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Incident Date
21 December 2015
Incident Code
RS0295
Location
رامي, Al Rami, Idlib, Syria
Four or more civilians were reported killed and more than 10 injured in Russian airstrikes on the villages of Al Zawiya mountain. Footage appears to show a Su 24 in apparent Russian Air Force colours dropping two bombs in the vicinity of the town. According to the Shaam News Network five or more Russian airstrikes with rockets…
Summary
Published
21 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
4–6
Civilians reported injured
8–10
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
20 December 2015
Incident Code
RS0291
Location
إدلب, Idlib, Idlib, Syria
Between 43 and 73 civilians were reported killed and 70-170 injured in alleged Russian airstrikes on Idlib, according to multiple sources. Al Jazeera posted a video from the main market on Al Jala’a street in which the reporter said 47 non-combatants were killed and 70 injured, in strikes by Russian warplanes. The correspondent said the street contained two schools,…
Summary
Published
20 December 2015
Infrastructure
Education
Civilians reported killed
43–73
Civilians reported injured
70–170
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
20 December 2015
Incident Code
RS0293
Location
الباب, Al Bab, Aleppo, Syria
Between five and 11 civilians were reported killed including two children in three airstrikes on Al Bab, according to multiple reports. Shahba Press claimed that “Russian warplanes launched three air strikes on al Bab City, which resulted in the deaths of five people, including two children, in addition to a large number of injuries and…
Summary
Published
20 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
5–11
Civilians reported injured
12–20
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
20 December 2015
Incident Code
RS0292
Location
دوما, Douma, Damascus, Syria
At least six civilians including one woman and two children from the same family were killed in an alleged Russian airstrike on the food stores of A’dala, a relief organisation in Al Ghouta, according to reports. Significant food stores were targeted and destroyed and around 70 sheep slain.
Summary
Published
20 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
6–7
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
20 December 2015
Incident Code
RS0294
Location
كفر ناها, Kafr Naha, Aleppo, Syria
Up to fifteen civilians were reported killed and dozens injured in alleged Russian airstrikes on Kafr Naha, according to the Shaam News Network. It said the raids were carried out by tens of Russian warplanes, adding that about 40 raids additional raids also targeted nearby towns and villages relating to battles between rebels and the…
Summary
Published
20 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
13–15
Civilians reported injured
24–25
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
19 December 2015
Incident Code
RS0290
Location
العثمانية, Al Othmaniya, Aleppo, Syria
A 50-year old woman named as Mrs. Salwa Al Shahadi, was killed in an alleged Russian airstrike on Al Othmaniya. The VDC reported that Mrs al Shadadi originally came from Zimar village, and died “due to Russian air forces shelling on Othmaniye town.“ The local Jisr TV station blamed her death and several injuries on “airstrikes…
Summary
Published
19 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
18 December 2015
Incident Code
RS0288
Location
حريتان, Hraytan, Aleppo, Syria
Four to five civilians were killed in alleged Russian airstrikes on Hraytan, north of Aleppo, according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. No further details are available at the present time.
Summary
Published
18 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
4–5
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
17 December 2015
Incident Code
RS0285
Location
أعزاز, A`zaz, Aleppo, Syria
Eight to nine civilians including two children and five women were killed in an alleged Russian airstrike on Azaz, according to multiple sources. The White Helmets, Al Jazeera, the Shaam News Network and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that Russia carried out the raid, which killed nine non-combatants. SOHR said this included a child, a girl…
Summary
Published
17 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
8–9
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
17 December 2015
Incident Code
CI160
Location
الفلوجة, Fallujah, Al Anbar, Iraq
Amid heavy airstrikes on the city of Fallujah, at least four children were among up to eight people reported killed when a home was struck in an alleged Coalition attack. According to Al Fallujah News, those killed were a father, mother and their six children. News Fallujah Now, citing “medical sources at Fallujah General Hospital”…
Summary
Published
17 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
6–8
Civilians reported injured
9
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
16 December 2015
Incident Code
CI159
Location
شارع السكلات, Hit, Alscalt Street, Al Anbar, Iraq
It was reported by several sources that the Coalition struck Hit city, resulting in the injury of eight civilians including three children and two women. According to the local site Hit News, an airstrike struck a militant vehicle carrying weapons, ammunition and food, injuring civilians in the immediate vicinity. The Coalition has confirmed targeting an…
Summary
Published
16 December 2015
Civilians reported injured
8
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
16 December 2015
Incident Code
RS0283
Location
الناجية, Najieh, Idlib, Syria
One civilian male named as Shadi Samir Bakkour was reported killed in an alleged Russian airstrike on Najieh, with two or more others injured. The local civil defence team tweeted “One martyr, several injured from Russian airstrikes with vacuum bombs on Najiah village in Jisr el Shoughour countryside.”
Summary
Published
16 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
16 December 2015
Incident Code
CS157
Location
عيساوي, `Isawi, Raqqa, Syria
One person named as Ahmad Al A’bd was reported killed and his cousin Wa’el Al A’bd injured after unexploded ordnance detonated – allegedly the result of a Coalition airstrike on the village in June. In their January 2020 civilian casualty report, the US-led Coalition assessed reports that they were responsible for civilian harm in this…
Summary
Published
16 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
15 December 2015
Incident Code
RS0278
Location
منبج, Manbij, Aleppo, Syria
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…
Summary
Published
15 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
2
Civilians reported injured
9
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
15 December 2015
Incident Code
RS0277
Location
إدلب, Idlib, Idlib, Syria
One adult male civilian, named as Khaled Iyad al-Khaled, was killed in an alleged Russian airstrike on Idlib city, according to the Violations Documentation Centre and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. No further details are currently available.
Summary
Published
15 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
13 December 2015
Incident Code
RS0273
Location
الصاخور, Al Sakhour (Aleppo), Aleppo, Syria
Two adult male civilians were reported killed in an alleged Russian airstrike on Sakhour, according to the Violations Documentation Centre. Five additional victims may also have died, including a woman and girl. Halab TV also reported at least one death from an air raid, though did not identify a perpetrator: “Warplanes launched two air strikes…
Summary
Published
13 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
2–7
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
13 December 2015
Incident Code
CI157
Location
الموصل, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq
Three professors from the University of Mosul were among four civilians and a Daesh official reported killed in an alleged Coaliton airstrike. According to the National Iraqi News Agency, Salah Mohammed Afri, responsible for student affairs, “was killed along with two [or three] professors appointed by Daesh to the Faculty of Dentistry at the University…
Summary
Published
13 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
3–4
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
12 December 2015
Incident Code
RS0268
Location
الباب, Al-Bab, Aleppo, Syria
Three civilians were reported killed and 20 injured in alleged Russian or Assad regime airstrikes on Al Bab. Up to 10 ISIL militants were also reported killed. Media activist Nassim Al Shamali said Russian warplanes launched several raid with cluster bombs on Daesh-occupied Al Bab, targeting al Noveaute street, Dowar al Manshie and several other…
Summary
Published
12 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
3
Civilians reported injured
20
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
12 December 2015
Incident Code
CS156
Location
كبش, Kabsh, Raqqa, Syria
At least six civilians were killed and four injured in what was reported as a Coalition drone strike at Kabsh in northern Al Raqqah. The attack targeted what was described as “a small convoy of vehicles transporting passengers”. A minibus carrying the civilians was said to have been destroyed. The Syrian Press Centre was the…
Summary
Published
12 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
6
Civilians reported injured
4
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
12 December 2015
Incident Code
RS0263
Location
Kafr Zita, Hama, Syria
One civilian was reported killed in alleged Russian airstrikes on Kafr Zita, according to the Union of Hama Rebels and the VDC. The victim has been named as Zamzam Abdo Al Laban from Kafr Zita Reporting remains confused, with multiple alleged Russian airstrikes on Kafr Zita between December 9th and 12th which resulted in a…
Summary
Published
12 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
11 December 2015
Incident Code
RS0255
Location
كفر زيتة, Kafr Zita, Hama, Syria
One male child, Khaled Nihad al-Nuna , was reported killed in an alleged Russian airstrike on Kafr Zita, according to the Union of Hama Rebels and the Violations Documentation Centre. Reporting remains confused, with multiple alleged Russian airstrikes on Kafr Zita between December 9th and 12th which resulted in a likely total of six civilian deaths.…
Summary
Published
11 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
11 December 2015
Incident Code
RS0261
Location
زغير, Zughayr, Deir Ezzor, Syria
Between three and seven non-combatants were killed in an alleged Russian airstrike on Zughayr, according to the Shaam News Network and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the civilians died when an oil field was targeted by Russian warplanes. SNN put the death toll higher, at seven.
Summary
Published
11 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
3–7
Civilians reported injured
2–20
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
11 December 2015
Incident Code
RS0262
Location
الناجية, Najieh, Idlib, Syria
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Violations Documentation Centre alleged that Russian warplanes carried out dawn airstrikes on Najieh village. One adult male victim has been named by the VDC as Nabeil Shawa, who died “due to his wounds sustained by Russian air forces shelling of the town with cluster bombs.” The village…
Summary
Published
11 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
11 December 2015
Incident Code
RS0257
Location
الباغوز, Al Baghouz, Deir Ezzor, Syria
An alleged Russian air raid on the village of al Baghouz in eastern Deir Ezzor led to at least three deaths including a child. According to area blogger al Hussein al Hashimi “a raid on the village of al Baghouz targeting the home of Raheel al Majoul led to the death of Ibrahim al Majoul.…
Summary
Published
11 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
3–5
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
11 December 2015
Incident Code
RS0258
Location
هجين, Hajeen, Deir Ezzor, Syria
One child was reported killed and another civilian injured in an alleged Russian airstrike at Hajeen. No additional details are presently known.
Summary
Published
11 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
1
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
10 December 2015
Incident Code
CI155
Location
الرمادي, Ramadi, Road between Ramadi and Rutba, Al Anbar, Iraq
Eight civilians – including a senior veterinarian and his wife – were reported killed when three vehicles were hit in an alleged Coalition airstrike, as they travelled on the road between Ramadi and Rutba. Dr. Ahmed Hamid Al-Jumaily (pictured) – the director of a major veterinary hospital in Anbar – was killed along with his…
Summary
Published
10 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
7–8
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
10 December 2015
Incident Code
LQ020
Location
بنغازي, Leithi, Benghazi, Libya
Twitter sources reported airstrikes in the Benghazi neighbourhoods of Leithi, Al-Halis, Al-Nahr, Tika and Bouatni. According to @LibyasChannel, “the Air Force continued to target the sites of terrorists in Al-Leithi and Alnahr road and Hawari and the western axis in the vicinity of the region of Alhalis”. There were no known public reports of civilian harm…
Summary
Published
10 December 2015
Military Actor
Libyan National Army
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Incident Date
9 December 2015
Incident Code
RS0249
Location
تدمر, Palmyra, Homs, Syria
The Violations Documentation Centre named one unidentified adult male as having been killed in an alleged Russian airstrike on Palmyra. In addition, the Syrian Human Rights Campaign reported that a boy named as Yazan Jamil el Sha’eel “died of wounds sustained from Russian airstrikes on civilians’ homes.” According to another source there were heavy Russian air raids on…
Summary
Published
9 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
2
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
9 December 2015
Incident Code
RS0245
Location
كفر زيتة, Kafr Zita, Hama, Syria
One adult male civilian, Mohammad Ahmad al-Alayan, was reported killed in an alleged Russian airstrike on Kafr Zita, according to the Union of Hama Rebels and the Violations Documentation Centre. Reporting remains confused, with multiple alleged Russian airstrikes on Kafr Zita between December 9th and 12th which resulted in a likely total of six civilian deaths.…
Summary
Published
9 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
9 December 2015
Incident Code
RS0246
Location
كفر نايا, Kafr Naya, Aleppo, Syria
Three children and a civilian man were killed in an alleged Russian airstrike on Kafr Naya, Aleppo, according to the Violations Documentation Centre. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported that three civilians were killed by Russian warplanes but listed all the victims as children. The VDC named two victims and also included one Unidentified –…
Summary
Published
9 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
4
Civilians reported injured
5
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
7 December 2015
Incident Code
CS154
Location
الهول, Al Hawl, Al Hassakah, Syria
As many as 47 civilians were reported killed and 17 injured in an alleged US Apache helicopter and fast jet attack on the village of al Khan near al Hawl. Locals were involved in an altercation with Islamic State militants according to McClatchy, with Coalition aircraft attacking a convoy of reinforcements as they entered the…
Summary
Published
7 December 2015
Civilians reported killed
40–47
Civilians reported injured
17–30
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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