Incident Code
RS1732
Incident Date
2 December 2016
Location
أورم الكبرى, Orme al Kubra, Aleppo, Aleppo, Syria
Geolocation
36.1475457,
36.9448239
Accuracy: Town
Geolocation
36.1475457,
36.9448239
Accuracy: Town
Airwars Assessment
Last Updated: July 23, 2025
(Previous Incident Codes: R1587RS1730)
Two or three civilians including a child and a woman died and up to five more were wounded in an alleged Russian airstrike on Orme al Kubra, according to local media.
LCCSY reported that a child and a woman died in a Russian airstrike.
Syria News Desk, however, put the death toll at three (including a child and a woman), adding that five more people were injured.
Key Information
Country
Military Actor
Civilian Harm Reported
Yes
Civilian Harm Status
Fair
Civilians reported killed
2–3
1 Child, 1 Woman
Civilians reported injured
2–5
Geolocation Notes
Reports of the incident mention the town of Orme al Kubra, Aleppo (أورم الكبرى ), for which the generic coordinates are: 36.1475457, 36.9448239. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.
Military Statements
Russian Military Assessment
Suspected belligerent
Russian Military
Russian Military position on incident
Not yet assessed
Russian Military Strike Report
Russia has not reported any specific strikes between December 1st – 31st 2016.
On 6 January 2017, Russia, however, reported: “Since November 8, 2016, the aircraft carrier group of the Northern Fleet consisting of the heavy aircraft carrying cruiser Admiral Kuznetsov, the heavy nuclear missile cruiser Pyotr Velikiy, the large ASW ship Severomorsk, as well as auxiliary vessels of the Black Sea Fleet, has been fulfilling counterterrorist missions on the territory of Syria”, adding that ”in the course of two months of their participation in the combat actions, naval aviation pilots have carried out 420 combat sorties, 117 of them were night ones.”
Additionally, Russia reported that its air forces have carried out strikes in Aleppo during November and December 2016.