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Airwars assessment
Two civilians were killed and nine injured in an alleged Russian airstrike on Manbij, according to Al A’maq News and Shaam News Network.
SNN reported that the raid came as other areas in the countryside of eastern Aleppo (Maskaneh, Deir Hafer and Al Bab) faced Russian shelling but noted that despite these cities being under IS control the “Russian fighters are bombing only civilian homes and their markets“.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
Geolocation notes
Reports of the incident mention the city of Manbij (منبج), for which the generic coordinates are: 36.52815, 37.95495. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.
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Russian Military Assessment:
Original strike reports
For December 15th-16th 2015, Russia reported that “In the course of the last 24 hours, aircraft of the Russian air group in the Syrian Arab Republic have performed 59 combat sorties engaging 212 objects in the Aleppo, Idlib, Latakia, Hama, Homs, Hasakah and Raqqah provinces… In the Aleppo province, a Su-24 bomber made a strike on an ISIS concentration of manpower and military hardware. Objective monitoring data confirmed elimination of not less than 10 militants and 3 automobile vehicles with large-caliber machine guns.”