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Incident Code
CI035
Location
الموصل, Mosul, Centre, Nineveh, Iraq
Citing a police source in the city, NINA claimed that nine civilians were killed and seven injured in an international coalition airstrike: “The source said that ‘the international coalition targeted the homes of civilians which resulted in the killing and injuring of dozens of civilians’… He pointed out that ‘the bodies of the martyrs arrived…
Summary
Published
28 January 2015
Civilians reported killed
9
Civilians reported injured
7
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
26 January 2015
Incident Code
CI034
Location
الموصل, Mosul, South, Nineveh, Iraq
Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad reported two alleged Coalition airstrikes, killing five and injuring two civilians called Mohammed Mohammed Ahmed and Ebtehalf Mohammed Yosef. The first attack took place at 7.40 AM local time on the highway close to the town of Umm al-Dheban at that time. The second airstrike was at 8.40 AM local time…
Summary
Published
26 January 2015
Civilians reported killed
5
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
Incident Code
CI033
Location
الموصل, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq
The previously-secret CENTCOM file also noted reports by redacted “prominent anti-ISIL Twitter users” that “civilians are being killed in the bombardment.” With so few details to go on, CENTCOM concluded that there was “insufficient evidence to determine date and time of any specific allegation.”
Summary
Published
24 January 2015
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
23 January 2015
Incident Code
CI032
Location
الرمادي, Ramadi, Al Anbar, Iraq
An internal CENTCOM report cited a Tweet on January 23rd as claiming that 6 members of one family had been killed in a Coalition strike in Anbar province. The identity of the tweeter was redacted in a publicly-released version of the file, though they were described as “Pro-ISIL… reported coalition airstrikes killed 6 family members…
Summary
Published
23 January 2015
Civilians reported killed
6
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
22 January 2015
Incident Code
CI030
Location
خزيمة, Aski Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq
An internal CENTCOM report identified concerns of civilian fatalities raised by local Nineveh MP Abd al Rahman al-Luwayzi. According to the MP, “Arab families, fleeing the area of Aski Musil were targeted by coalition aircraft, killing or wounding ‘scores of civilians.” The town is situated on the banks of the Tigris River to the north…
Summary
Published
22 January 2015
Civilians reported killed
2
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
22 January 2015
Incident Code
CI031
Location
الموصل, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq
An internal CENTCOM report cited a Tweet by an Iraqi “self proclaimed freelance journalist” (identified as Mr Zyad al-Senjary) who had posted a photograph of “a partially-destroyed house and claimed 2 children were killed and several Iraqis injured in a UAV [drone] strike.” An initial CENTCOM inquiry identified 32 total Coalition engagements in Nineveh for…
Summary
Published
22 January 2015
Civilians reported killed
2
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
11 January 2015
Incident Code
CI028
Location
القيارة, Qayyarah, Nineveh, Iraq
A single source claimed that a coalition strike on the town of Qayyarah near Mosul killed and injured “dozens.”
Summary
Published
11 January 2015
Civilians reported killed
24
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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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
26 December 2014
Incident Code
CI025
Location
الموصل, Mosul, Al Wehda, Nineveh, Iraq
Local residents reported that an “international airstrike” involving three missiles had struck houses killing and injuring civilians. NINA claimed that five women from one family were among the dead.
Summary
Published
26 December 2014
Civilians reported killed
7
Civilians reported injured
4
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
25 December 2014
Incident Code
CI024
Location
الفلوجة, Fallujah, Al Anbar, Iraq
In an event previously not tracked by Airwars, two civilians were reported as having been possibly killed by a Dutch airstrike on December 26th, after motorbikes strayed into the kill zone during an attack on Fallujah. According to an internal CENTCOM document, it was self-reported the following day that “while conducting dynamic coalition airstrikes on…
Summary
Published
25 December 2014
Civilians reported killed
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
21 December 2014
Incident Code
CI023
Location
الفلوجة, Fallujah, Al Anbar, Iraq
A woman and child may have been injured in a major Australian airstrike at Fallujah on December 21st 2014, according to an internal CENTCOM assessment. The pre-planned attack was focused on a’suspected weapons factory’ in the city. However, 10 minutes after the last bomb had been dropped by an Australian aircraft, “a probable female and…
Summary
Published
21 December 2014
Civilians reported killed
0–13
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
Incident Code
CI022
Location
الموصل, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq
In an event previously unreported by Airwars, an internal Battle Damage Assessment (BDA) reported “4 unknown persons potentially injured while moving into the engagement area,” during a Coalition airstrike on Objective Nebula, a targeted vehicle. France later confirmed that it had carried out a targeted strike in Mosul on that date, though it is not…
Summary
Published
16 December 2014
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
Incident Code
CI021
Location
الرمادي, Ramadi, Al Anbar, Iraq
In an event previously unreported by Airwars, Coalition reported an unspecified open source as publishing a picture of a dead child “without any identification of original location”. According to provisional analysis “There was one airstrike in Ramadi on 13 December (strike #1266) which was unlikely to have caused the death.” No further action was recorded…
Summary
Published
13 December 2014
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
Incident Code
CI020
Location
الفلوجة, Fallujah, Al Anbar, Iraq
Up to 9 civilians were reported killed and 32 injured in what NINA described as a “coalition airstrike” on people queuing for fuel in the city. On the following day Al Jazeera, Rudaw, NINA and Mobtaba all described attacks on the districts of “Al Jolan north of the city, Nizal in the centre of the…
Summary
Published
9 December 2014
Civilians reported killed
8–9
Civilians reported injured
32
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
Incident Code
CI018
Location
الموصل, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq
The FBI informed CENTCOM internally on November 21st 2014 that a source had alleged the deaths of “41 Yezidi captive females killed in a strike on a named OBJ IVO [objective in the vicinity of] Mosul.” The closest strike, number 999, was identified by CENTCOM as having taken place some 3.2km from the site of…
Summary
Published
19 November 2014
Civilians reported killed
41
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
17 November 2014
Incident Code
CI017
Location
القيارة, Qayyarah, Nineveh, Iraq
Multiple civilians were reported killed as a result of air raids launched by the coalition south of Mosul. The National Iraqi News Agency cited forensic sources as saying that 16 people, including six women and children, were killed. Other media reported that up to “22 Daesh militants” were also killed in coalition airstrikes in the…
Summary
Published
17 November 2014
Civilians reported killed
16
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
12 November 2014
Incident Code
CI016
Location
الموصل, Mosul, Jawsag, Nineveh, Iraq
Iraqi news agency NINA and others reported that seven civilians – including children – died in “international coalition raids” in the vicinity of both Denden and Jawsaq, south of Mosul city. An additional strike by the Iraq military at nearby Mithaq in eastern Mosul reportedly killed an additional 15 civilians.
Summary
Published
12 November 2014
Civilians reported killed
7
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
26 October 2014
Incident Code
CI013
Location
عوينات, Uwaynat, Nineveh, Iraq
There were claims that coalition air raids resulted in the deaths of between 10 and 20 civilians in a village 110km northwest of Mosul called Aouinat. Al Rafidain reported: "Press sources in Mosul confirmed that the bombing, which targeted the village of Aouinat killed ten civilians and destroyed at least two houses. The forensic medicine…
Summary
Published
26 October 2014
Civilians reported killed
10–20
Civilians reported injured
10
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
17 October 2014
Incident Code
CI010
Location
عوينات, Awinat, Nineveh, Iraq
According to news agency NINA, a “US air strike on the village of Aouinat northwest of Mosul killed five civilians, according to a source in forensic medicine in Mosul.” The Al Rafidain website (in a report dated ten days after the event) placed the death toll higher at between 10 and 20, saying two houses…
Summary
Published
17 October 2014
Civilians reported killed
5–20
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
17 October 2014
Incident Code
CI011
Location
البوعجيل, Bojeel, Salah Al Din, Iraq
Reports claimed that Coalition strike hit a mosque during Friday prayers in the town of Al Bojeel, to the east of Tikrit.
Summary
Published
17 October 2014
Civilians reported killed
10
Civilians reported injured
15
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
8 October 2014
Incident Code
CI008
Location
الموصل, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq
According to an unidentified international news agency cited in Foreign Policy, there were unconfirmed reports of possible civilian casualties at Mosul after coalition aircraft heavily targeted the city – though the agency was unable to verify further given the security situation: “We were never able to confirm it.” Perhaps linked to the above, CENTCOM noted…
Summary
Published
8 October 2014
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
8 October 2014
Incident Code
CI009
Location
الرمادي, Ramadi, Al Anbar, Iraq
An internal CENTCOM review identified potential civilian casualties from a Coalition airstrike on an ‘ISIL checkpoint’ west of Ramadi, which appears to have been carried out by Australian aircraft. According to the internal CENTCOM document, “On reviewing WSV [weapon system video] from AUS F18F” – an Australian Super Hornet – “it was apparent that a…
Summary
Published
8 October 2014
Civilians reported killed
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
5 October 2014
Incident Code
CI007
Location
يت, Hit, Al Anbar, Iraq
It was reported by several sources in Hit that Coalition or Iraqi jets struck a number of civilian houses, killing up to 22 persons. Eight children and 3 women were reportedly among the dead. One of those quoted on the event was Nabil Souri, an Iraqi citizen working at Hit hospital, who learned that many…
Summary
Published
5 October 2014
Civilians reported killed
18–24
Civilians reported injured
43
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
26 September 2014
Incident Code
CI006
Location
الموصل, Mosul, Tahrir, Nineveh, Iraq
“Seven civilians including two children” were reported by two local news agencies as being killed in a coalition airstrike in the eastern part of Mosul, in al-Tahrir Street. Alternatively, the Baghdad Centre for Human Rights claimed that two separate coalition strikes – in the Fadhiliyah and Ba’shika neighbourhoods of Mosul – killed four civilians each.…
Summary
Published
26 September 2014
Civilians reported killed
7–8
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
14 September 2014
Incident Code
CI005
Location
سنجار, Sinjar, Nineveh, Iraq
An internal CENTCOM review identified potential civilian casualties from a Coalition airstrike in “northern Iraq.” The only location for this date which matches is Sinjar. The incident was not previously tracked by Airwars. According to a declassified CENTCOM document, “A review of FMV from a RECOIL feed revealed unknown individuals moving into a target area…
Summary
Published
14 September 2014
Civilians reported killed
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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