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Incident Date
6 February 2015
Incident Code
CS052
Location
الرقة, Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria
A 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…
Summary
Published
6 February 2015
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
29 January 2015
Incident Code
CS048
Location
الطيانة, Eastern Al Buwaida or Kobane, Deir Ezzor, Syria
A 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…
Summary
Published
29 January 2015
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
1
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
21 January 2015
Incident Code
CI029
Location
الكسك, Kisik Junction, Nineveh, Iraq
A 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…
Summary
Published
21 January 2015
Civilians reported killed
6–27
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
18 January 2015
Incident Code
CS045
Location
الطيانة, Tayyani, Deir Ezzor, Syria
An adult civilian male, was reported by a number of sources as killed in a coalition airstrike on his neighbourhood.
Summary
Published
18 January 2015
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
14 January 2015
Incident Code
CS043
Location
حماة, Um al Nayr, Idlib, Syria
A 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…
Summary
Published
14 January 2015
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
14 January 2015
Incident Code
CS044
Location
الحسكة, Al Hasakah, Deir Ezzor, Syria
The 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…
Summary
Published
15 January 2015
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
5 January 2015
Incident Code
LC013
Location
درنة: ميناء درنه, Derna Port, Darnah, Libya
GNC 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…
Summary
Published
5 January 2015
Civilians reported killed
2
Civilians reported injured
2–3
Military Actor
Libyan National Army
,
General National Congress (GNC)
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Incident Date
2 January 2015
Incident Code
CI027
Location
الفرحانية, Villages of Al-Farhaniya and al-Subaihat, Salah Al Din, Iraq
An 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.
Summary
Published
2 January 2015
Civilians reported killed
12
Civilians reported injured
23
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
22 November 2014
Incident Code
CI019
Location
يت, Hit, hospital and Zohour, Al Anbar, Iraq
Multiple 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…
Summary
Published
22 November 2014
Civilians reported killed
5–8
Civilians reported injured
9–35
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
11 November 2014
Incident Code
CS026
Location
الرقة, Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria
According 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,…
Summary
Published
11 November 2014
Civilians reported killed
1–3
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
6 November 2014
Incident Code
CS020
Location
موقة, Muqah, Idlib, Syria
The 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…
Summary
Published
6 November 2014
Civilians reported killed
3–4
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
5 November 2014
Incident Code
CI015
Location
القائم, Al Qa'im, Al Anbar, Iraq
Witnesses 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…
Summary
Published
5 November 2014
Civilians reported killed
4
Civilians reported injured
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
4 November 2014
Incident Code
CI014
Location
القائم, Al Qa'im, Al Anbar, Iraq
An 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…
Summary
Published
4 November 2014
Civilians reported killed
3–15
Civilians reported injured
14–35
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
28 October 2014
Incident Code
CS017
Location
سلوك, Suluk, Raqqa, Syria
An 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…
Summary
Published
28 October 2014
Civilians reported killed
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
25 October 2014
Incident Code
CI012
Location
حاج علي, Hajj Ali, Nineveh, Iraq
Two 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…
Summary
Published
25 October 2014
Civilians reported killed
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
15 October 2014
Incident Code
CS012
Location
كۆبانی, Kobanî, Aleppo, Syria
A 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…
Summary
Published
15 October 2014
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
26 September 2014
Incident Code
CS003
Location
الحسكة, Al-Hasakah, Al Hassakah, Syria
The 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…
Summary
Published
26 September 2014
Civilians reported killed
2–4
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
24 August 2014
Incident Code
CI002
Location
القيارة, Qayyarah, Al Shuhadaa, Nineveh, Iraq
Local 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…
Summary
Published
24 August 2014
Civilians reported killed
8–11
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
1–30 June, 2014
Incident Code
USSOM031-C
Location
Farigow, 3 km west of Jilib, Middle Juba, Somalia
Between 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…
Summary
Published
20 May 2014
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
1–5
Civilians reported injured
3
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
11 August 2013
Incident Code
LC001
Location
الظهي, Al Dahir, Surt, Libya
Wissam 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…
Summary
Published
11 August 2013
Civilians reported killed
4
Civilians reported injured
15
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
8 August 2012
Incident Code
USYEM119-C
Location
القطن, Al Qotn, Hadramaut, Yemen
On the 8th of August 2012, multiple drone or air strikes, allegedly by either Yemeni or US authorities, killed one person just before dawn in Al Qotn in the Hahdramaut Province. It remains unclear whether the person killed was a civilian or not. @YRMC_S and @AdenOnline reported one person killed while @BaFana3 reported that a…
Summary
Published
8 August 2012
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported killed
0–1
Military actors reported killed
0–1
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
20 June 2012
Incident Code
USYEM108-C
Location
المحفد, Mahfed district, Abyan, Yemen
On the 20th of June 2012, an airstrike allegedly by US or Yemeni forces in northern Abyan killed Hussein Saleh (35), a worker with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), multiple sources, such as Reuters, reported. Al-Sahwa Net also reported that seven militants were killed and 10 others were wounded in the same…
Summary
Published
20 June 2012
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported killed
1
Military actors reported killed
7
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
17 June 2012
Incident Code
USYEM106-B
Location
عزان, Azzan, Shabwa, Yemen
On June 17th 2012, an alleged airstrike or shelling by the US military or Yemen Air Force caused the death of up to nine civilians in the town of Azzan, Shabwa province. There are currently no known reports of injured. The US news channel Fox News claimed that six Al Qaeda militants were killed in…
Summary
Published
17 July 2012
Strike Type
Airstrike
,
Artillery
Civilians reported killed
0–9
Military actors reported killed
6–9
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
15 June 2012
Incident Code
USYEM105-C
Location
شقرة, Shaqra, Abyan, Yemen
On June 15th 2012, up to seven civilians, including a woman and up to six children, were killed by an alleged US military, CIA drone, or Yemen Air Force strike in the village of Shaqra, Ayban province. Four civilians were injured and no militants were killed according to witnesses. The village of Shaqra, near Jaar,…
Summary
Published
15 June 2012
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Infrastructure
Residential
(
House
)
Civilians reported killed
5–7
Civilians reported injured
4
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
1 June 2012
Incident Code
USYEM096-C
Location
شبوة, Shabwa, Shabwa, Yemen
A Yemeni journalist was reportedly injured in an alleged drone strike while fleeing the site of attacks on an Al Qaeda vehicle on the 1st of June 2012 in Shabwa. Only one source, @narrabyee, reported this incident and further information remains unknown. The drone strike could have been a US or Yemeni strike as similar…
Summary
Published
1 June 2012
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported injured
1
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
17 May 2012
Incident Code
USYEM086-C
Location
شقرة, Shaqra, Abyan, Yemen
On May 17th 2012, at an Al Qaeda checkpoint in the town of Shaqra in the Abyan Province, a suspected US drone-fired missile or Yemeni air strike hit two cars killing between three and eight alleged Al Qaeda militants and up to two civilians, in addition to wounding others, according to local officials and residents,…
Summary
Published
17 May 2012
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Infrastructure
Vehicle
(
Car
)
Civilians reported killed
0–2
Civilians reported injured
0–2
Military actors reported killed
3–8
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
15 May 2012
Incident Code
USYEM082-C
Location
جعار, Ja'ar, Abyan, Yemen
Between 13 and 26 civilians - 14 of whom were named - died and 21 other civilians were injured in two or more alleged US, Yemeni, or Saudi airstrikes on the same location in Jaar on May 15, 2012, according to sources. An additional three to 25 AQAP members were also killed in the strikes.…
Summary
Published
15 May 2012
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Residential
Civilians reported killed
13–26
Civilians reported injured
21
Military actors reported killed
3–25
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
18 April 2012
Incident Code
USYEM062-C
Location
لودر, Lawdar, Abyan, Yemen
One civilian was killed, and two injured, in an alleged US or Yemeni strike on Loder, April 18th, that also purportedly killed six militants, sources said. A tweet from @fhgfdgdd and @BRQNews1 reported that the son of Tariq al-Fadli was among the dead militants, which was also reported by Yafanews. Reuters reported that "Loder residents…
Summary
Published
18 April 2012
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Vehicle
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
2
Military actors reported killed
6
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
17 April 2012
Incident Code
USSOM023-C
Location
Gumah, Bari, Somalia
"Unknown military jets fired several missiles" at a suspected Somali pirate base in the northern autonomous region of Puntland a coastguard official told AFP. The target was the village of Gumah, described as being between Hafun and Bargal towns and some 220 kilometres (140 miles) east of Bossaso, the main port of Somalia's breakaway Puntland…
Summary
Published
17 April 2012
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported injured
2
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
EU Military
,
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
9 September 2011
Incident Code
USYEM036-C
Location
جعار, Jaar, Abyan, Yemen
A single source, @AdenHurra, reported that "a number of civilians were killed and wounded after warplanes bombed the city of Jaar", adding that the bombing occurred in the "outskirts of the city". It is unknown whether Yemeni forces, US forces, or another belligerent, were to be blamed for this incident. There is no other information available…
Summary
Published
9 September 2011
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
2
Civilians reported injured
2
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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