six months after US air raids had targeted the Khorasan Group (part of the al-Nusra Front) and the militant group Ahrar al-Sham, the Coalition conceded that two children had “likely” died in the attack – the first public concession of any civilian deaths after 4,000 airstrikes against ISIS over nine months. The November 5th US-only…
Summary
Published
6 November 2014
Civilians reported killed
2–6
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
6 November 2014
Incident Code
CS020
Location
موقة, Muqah, Idlib, Syria
The Syrian Martyrs website claimed that up to four unnamed children under the age of 10 died in a coalition airstrike on Mouka – described as one girl and two or three boys. In contrast, the VDC lists three unidentified bodies (two adult males and one female child) noting that they were “Martyred due to…
Summary
Published
6 November 2014
Civilians reported killed
3–4
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
5 November 2014
Incident Code
CS018
Location
دير الزور, Deir ez-Zor, Deir Ezzor, Syria
An internal Coalition report noted that “Open source video indicated that three civilians were killed in a deliberate strike on an oil collection point in DeZ.” Airwars researchers have identified what they believe to be the [graphic] video in question, which was posted to YouTube on November 11th 2014. The Coalition was unable to verify…
Summary
Published
5 November 2014
Civilians reported killed
3
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
5 November 2014
Incident Code
CI015
Location
القائم, Al Qa'im, Al Anbar, Iraq
Witnesses from Al-Qaim alleged that coalition airstrikes targeted a civilian house at midnight, killing a father and his three children and leaving the wife with severe injuries. The man’s name was given as Mohammed Hammad Alhialy. This may or may not be related to an incident cited by the United Nations in its quarterly report…
Summary
Published
5 November 2014
Civilians reported killed
4
Civilians reported injured
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
4 November 2014
Incident Code
CI014
Location
القائم, Al Qa'im, Al Anbar, Iraq
An alleged coalition airstrike reportedly hit a market at Al Qaim in western Anbar, killing at least 3 people and injuring up to 35. Two of the victims were named as as Mohamed Ahmed and Ahmed Munir Khitab. Significant damage was reported at the scene. However, the coalition denies carrying out any airstrike in the…
Summary
Published
4 November 2014
Civilians reported killed
3–15
Civilians reported injured
14–35
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
28 October 2014
Incident Code
CS017
Location
سلوك, Suluk, Raqqa, Syria
An internal Coalition report, citing web sources, noted claims that civilian casualties had been alleged at Slouk “on a strike on some grain silos.” The aircraft was likely to have been a US armed drone, due to the Hellfire missile used. An initial investigation concluded that there had been no civilians injured: “The only strike…
Summary
Published
28 October 2014
Civilians reported killed
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
26 October 2014
Incident Code
CI013
Location
عوينات, Uwaynat, Nineveh, Iraq
There were claims that coalition air raids resulted in the deaths of between 10 and 20 civilians in a village 110km northwest of Mosul called Aouinat. Al Rafidain reported: "Press sources in Mosul confirmed that the bombing, which targeted the village of Aouinat killed ten civilians and destroyed at least two houses. The forensic medicine…
Summary
Published
26 October 2014
Civilians reported killed
10–20
Civilians reported injured
10
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
25 October 2014
Incident Code
CI012
Location
حاج علي, Hajj Ali, Nineveh, Iraq
Two civilians were reported by medical sources in the city to have been “accidentally killed” in an airstrike on a “Daesh stronghold in Qayyarah, Mosul“. However the Wameedh Sabah blog reported a security source as saying that the casualties were inflicted by an Iraq Army airstrike. Up to 81 alleged militants were also reported killed…
Summary
Published
25 October 2014
Civilians reported killed
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
18 October 2014
Incident Code
CS016
Location
المريعية, Mrey'iya, Deir Ezzor, Syria
According to the Damascus Centre for Human Rights two civilian males – both members of the same family – died in an airstrike on the village of Al Maya’iya. Syrian Martyrs also named the two victims, while the DinSyr twitter feed reported "Hamza Ahmad al-Abd Al Jalil Mahmoud Ahmad Al-Jalil. Their bodies were identified among…
Summary
Published
18 October 2014
Civilians reported killed
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
18 October 2014
Incident Code
CS015
Location
الشدادي, Shadadi, Al Hassakah, Syria
A single source, the Damascus Centre for Human Rights Studies, claims that one civilian, from Al Shadadi, Hasaka, in a coalition airstrike.
Summary
Published
18 October 2014
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
17 October 2014
Incident Code
CI010
Location
عوينات, Awinat, Nineveh, Iraq
According to news agency NINA, a “US air strike on the village of Aouinat northwest of Mosul killed five civilians, according to a source in forensic medicine in Mosul.” The Al Rafidain website (in a report dated ten days after the event) placed the death toll higher at between 10 and 20, saying two houses…
Summary
Published
17 October 2014
Civilians reported killed
5–20
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
17 October 2014
Incident Code
CS014
Location
خشام, Khusham, Deir Ezzor, Syria
An airstrike on a gas station near the Konoco gas refinery reportedly killed between three and four civilians. A subsequent investigation by the Syrian Network for Human Rights later noted: “Around 7:00pm the international alliance warplanes targeted a gas station and an oil well in Deir Ezzor countryside which is located near Khasham town. the…
Summary
Published
17 October 2014
Civilians reported killed
3–4
Civilians reported injured
11
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
17 October 2014
Incident Code
CI011
Location
البوعجيل, Bojeel, Salah Al Din, Iraq
Reports claimed that Coalition strike hit a mosque during Friday prayers in the town of Al Bojeel, to the east of Tikrit.
Summary
Published
17 October 2014
Civilians reported killed
10
Civilians reported injured
15
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
16 October 2014
Incident Code
CS013
Location
كبيبة, Kabiba, Al Hassakah, Syria
In a major night time coalition air raid targeting oil facilities used by Islamic State, five civilians including a 7- or 10-year old boy were reported killed. The dead were later named by various sources. In a detailed report on the event, SN4HR later noted: “Those civilians are from Kabiba town and they work on…
Summary
Published
16 October 2014
Civilians reported killed
5
Civilians reported injured
6
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
15 October 2014
Incident Code
CS012
Location
كۆبانی, Kobanî, Aleppo, Syria
A Kobanî official reported that a civilian – an 87 year old woman – and six Kurdish fighters from the Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG) died in a ‘friendly fire’ incident in the besieged city.It was also reported that two hospitals in the town had been destroyed. According to Sky News Arabia, Kurdish sources said that…
Summary
Published
15 October 2014
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
8 October 2014
Incident Code
CI008
Location
الموصل, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq
According to an unidentified international news agency cited in Foreign Policy, there were unconfirmed reports of possible civilian casualties at Mosul after coalition aircraft heavily targeted the city – though the agency was unable to verify further given the security situation: “We were never able to confirm it.” Perhaps linked to the above, CENTCOM noted…
Summary
Published
8 October 2014
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
8 October 2014
Incident Code
CI009
Location
الرمادي, Ramadi, Al Anbar, Iraq
An internal CENTCOM review identified potential civilian casualties from a Coalition airstrike on an ‘ISIL checkpoint’ west of Ramadi, which appears to have been carried out by Australian aircraft. According to the internal CENTCOM document, “On reviewing WSV [weapon system video] from AUS F18F” – an Australian Super Hornet – “it was apparent that a…
Summary
Published
8 October 2014
Civilians reported killed
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
7 October 2014
Incident Code
CS010
Location
حمام, Hamam, Raqqa, Syria
A number of sources named Khalil Ibrahim Al Sheikho.as a victim of a coalition strike on a village near Raqqah. Some of the sources mention another male [listed by Airwars as CS011] but it's not clear if the incidents are linked. One of the sources claimed that both males were in fact ISIS members -…
Summary
Published
7 October 2014
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
7 October 2014
Incident Code
CS011
Location
سلوك, Suluk, Raqqa, Syria
A number of sources reported that a named civilian male as being killed in a coalition strike on Slouk near Ar Raqqah. The sources mention another male [CS010] but it's not clear if the incidents are linked. One of the sources claims both males were ISIL members but the rest of the sources say they…
Summary
Published
7 October 2014
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
5 October 2014
Incident Code
CI007
Location
يت, Hit, Al Anbar, Iraq
It was reported by several sources in Hit that Coalition or Iraqi jets struck a number of civilian houses, killing up to 22 persons. Eight children and 3 women were reportedly among the dead. One of those quoted on the event was Nabil Souri, an Iraqi citizen working at Hit hospital, who learned that many…
Summary
Published
5 October 2014
Civilians reported killed
18–24
Civilians reported injured
43
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
28 September 2014
Incident Code
CS005
Location
الجسر العتيق, Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria
An alleged early morning coalition airstrike hit a small plastics factory on the Old Bridge Road in Ar Raqqah, the headquarters town of Islamic State in Syria. The strike reportedly killed the factory site’s young night watchman (or alternatively the owner). In what may be a separate incident in the city, the Syrian Martyrs website…
Summary
Published
28 September 2014
Civilians reported killed
1–2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
28 September 2014
Incident Code
CS006
Location
الرقة, Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria
Report of one civilian death as a result of coalition strike. Currently one source only. In July 2017 the Coalition said it had classed the event as non credible based on no evidence of civilian harm: “After a review of available information and strike video it was assessed that there is insufficient evidence to find…
Summary
Published
28 September 2014
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
28 September 2014
Incident Code
CS007
Location
منبج, Manbij, Aleppo, Syria
The US (possibly with Jordan and/or the UAE) bombed grain silos near Manjib. While CENTCOM insisted that the grain facilities were occupied by Islamic State forces, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that only civilians – workers at the silos – had been killed, although militants were also wounded. According to the Syrian…
Summary
Published
28 September 2014
Civilians reported killed
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
28 September 2014
Incident Code
CS008
Location
جرابلس, Road between Manbij and Jarabulus (Road 216), Aleppo, Syria
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a coalition airstrike “on Islamic State buildings” killed “several” civilians who were being held captive, as well as five Islamic State militants. The full translated quote from SOHR reads as follows: "Also at least five members of the Islamic State were killed and others wounded following a…
Summary
Published
28 September 2014
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
2
Civilians reported injured
2
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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