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Incident Date
12 January 2017
Incident Code
RS1823
Location
بنش, Binnish, Idlib, Syria
As many as four civilians were killed - including a child - and 28 more were wounded, following an alleged airstrike on Binnish, which struck a market, local media reported. Sources were conflicted as to who was to blame, some blaming the Syrian regime, and other blaming Russia. Due to the extent of damage in the…
Summary
Published
12 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
3–4
Civilians reported injured
2–28
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
12 January 2017
Incident Code
TS046
Location
التفريعة, Al Tafri’a village, Aleppo, Syria
A single source, Syria News Desk, reported that "four civilians were killed by Turkish raids in the village of al Tafri’a north of Baza’ah which is controlled by IS-east of Aleppo." No further details are currently available.
Summary
Published
12 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
4
Military Actor
Turkish Military
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Incident Date
11 January 2017
Incident Code
RS1819
Location
مسكنة, Maskanah, Aleppo, Aleppo, Syria
A young man was killed when alleged Russian shelling struck "militants" in a sugar factory and a farm in Maskanah, Aleppo, local media reported. All sources blamed Russian warplanes for the raids. There were no reports of wounded civilians. According to @fathi_1999, three raids struck the town. There are no other details at this time.
Summary
Published
11 January 2017
Infrastructure
Agriculture
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Factory
)
Civilians reported killed
0–1
Military actors reported killed
0–1
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
11 January 2017
Incident Codes
CS439 RS1820
Location
سراقب, Saraqib, Idlib, Syria
Between 10 and 25 fighters of the militant group Fatah al Sham were killed - as well as a civilian policeman - and as many as six other people were injured, following an alleged airstrike in Saraqib. It is not clear whether or not the injured were civilians or members of Fatah al Sham. Sources are conflicted as…
Summary
Published
11 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
0–6
Military Actor
Russian Military
,
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
11 January 2017
Incident Code
RS1822
Location
بابيص, Babis, Aleppo, Aleppo, Syria
An unidentified man was killed following an alleged Russian airstrike on Babis, Aleppo, local media reported. According to one source, a woman was wounded, and most other sources reported several were wounded. The majority of sources didn't attribute blame, however several pointed to Russian warplanes. Sources reported the alleged use of rockets and vacuum missiles. There…
Summary
Published
11 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
11 January 2017
Incident Code
LQ038
Location
بنغازي, Ganfouda, Benghazi, Libya
Alnabaa TV reported that a foreign aircraft conducted airstrikes in Ganfouda. Its source in the Benghazi Shura Council didn’t confirm any casualties. According to Alnabaa, Ganfouda has also been hit by artillery shelling in the early morning hours and civilian infrastructure was heavily targeted in the strike. Alnabaa suspected civilians in the buildings but couldn’t confirm…
Summary
Published
11 January 2017
Military Actor
Unknown
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Incident Date
11 January 2017
Incident Code
RS1818
Location
بلدة حور, Hor, Aleppo, Aleppo, Syria
One unidentified civilian was killed - and others were wounded - in an alleged Russian airstrike on Hor, Aleppo, local media reported. All sources attributed the blame to Russian warplanes. There are no other details at this time.
Summary
Published
11 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
1–2
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
10 January 2017
Incident Code
TS045
Location
الباب, Al Bab, Aleppo, Syria
Seven or eight civilians died including one child and as many as 30 more were injured in alleged Turkish air and artillery strikes on Al Bab, Syria, according to sources on the ground. Ameer Alabaad put the death toll at six civilians with 12 more wounded - "mostly children and women" - in a "Turkish…
Summary
Published
10 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
7–8
Civilians reported injured
10–30
Military Actor
Turkish Military
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Incident Date
10 January 2017
Incident Code
RS1817
Location
الشخ علي, Al Sheikh Ali, Aleppo, Aleppo, Syria
Between two and seven civilians were wounded following an alleged Russian airstrike on Al Sheikh Ali, Aleppo. Most sources blamed Russia for the raids, with some attributing no blame. It was reported that despite their being no deaths, two of the victims were seriously injured, and were transferred to hospitals in Turkey. According to Syria News…
Summary
Published
10 January 2017
Civilians reported injured
2–7
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
9 January 2017
Incident Code
CI409
Location
Mosul, Baladiyat / Al Sukkar, Nineveh, Iraq
In an incident not previously tracked by Airwars, the Coalition later confirmed the deaths of two civilians in an event in northeast Mosul. The event was later confirmed as a British airstrike. In its May 2018 civilian casualty report, the Coalition noted: "During a strike which destroyed Daesh vehicle-borne improvised explosive device used to attack…
Summary
Published
9 January 2017
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
2
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
9 January 2017
Incident Code
TS044
Location
بزاعة, Baza’a town, Aleppo, Syria
Between two and three civilians including a child and a woman died and 12 others were wounded in an alleged Turkish shelling of Baza’a town in the eastern Aleppo countryside, Syria, sources on the ground reported. According to the Syrian Network for Human Rights, "two civilians (a child and a woman) died in a Der’ Al…
Summary
Published
9 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
2–3
Civilians reported injured
12
Military Actor
Turkish Military
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Incident Date
9 January 2017
Incident Code
RS1816
Location
تدمر, Palmyra , Homs, Syria
Civilians were killed and wounded following an alleged Russian airstrike on Palmyra. All sources blamed Russian warplanes for the strikes. Although no sources reported on a specific number of casualties, most sources reported that there were killed and wounded civilians at the scene. Reportedly, a car of displaced civilians fleeing their town as a result…
Summary
Published
9 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
0–2
Civilians reported injured
0–2
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
8 January 2017
Incident Code
RS1815
Location
الحابوسة, Al Haboussah, Aleppo, Aleppo, Syria
One civilian was killed in an alleged aerial bombardment of Al Haboussah, Aleppo. Sources either blamed Russian warplanes for the raid, or did not attribute any blame. Despite the Violations Documentation Centre listing the victim as an adult male, an image of a child was published alongside a Facebook status, naming the victim. We are therefore…
Summary
Published
8 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
7 January 2017
Incident Code
CS430
Location
كسرة شيخ (جمعة), Kasrat Sheikh (Juma'a), Raqqa, Syria
Up to five civilians were reported killed in an alleged Coalition drone strike on Kasret al Sheikh Kom’a. According to Raqqa is Being Slaughtered, the attack “targeted a car belonging to a leader in Daesh whose name is Hussein Abu Zeid. He was on crutches.” Shaam News said five civilians died in the attack. According…
Summary
Published
7 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
4–5
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
7 January 2017
Incident Code
CS432
Location
السوا, Sawa, Deir Ezzor, Syria
Between five and 40 civilians reportedly died following a Coalition airstrike at al Sa’wa, according to local sources. The Coalition later confirmed killing just two civilians. According to Step News, “international coalition planes targeted last night oil terminal wells near the town of Al Sa’awa in the western countryside with dozens of air strikes, killing…
Summary
Published
7 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
5–40
Civilians reported injured
2–15
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
7 January 2017
Incident Code
TS043
Location
مدينة الباب, Al Bab, Aleppo, Syria
Between three and six civilians including one child died and several others were wounded in alleged Turkish air or artillery strikes on Al Bab, Syria, local media reported. Al Raed La Ykazeb Ahlahu cited the IS media agency Al A’amaq, reporting that there had been "18 Turkish raids on Al Bab and more than 100 artillery…
Summary
Published
7 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
3–6
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
Turkish Military
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Incident Date
7 January 2017
Incident Code
USSOM068
Location
Gaduud, Lower Juba, Somalia
In the last declared Somalia strike of Barack Obama's presidency, the US conducted a “self-defence strike” against al Shabaab on January 7th, according to a US Africa Command press release published on January 10th. The strike was conducted “in coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia, Somali partner forces, African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM)…
Summary
Published
7 January 2017
Strike Type
Airstrike
,
Counter-Terrorism Action (Ground)
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
7 January 2017
Incident Code
RS1814
Location
رسم العبد, Hama, Hama, Syria
It was reported by a single source that one adult male died following alleged Russian shelling. It does not specifically say where he was killed, however, it does report that he was from in Rasem al Abd in Hama. There are no other details at this time.
Summary
Published
7 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
7 January 2017
Incident Code
TS076
Location
الباب, Al Bab, Aleppo, Syria
Six civilians were reported killed and 16 more injured because of Turkish shelling of Al Bab, Syria, according to a single source. Syria News Desk wrote: "Six civilians were killed and 16 others wounded last night after Turkish artillery targeted residential areas near the Al Manshiya roundabout in the city centre of Al Bab in…
Summary
Published
7 February 2017
Civilians reported killed
6
Civilians reported injured
16
Military Actor
Turkish Military
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Incident Date
7 January 2017
Incident Code
CI400
Location
الموصل, Mosul, East, Nineveh, Iraq
Local and medical sources said that 15 civilians were killed and many others injured and children displaced, in an alleged Coalition airstrike. Al Jazeera said that as many as 27 civilians were killed on Saturday in an airstrike by the international coalition in the east of Mosul. A medical source, D. Raed Ahmed al-Hamdani, had…
Summary
Published
7 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
15
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
7 January 2017
Incident Code
CI401
Location
ابن الهيثم, Mosul, ibn El Haithem new area, Nineveh, Iraq
Local and medical sources said that 12 civilians were killed and many others injured, mostly displaced women and children, in the locality of Ibn al-Haytham – new area of Mosul (the valley of the eye) due to Coalition airstrikes southeast of Mosul. Al Jazeera said that the Coalition strikes hit the area “where displaced families…
Summary
Published
7 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
12
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
6 January 2017
Incident Code
CS426
Location
تفتناز, Taftanaz, Idlib, Syria
A reported unilateral US airstrike targeted and possibly killed Sheikh Yones Shoaib, aka Abu Hassan Taftanaz – a key leader of Fatah al-Sham. However his 15-year old son Hasan Younes Shoeaib also reportedly died, along with at least one other relative. The Syrian Observatory later questioned whether Sheikh Yones Shoaib in fact died. In June…
Summary
Published
6 January 2017
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported killed
2
Civilians reported injured
2
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
6 January 2017
Incident Code
CI397
Location
حي الزراعي, Mosul: Agricultural District, Nineveh, Iraq
Local sources initially said that a family of three children and their grandmother were killed after their house was hit by a missile during Coalition raids on the Agricultural residential neighbourhood in central Mosul area, which at the time was under ISIS control. The New York Times later put the overall death toll at 16.…
Summary
Published
6 January 2017
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
16
Civilians reported injured
3–6
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
6 January 2017
Incident Code
TS041
Location
Al Bab, Aleppo, Syria
Between six and ten civilians died and up to 30 more were wounded in alleged Turkish air and artillery strikes on Al Bab, Syria, local media reported. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, at least six civilians died and others were wounded - including children - in Turkish strikes on Al Bab -…
Summary
Published
6 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
6–10
Civilians reported injured
13–30
Military Actor
Turkish Military
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Incident Date
6 January 2017
Incident Code
TS042
Location
العمادية, Al A’mya, Aleppo, Syria
Between three and eight civilians including two children died in artillery and/or air strikes on the Syrian village of Al A’mya in the eastern Aleppo countryside, according to local media - though sources were conflicted as to whether this was the work of Turkey or the Syrian regime. Halhos1 was among sources blaming Turkey. It…
Summary
Published
7 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
3–8
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
Turkish Military
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Incident Date
5 January 2017
Incident Code
TS040
Location
الباب, Al Bab, Aleppo, Syria
Two civilians were reportedly killed in an alleged Turkish artillery shelling on Al Bab. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights wrote: "And two citizens, including a child, were killed in shelling by Turkish forces on areas in Al Bab city in the northeastern countryside of Aleppo." The ISIS propaganda outlet Al Raed La Ykazeb Ahlahu…
Summary
Published
5 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
2
Civilians reported injured
11–15
Military Actor
Turkish Military
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Incident Date
5 January 2017
Incident Code
LC058
Location
قنفودة, Ganfouda, Benghazi, Libya
Libya Alahrar TV reported on Facebook that four children were killed in an airstrike in Ganfouda carried out by the UAE in support of LNA. A two-family house was reportedly hit in the strike. Other sources, such as Morasel Benghazi and bngazy22, also reported the death of four children, some of them quoting the Saraya…
Summary
Published
5 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
4
Military Actor
Libyan National Army
,
LNA/UAE Military/Egyptian Military
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Incident Date
4 January 2017
Incident Code
CI389
Location
17 تموز, Mosul, Talmuz/ July 17th, Nineveh, Iraq
Press and local sources said that 16 displaced civilians were killed or injured, mostly children and women, after Coalition warplanes targeted their houses in 17 July neighbourhood, at the right side of Mosul. The Correspondences team spoke of 9 killed and several wounded in the alleged Coalition strikes. Other sources also reported coalition strikes in…
Summary
Published
4 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
9
Civilians reported injured
7
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
4 January 2017
Incident Code
CI390
Location
حي المزارع, Mosul, Mazari / Farms, Nineveh, Iraq
A local source said that a named civilian, Imad Ahmed, was killed in the bombing of Farms district, north of Mosul. No other details were known at the time. On March 4th the Coalition confirmed that it had killed civilians that day in Mosul in two incidents. An official later confirmed to Airwars that the…
Summary
Published
4 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
4 January 2017
Incident Code
CS4254a
Location
مزرعة الرشيد, Al Rashid Farm, Raqqa, Syria
In a series of raids on the towns of Rashid and Aweij in the countryside of Raqqa, an alleged Coalition airstrike struck Al Rashid Farm. Four civilians were reported killed in strike, including a woman, and six others were wounded. In their June 2020 civilian casualty report, the US-led Coalition assessed reports that they were…
Summary
Published
4 January 2017
Civilians reported killed
4
Civilians reported injured
6
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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