Airwars assessment
Fourteen named civilians were killed as missiles were reportedly fired at residential buildings in Abu al Duhur town in Idlib. There is dispute over whether the attack was carried out by Russia or the Syrian regime, with Al Jazeera blaming both.
According to All4Syria News, it was Russian warplanes that struck the area, and eight civilians were killed as a result. Shahba News also blamed Russia. Edlib Media blamed the Assad regime for the airstrike.
Step News reported that nine people were killed in the strike and also commented that most of the civilians killed were displaced from South Aleppo.
Baladi News Network – also pointing at the regime – put the death toll still higher, at 10 – with 10 more people wounded. The Syrian Coalition put the numbers till higher at 13 killed.
According to Step News a small boy was killed and his brothers were seriously wounded. A local source claims that may were wounded.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, “Warplanes carried out after midnight yesterday a raid on Ter’ei farms southeast of Khan Shekhoun city in the southern countryside of Idlib, while SOHR received information about the death of a child when warplanes bombed areas in the town of Abu al-Duhur in the eastern countryside of Idlib after midnight yesterday.”
The local time of the incident is unknown.
The victims were named as:
Family members (4)
- Bayan Ahmad Al Fawaz 7 years old killed
- Mahmood Fawaz Al-Ghubeiri 30 years old male killed
- Zeinab, wife of Fawaz Ghubeiri 65 years old female killed
- Khawla, daughter of Fawaz Ghubeiri 30 years old female killed
Family members (2)
- Hamida, wife of Abdul-Halim Khalaf 25 years old female killed
- Hamza Abdul-Halim Al-Hussein 15 years old killed
- Hamza Abdul-Halim Al-Dalish Age unknown killed
- Hamza Abdulhakim Dibish 15 years old killed
- Nour Ijsim Al-Umar Age unknown killed
- Abu Alzuhur Age unknown male killed
- Hussam Al Jassem Child killed
- Abu Al Duhur Age unknown male killed
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Original strike reports
On October 15th 2016, the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation published a report which stated that, "Today, the Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation General of the Army Sergei Shoigu headed a military-scientific conference titled “Military and political results of operation held by the Russian Armed Forces in Syria and main strategic conclusions”. In his speech, the Minister of Defence stated that possibility of incidence of such military conflicts remained at the same level. “In these conditions Russia is to adequately respond potential threats,” said General of the Army Sergei Shoigu."