Incident date
June 8, 2015
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الموصل, Mosul, Zuhour and other neighbourhoods, Nineveh, IraqIn January 2016, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq reported that it had learned of a major civilian casualty incident in Mosul on June 8th 2015, though had been unable either to verify the claim or attribute responsibility to any party: “On 8 June, local sources reported that an airstrike in Mosul, Ninewa, caused
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June 5, 2015
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عنه, Anah al Jadidah, Al Anbar, IraqA young man, Mustafa Tarif Habib al-Ani (pictured below) was reportedly killed along with three or four of his relatives in an alleged coalition airstrike. According to the Iraqi Spring site, the family home was struck “near Rabe’e Sooq in the Rasil Gharbi area of Anah district, in western Anbar.”
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June 3, 2015
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أم حجرة, Umm Hajarah, Al Hassakah, SyriaThree civilian men were reported killed in a combined ground and air assault on the village of Umm Hajra. The Hassakah Youth Union blamed the attack jointly on Kurdish ground forces – which it said had mortared the town – as well as Coalition airstrikes: “This is even though the village is free from the
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May 19, 2015
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تل مجدل, Tal Majdal, Al Hassakah, SyriaAn alleged 10am Coalition targeted strike on a vehicle carrying ISIL militants (including prominent Egyptian Abu Abdul Rahman) also killed three nearby civilians, according to SN4HR. However another source described the attack as being carried out by a booby-trapped motorbike. One victim was identified as the owner of a generator repair shop in the marketplace where
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April 20, 2015
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فايده, Fadhiliya, Nineveh, IraqAn airstrike on the village of Fadiliya near Bashiqa, north of Mosul, killed between 5 and 11 civilians according to reports. NINA, citing a peshmerga source, said that three Daesh militants and 11 non-combatants died in a coalition strike. In contrast Arb-q cited a security source as saying that an unidentified airstrike had killed “five
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Incident date
April 8, 2015
LOCATION
الموصل, Mosul, Maydan neighborhood, Bab Lagash, Aqaydat, Wadi Hajar, Denden and Tayyaran, Nineveh, IraqAccording to NINA, an intensive airstrike by the Coalition at dawn killed 11 civilians and injured a further four in Mosul. Strikes reportedly hit the neighbourhoods of Maydan, Bab Lagash, Aqaydat, Wadi Hajar, Denden and Tayyaran. The news website Ajyal reported that up to 30 people had died in an airstrike on a juvenile prison
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March 25, 2015
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الفلوجة, Fallujah, multiple neighbourhoods, Al Anbar, IraqLocal residents reported that seven civilians died in a coalition airstrike on Fallujah, with 22 more injured. There were claims that a number of neighbourhoods were hit, including in the west and south of the city. A resident of Fallujah of unknown status, named as Shawki Al-Abdal Saidi, put out a press statement claiming that
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Incident date
March 6, 2015
LOCATION
الفلوجة, Fallujah, al Karma General Hospital, Al Anbar, IraqAn alleged coalition air strike on Garma hospital in east Fallujah reportedly killed one doctor and injured five other medical staff. According to Al Sumaria TV, one source stated that “the bombing of the hospital was due to the presence of armed men belonging to Daesh inside.” However the Iraqi Spring site attributed the attack
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Incident date
March 3, 2015
LOCATION
الجمهورية, Fallujah, Jamhouriya, Nineveh, IraqAircraft bombed a primary school and a hospital in the Jamhouriya neighbourhood of Fallujah, reportedly killing up to 12 civilians and injuring 9. Local media reported that children were among the dead, including 11-year old Suhaib Jassem Batawi. According to Arabi21, the attack was the work of the Iraq Air Force and had killed three
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Incident date
February 8, 2015
LOCATION
الموصل, 100km South of Mosul on ‘Road 1’, Nineveh, IraqAn alleged coalition airstrike struck a vehicle on the road between Mosul and Baghdad, which was carrying Jordanian mosque janitor Ahmed Abdul Aqi [sometimes Baqi], his wife and daughter. All three died in the incident. The driver of the car Ahmed al Azzawi (pictured below) also died according to his family. In a detailed report
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Incident date
February 6, 2015
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الرقة, Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, SyriaA Jordanian airstrike against an “ISIL weapons compound” – in coordination with the US military – allegedly killed US aid worker and hostage Kayla Mueller, along with up to 30 militants from Islamic State. The US later said that “with the information that we have there’s no evidence of civilians in the target area prior
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January 29, 2015
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الطيانة, Eastern Al Buwaida or Kobane, Deir Ezzor, SyriaA non-combatant civilian male, Abd Al Rahman Ahmad Bkar, from the town of Al Kussair near Homs was reported killed in an airstrike. While Syrian Martyrs attributed the strike to the Coalition, VDC blamed the Assad regime. Other reports were unclear. The location of the man’s death was also confused, given variously as Kobane in
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January 21, 2015
LOCATION
الكسك, Kisik Junction, Nineveh, IraqA Canadian airstrike at Kisik Junction was alleged to have killed between 6 and 27 civilians, according to an internal CENTCOM report. The source was an English-speaking peshmerga fighter, who had passed on his concerns to Coalition Special Forces based in Iraq. The Canadian attack had targeted “an ISIL sniper/ HMG [havy machine gun] position
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January 18, 2015
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الطيانة, Tayyani, Deir Ezzor, SyriaAn adult civilian male, was reported by a number of sources as killed in a coalition airstrike on his neighbourhood.
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January 14, 2015
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الحسكة, Al Hasakah, Deir Ezzor, SyriaThe website Syrian Martyrs identifies one man it says was killed in a Coalition airstrike near Dayr Ezzawr. He was reported as a resident of Tayana, the village where he was killed. However Damascus Centre for Human Rights Studies – which named him – said that although he was from Tayana, he was killed in Al
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January 14, 2015
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حماة, Um al Nayr, Idlib, SyriaA female civilian, a civil engineer, was reported by Syrian Martyrs to have been killed in a Coalition airstrike. Confused reporting placed her death either at Umm Al Nayr near Hama, or at nearby Kaferzita. However, VDC – which named the victim – stated that a 25 year old instead died in an attack by
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Incident date
January 5, 2015
LOCATION
درنة: ميناء درنه, Derna Port, Darnah, LibyaGNC planes allegedly bombed a Greek oil tanker killing a Greek engine cadet and a Romanian seaman on board, according to local media. Two Filipinos aboard were injured according to The Telegraph. Shorouk News reported a third person had been wounded. The Telegraph provided significant details on the event, reporting that a 29-year old Greek engine
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Incident date
January 2, 2015
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الفرحانية, Villages of Al-Farhaniya and al-Subaihat, Salah Al Din, IraqAn airstrike by an unspecified belligerent reportedly killed 12 civilians including women and children, and wounded an additional 23. The deaths occurred during an Iraqi government offensive against Islamic State.
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Incident date
November 22, 2014
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يت, Hit, hospital and Zohour, Al Anbar, IraqMultiple airstrikes reportedly targeted Hit, allegedly leading to significant civilian casualties. News agency Herak reported one eyewitness as saying that five airstrikes had struck the city: “The first targeted outside a hospital building, and the other targeted a house near the mosque. A further air strike targeted a house in the Qadisiyah district, leading to
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Incident date
November 11, 2014
LOCATION
الرقة, Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, SyriaAccording to some sources, a civilian man was killed alongside two militants in an alleged coalition airstrike on Islamic State’s headquarters town of Ar Raqqah. The slain civilian was identified as a resident of Ma’ar Shoureen in Idlib. Two ‘Daesh militants’ were reportedly killed with him, one named as Mohammad Said Al Kaddour Nasser. In contrast,
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Incident date
November 6, 2014
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موقة, Muqah, Idlib, SyriaThe 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
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Incident date
November 5, 2014
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القائم, Al Qa'im, Al Anbar, IraqWitnesses 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
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November 4, 2014
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القائم, Al Qa'im, Al Anbar, IraqAn 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
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October 28, 2014
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سلوك, Suluk, Raqqa, SyriaAn 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
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October 25, 2014
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حاج علي, Hajj Ali, Nineveh, IraqTwo 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
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October 15, 2014
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كۆبانی, Kobanî, Aleppo, SyriaA 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
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September 26, 2014
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الحسكة, Al-Hasakah, Al Hassakah, SyriaThe Syrian Martyrs website claimed that three named men were killed in a Coalition airstrike. On its summary page Syrian Martyrs listed the trio as civilians. However, their individual pages describe them as fighters. According to a video tribute, Akta’a was an opponent of the Assad regime who had also fought the Kurds in Syria’s
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August 24, 2014
LOCATION
القيارة, Qayyarah, Al Shuhadaa, Nineveh, IraqLocal news service Al Sumaria claimed that “11 civilians from one family” died after coalition airstrikes hit the village of al Qayyarah south of Mosul on the morning of August 24th. Other sources, placing the death count slightly lower at 8-9 killed, reported that the attack had been carried out by a helicopter, possibly a
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Incident date
June 1, 2014
LOCATION
Farigow, 3 km west of Jilib, Middle Juba, SomaliaBetween one and five civilians, including women and children, were killed as the Farigow leper colony near Jilib, Middle Jubba was struck by unknown warplanes, international media reported. A woman living near the settlement told the Kenyan group Journalists for Justice that the colony was struck by jets by “mid 2014”, killing one person and
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Incident date
August 11, 2013
LOCATION
الظهي, Al Dahir, Surt, LibyaWissam Salem reported on Twitter that four people were killed and 15 more injured in an airstrike near Sirte. Salem didn’t elaborate if the victims were civilians or combattants. However, other sources claimed that the casualties resulted either from a car bomb or mortars. Wady Dynar reported that the explosions heard in Al Dahir in