Incident date
November 13, 2018
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الكشمة و الشعفة, Al Kashma and Al Sha'afa, Deir Ezzor, SyriaAlleged Coalition airstrikes targeted Al Kashma and Al Sha’afa in what was described as “a new massacre of dozens of civilians” according to local media. Between 20 and 50 civilians were reported to have died as a result of “25 raids” on both locations on November 13th. According to Orient News, both Al Kashma and
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November 11, 2018
LOCATION
هجين, Hajin, Deir Ezzor, SyriaBetween five and 12 civilians including women and children died in an alleged Coalition airstrike on Hajin, according to local media. Baladi News reported on five civilian deaths, while most other sources reported on the deaths of seven civilians. There were various reports on the gender and age of the victims. Some sources reported that
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Incident date
November 11, 2018
LOCATION
الكشمة, Al Kashma, Deir Ezzor, SyriaBetween 10 and as many as 60 civilians died in an alleged Coalition airstrike on Al Kashma, according to local media. Airstrikes were carried out in Al Shaafa and Al Kashma around the same time, and most sources reported on a combined number of civilian casualties as a result of airstrikes in both places. The airstrikes
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Incident date
November 11, 2018
LOCATION
الشعفة, Al Sha'afa, Deir Ezzor, SyriaBetween 20 and as many as 60 non-combatants died in an alleged Coalition airstrike on Al Sha’afa, according to local media. A number of sources including Baladi News and the Syrian Unified Observatory, reported that the airstrikes hit both the towns of Al Sha’afa and Al Kashma, killing mostly civilians including women and children. According
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Incident date
November 10, 2018
LOCATION
السوسة, Al Sousse, Deir Ezzor, SyriaThe Step News Agency reported that the Coalition “bombed the eastern suburb of Deir Ezzor with white phosphorus last night [Nov 10th]. It also renewed shelling of Hajin city and the town of al-Sousse”. It added that deaths were reported, but didn’t give numbers. Al Khabar also claimed that white phosphorous was used, asserting that “the
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Incident date
November 10, 2018
LOCATION
هجين, Hajin, Deir Ezzor, SyriaBetween four and 26 civilians died in alleged US-led Coalition airstrikes on the town of Hajin on November 10th, 2018, according to local sources. An unknown number of others was injured. Sources claimed that many of the victims were women and children. Sana News put the death toll at four, reporting that “the US-led coalition carried
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Incident date
November 9, 2018
LOCATION
الشعفة, Al Sha'afa, Deir Ezzor, SyriaUp to 20 civilian died in an alleged Coalition airstrike on Al Shaafa, according to sources on the ground. Deir Ezzor 24 reported that “many” civilians had died in the strike – and blamed the Coalition. Al Shaafa Official put the death toll at 20, again pointing to the US-led alliance – and adding that
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Incident date
November 9, 2018
LOCATION
هجين, Hajin, Deir Ezzor, SyriaLocal media reported that between 11 and 26 civilians died in an alleged Coalition airstrike on Hajin, in what some sources described as “a massacre”. In June 2019 the Coalition accepted responsibility for just one death in this event, with their monthly civilian casualty report noting: “Near Hajin, Syria, via media report. Coalition aircraft conducted
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Incident date
November 8, 2018
LOCATION
الشعفة, Al Sha'afa, Deir Ezzor, SyriaAn alleged Coalition airstrike on an “ISIS headquarters” was reported to have resulted in civilian casualties. Smart News Agency reported that one of four high precision missiles fell on an ISIS HQ and that 12 members of the terror group died. Smart did not report any civilian casualties. However, according to Deir Ezzor 24, “many
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Incident date
November 8, 2018
LOCATION
هجين, Hajin, Deir Ezzor, SyriaAn alleged Coalition airstrike targeted the town of Hajin, which according to local reports resulted in the deaths of between 12 and as many as 40 civilian casualties. Halab Today TV reported that “Coalition aircraft carried out more than 50 air raids on the city of the Hajin, east of the Euphrates, on Thursday evening [Nov
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Incident date
November 6, 2018
LOCATION
دير العدس, Deir Al A'adas, Daraa, SyriaFour children were reportedly injured in the explosion of a cluster bomb from an earlier alleged Russian or Syrian regime air raid on the town of Deir Al A’adas, November 6th, 2018, according to local sources. It is unclear when the raid took place. @Step_Agency reported: “Four civilians, including children, were injured as a result
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Incident date
November 4, 2018
LOCATION
السوسة, Al Soussa, Deir Ezzor, SyriaA single source, Free Deir Ezzor Media, reported that “a civilian woman and her child were killed by artillery shelling targeting the town of Al-Soussa in Deir al-Zour countryside.” No further details are currently available. In its December 2020 monthly civilian casualty report, the Coalition assessed this event as ‘non credible’, asserting that “The allegation
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Incident date
November 3, 2018
LOCATION
الشعفة و, Al Sha'afa, Deir Ezzor, SyriaMultiple local sources named three children as killed and “many” more civilians wounded in an alleged Coalition air or artillery strike on Al Shaafa on November 3, 2018. Some sources reported that the airstrike targeted a house in a residential neighbourhood. Euphrates Post for example reported: “The killing of three children, the children of Imad
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Incident date
November 3, 2018
LOCATION
مسجد خالد بن الوليدهجين, Hajin: House near Khalid bin Walid mosque, Deir Ezzor, SyriaLocal media reported that between 14 and 21 civilians – over half of them children, according to some sources – were killed in an alleged Coalition airstrike on a house near the Khalid bin Walid mosque in Hajin. Several sources mentioned al Soussa, al Kushma and al Sha’afa as other locations targeted by airstrikes that
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Incident date
November 3, 2018
LOCATION
شبام, Shibam, Hadramaut, YemenAt least one drone strike, which one local-language Twitter source @A_GHALEB63, alleged to be American, reportedly targeted suspected AQAP militants in the Shibam district of Hadramout governorate, from November 3rd to November 4th 2018. No information was available on alleged casualties of the reported strikes. Local residents told Aden News that they heard an explosion
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Incident date
November 3, 2018
LOCATION
SomaliaResponding to allegations that it had conducted a November 18th airstrike on a radio station in Jilib, AFRICOM informed local media via Twitter that “it has not conducted an airstrike in Somalia since Nov. 3.” There were no publicly reported strikes on this date, and Airwars has reached out to AFRICOM for clarification. U.S. Africa
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Incident date
November 3, 2018
LOCATION
دهوك, Duhok, IraqSeveral sources reported that an alleged Turkish airstrike killed a civilian near the province of Duhok. A “security source” quoted in reports from Almaalhomah, Iraqhbar and Alahdnews, mentions that “the bombing killed a farmer near the place of the fall of a missile.” He reportedly added that “the body was transferred to the Department of
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Incident date
November 2, 2018
LOCATION
شبام, Shibam, Hadramaut, YemenA single source, Aden News, suggested that US airstrikes had targeted AQAP sites in the Shibam district of Hadramout governorate, on the evening of November 2nd 2018. Aden News reported the following: “Urgent: Explosion on the express line of the Shibam Hadramout Directorate and citizens talk about a drone strike. Local residents in the Shibam district
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Incident date
November 1, 2018
LOCATION
تل أبيض , Tel Fender, Raqqa, SyriaLocal sources reported that a girl was killed due to Turkish shelling on Tal Fander, one of the Tal Abyad villages in northern Raqqa. Although most sources reported that the girl was killed in an airstrike, Smart claimed that the Turkish army targeted the village with heavy machine guns and sniper fire, which allegedly killed the girl after
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Incident date
October 31, 2018
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هجين, Hajin, Deir Ezzor, SyriaIn an incident previously not tracked by Airwars, the Coalition later confirmed the injuries of four civilians in an airstrike near Hajin. There are indications that this was either a French or Dutch action. In its April 2019 civilian casualty report, the Coalition noted: “Coalition aircraft conducted one strike on a Daesh improvised explosive device
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Incident date
October 30, 2018
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الشعفة, Al Sha'afa, Deir Ezzor, SyriaLocal sources reported on “two new massacres” resulting from alleged Coalition airstrikes targeting the towns of Al Sha’afa and al-Kushma in Deir al-Zour. Media reported said that four civilians died in this particular event in Sha’fa, when a civilian’s home was allegedly struck by the Coalition. According to The Al Sha’afa Facebook page on October
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Incident date
October 30, 2018
LOCATION
و الكشمة, Al Kashma, Deir Ezzor, SyriaLocal sources reported on “two new massacres” resulting from alleged Coalition airstrikes targeting the towns of Al Sha’fa and al-Kashma in Deir al-Zour. Several sources including Free Deir Ezzor Radio and Baladi News reported the killing of a total of 17 non-combatant civilians including four women and three children. Baladi added that the victims were
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Incident date
October 30, 2018
LOCATION
متجرعطية العبيدي الشيخ القديمات, Shop of Attia Al Obaidi Al Sheik Al Qadimat, Al Shaafa, Deir Ezzor, SyriaThree civilians were reportedly killed in alleged US-led Coalition airstrikes on Al Shaafa, Deir Ezzor, on October 30th, 2018, according to local sources. Al Shaafa town’s Facebook page wrote on October 30th that an alleged Coalition airstrike on “the shops of Atiyya Al Obeidi Al Sheikh Al Qadimat on the public street at the division
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Incident date
October 28, 2018
LOCATION
الشعفة, Al Sha'afa, Deir Ezzor, SyriaAt least one and as many as 20 civilians including an unspecified number of women and children died in an alleged Coalition airstrike on the town of Al Shaafa, which was under the control of ISIS, according to local media. Several local sources including Euphrates Post reported that “a number of civilian died” in the
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Incident date
October 27, 2018
LOCATION
هجين, Hajin, Deir Ezzor, SyriaBetween 5 and 20 civilians were reportedly injured or killed in Hajin as a result of alleged Coalition air and /or artillery strikes between October 27th and 28th, according to local media. On October 28th, Syria Unified Observatory reported “the martyrdom of about 20 people of the city of # Hajin and village # Al-Shaafa
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Incident date
October 27, 2018
LOCATION
البوبدران, Al Boubadran, Deir Ezzor, SyriaIn what local media referred to as a “massacre”, five civilians including a woman and two or three children were reported killed in an alleged Coalition airstrike on the house of Rajab al-Hassan in the area of Al Boubadran, a village near al Soussa said to be under ISIS control. The victims were named by multiple
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Incident date
October 27, 2018
LOCATION
الظهرة ,الشعفة, Dhahra, Al Shafa, Deir Ezzor, SyriaOn October 30th a single source, Al-Sha’fa Facebook page, reported an alleged Coalition airstrike “on a house in the outskirts of Dhahra.” The source said: “We don’t know who the house belonged to, but the whole family was killed”. The source was unable to specify the precise date of the reported civilian harm, noting that
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Incident date
October 25, 2018
LOCATION
حرمك, Vicinity of Kunyo Barrow, Lower Juba, SomaliaAFRICOM publicly reported that it had “conducted conducted an airstrike targeting al-Shabaab militants in the vicinity of Kunyo Barrow, Somalia, on October 25, 2018”. It added: “We also currently assess this airstrike did not injure or kill any civilians.” However, AFRICOM claimed that the airstrike “killed two (2) militants and destroyed one (1) vehicle.” Voice
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Incident date
October 24, 2018
LOCATION
السوسة , Al Soussa, Deir Ezzor, SyriaAccording to the source Marsad al Hassaka, “more than 20 civilians were killed in an air strike by international coalition aircraft on a house in the town of al-Soussa in the eastern suburb of Deir al-Zour. There were dozens of air strikes targeting civilian houses and large-scale destruction in the town amid attempts by the SDF
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Incident date
October 24, 2018
LOCATION
مسجد الزوية, Hajin: Al Zawiya mosque, Deir Ezzor, SyriaA Coalition airstrike hit the Al-Zawiya Mosque in Hajin – the fourth reported airstrike on a mosque carried out by the Coalition in the governorate of Deir Ezzor in less than a week. Local sources claimed that at least 7 and up to 16 civilians died in this attack. Free Deir Ezzor said that there