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(Previous Incident Codes: R2285RS2430)
Warplanes conducted airstrikes on an internally displaced persons camp by the Euphrates river in the village of Al-Masrab on September 12th 2017. Euphrates Post was the only source to report this event. The source reported civilian casualties, but the identities or number of those killed or wounded is unknown.
No belligerent was directly blamed by sources on the ground, but Russian forces, the Syrian regime and its militias were reportedly active in the area at the time. Therefore, this incident has been graded as “contested”.
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Reports of the incident mention the village of Al-Masrab (قرية المسرب), for which the generic coordinates are: 35.5207354, 39.887538. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.