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Incident Date
8 May 2017
Incident Code
CI695
Location
الإصلاح الزراعي, Mosul, Islah al Zirai, Nineveh, Iraq
Two local sources reported that three children and their mother were killed after a either an airstrike or rocket attack hit their house in Islah Al Zerae neighborhood, in West Mosul. The Nineveh Media Centre reported that “Local source confirmed the martyrdom of three children and their mother when a rocket attack targeted their house.”…
Summary
Published
8 May 2017
Civilians reported killed
4
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
8 May 2017
Incident Code
CS780
Location
حي الوهب, Tabaqah, Al Wahab (First Neighbourhood), Raqqa, Syria
According to the Smart News Network two civilians died and seven were injured – in addition to the death of one member of IS and the wounding of two more – in an alleged Coalition airstrike or artillery strike on Tabaqa. Other reports gave some context, with RFS noting that “Syrian Democratic Forces managed to…
Summary
Published
8 May 2017
Civilians reported killed
2
Civilians reported injured
7
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
8 May 2017
Incident Code
CS781
Location
الرقة, Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria
Between seven and ten civilians died and dozens more were wounded in an alleged Coalition airstrike on a vehicle carrying displaced civilians at the outskirts of Raqqa, according to local media. The Step News Agency reported: “On Monday, May 8, the International coalition committed a new massacre in Raqqa province after it targeted a convoy…
Summary
Published
8 May 2017
Civilians reported killed
7–10
Civilians reported injured
12–24
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
8 May 2017
Incident Codes
CS782 RS2213
Location
دبسي عفنان, Dibsi Afnan, Raqqa, Syria
Two adult male civilians died - as well as one additional child casualty - and up to a dozen or more were wounded in an airstrike on the village of Dibsi Afnan, according to local media. Most sources blame Russia, while some alleged that the regime was responsible – though more than three commentators also…
Summary
Published
8 May 2017
Civilians reported killed
2–3
Civilians reported injured
3–24
Military Actor
Russian Military
,
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
8 May 2017
Incident Codes
CS783 RS2214
Location
دبسي فرج, Dibsi Faraj, Raqqa, Syria
One civilian died and four more were wounded in an airstrike on Dibsi Faraj village, local sources said – though reports were conflicted as to whether the Coalition, Russia or the Syrian regime were to blame. The journalist Ahmad al Shibl reported the Coalition had been “targeting the main road between Dibsi Faraj and Dibsi…
Summary
Published
8 May 2017
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
4
Military Actor
Russian Military
,
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
8 May 2017
Incident Code
CS784
Location
مزرعة الجلاء, Al Jalaa farm, Raqqa, Syria
Three civilians died and several more were wounded in an alleged Coalition airstrike on Al Jalaa farm, according to local sources. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, “There is confirmed information about the death of three people of one family including two brothers who were killed due to bombing by warplanes believed to…
Summary
Published
8 May 2017
Civilians reported killed
3
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
8 May 2017
Incident Code
CS785
Location
كديران, Kdeiran, Raqqa, Syria
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that “warplanes believed to belong to the International Coalition bombed places in the Kdieran area which is located in the western countryside of al-Raqqa. There is information about casualties and damage to the property of the citizens.” Both Qasioun and Sohaib_heskayi reported the Coalition “destroyed the Al-Hamdawi mosque”…
Summary
Published
8 May 2017
Civilians reported injured
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
8 May 2017
Incident Code
CS786
Location
حي الوهب, Tabaqah, Al Wahab (First Neighbourhood), Raqqa, Syria
A family – comprising of a husband, wife and a two-year-old child – were reportedly killed in an alleged Coalition airstrike in the Al Awwal neighbourhood of Tabaqa. The first source, Mohab Nasser, reported the casualties and blamed the Coalition. All subsequent reporting was based on this report, however Euphrates Post also published an image…
Summary
Published
8 May 2017
Civilians reported killed
3
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
8 May 2017
Incident Code
CI697
Location
الموصل: غرب/الجانب الأيمن, Mosul, West / Right side, Nineveh, Iraq
A doctor reported to local media that up to 300 civilians had been killed and wounded in 48 hours of heavy fighting in West Mosul Farid Orfali, a doctor at a German field hospital on the western Mosul border, had told Alaraby news that “more than 300 civilians have been killed and wounded, and we…
Summary
Published
8 May 2017
Civilians reported killed
100–250
Civilians reported injured
100–250
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
8 May 2017
Incident Code
CI698
Location
Mosul, Al Hermat (nr al Haque mosque), Nineveh, Iraq
Three civilians were killed and three injured in a mortar strike by an unknown party during the battle for control of al Hermat, according to an Amnesty International field investigation. Amnesty shared the following eyewitness report with Airwars: “On 8 May, a mortar shell fell on my neighbour’s house, in Hermat 5, right next to…
Summary
Published
8 May 2017
Civilians reported killed
3
Civilians reported injured
3
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
7 May 2017
Incident Code
CS778
Location
الثورة, Tabaqah, Raqqa, Syria
At least five civilians, including two women, were reportedly killed and 11 more were injured in Tabaqa in what appears to be shelling by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) supported by airstrikes carried out by the Coalition. One member of ISIL was also reportedly killed and several more were injured, according to Smart News Agency.…
Summary
Published
7 May 2017
Civilians reported killed
5
Civilians reported injured
11
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
7 May 2017
Incident Code
CI693
Location
الشلالات, Mosul, Shalalat, Nineveh, Iraq
Residents and local media sources said that 34 civilians were killed and 77 (numbers reportedly mentioned by ISIL press agency) wounded after Coalition airstrikes and shelling by Iraqi government forces hit many neighbourhoods in West Mosul. @sh0_news said in a tweet that “more than 130 martyred civilians are the result of the bombing of the…
Summary
Published
7 May 2017
Civilians reported killed
34
Civilians reported injured
77
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
7 May 2017
Incident Code
CI694
Location
الموصل: غرب/الجانب الأيمن, Mosul, West / Right side, Nineveh, Iraq
One report on social media said that an ISIS member named Ali Ubaid ‘Issa Dagher (Abujrajis) was killed with his “entire family” including his mother in an airstrike. It is presently unclear in which West Mosul neighbourhood the strike occurred. No further details are presently known.
Summary
Published
7 May 2017
Civilians reported killed
3
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
Incident Code
CS779
Location
الثورة, Tabaqah, Raqqa, Syria
Between 20 and 40 civilians including eight children and four women died in an alleged Coalition airstrike on the Al Awwal and Al Thaleth neighbourhood of Al Tabaqa, according to local media. All sources attributed the incident to the Coalition, though there was some uncertainly on the date of the incident with a number of…
Summary
Published
7 May 2017
Civilians reported killed
20–40
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
6 May 2017
Incident Code
CS775
Location
الشهداء, al Shuhada, Raqqa, Syria
The Step News Agency reported that the Coalition “launched several air raids targeting al Shuhadaa [the Martyrs] district near E’nezan bakery in the city of Raqqa, which resulted in a number of wounded“. Sour News also reported an “air raid” – but didn’t identify the culprit – in the area “between the Bakery of E’nezan…
Summary
Published
6 May 2017
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
Incident Code
CS777
Location
between Al Jizera and Al Shamiyah (Raqqah), Raqqa, Syria
Summary
Published
6 May 2017
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
6 May 2017
Incident Code
CS774
Location
الثورة, Tabaqah, Raqqa, Syria
Two civilian males were reported injured in Tabaqa. However how the injuries were sustained was not clear. The two men were said to be in stable condition after being transported from Tabaqa to a hospital in Hasaka, roughly 250km away.
Summary
Published
6 May 2017
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
5 May 2017
Incident Code
CI690
Location
الإصلاح الزراعي, Mosul, Isilah Zeraei / Agrarian Reform, Nineveh, Iraq
Local media sources said – based on a statement issued by the Al Amaq (ISIL) press agency – that Coalition and Iraqi Air Force airstrikes hit several neighbourhoods in West Mosul, killing 24 civilians and injuring 75 others. A local resident reported that Azzawi Haj Hamid was among the deadly victims in Agrarian Reform neighbourhood.…
Summary
Published
5 May 2017
Civilians reported killed
24
Civilians reported injured
75
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
5 May 2017
Incident Code
CI691
Location
الاقتصاديين, Mosul, Itkisadeen/ Economist, Nineveh, Iraq
Residents and local media sources said that one civilian was killed and three others were injured after Coalition airstrikes targeted ISIL positions in Iktisadeen (Economists) neighborhood in West Mosul. Sawlf Ateka (local Facebook page) reported that Mahmud Yassin Mahmood al-Mawla was killed after the raids hit houses next to his.
Summary
Published
5 May 2017
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
3
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
5 May 2017
Incident Code
CI692
Location
Mosul, Al Hermat, Nineveh, Iraq
Heavy shelling of Hermat in West Mosul led to the deaths of five families, according to locals living in the street who were interviewd by Amnesty International. The following unpublished field report was shared with Airwars: “The bombing was random. There were airstrikes, helicopter strikes, artillery and rockets. There were 100s of strikes each day.…
Summary
Published
5 May 2017
Civilians reported killed
20–40
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
5 May 2017
Incident Code
CS770
Location
رقة السمرة, Raqqa al Samra, Raqqa, Syria
According to Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently, one child "died after he was hit with shrapnel when Coalition planes targeted Daesh trucks while they were setting up barriers on the edges of al Ballikh river near the village of Raqqa al Samra east of the city”. Al Raqqa Truth, SHRC and the Shaam News Network…
Summary
Published
5 May 2017
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
5 May 2017
Incident Code
CS771
Location
هنيدة, Hunaida, Raqqa, Syria
The Smart News Agency reported that “aircraft likely belonging to the coalition launched three raids on the town of Huneida (36 km west of the city of Raqqa), killing three civilians, and four members of IS, in addition to wounding 11 others.” The Step News Agency reported that there had been a Coalition strike on…
Summary
Published
5 May 2017
Civilians reported killed
3
Civilians reported injured
11
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
5 May 2017
Incident Code
CS772
Location
دبسي عفنان, Dibsi Afnan, Raqqa, Syria
According to the Smart News Agency, “eleven civilians were killed and injured earlier in the day in a bombing by likely allied aircraft on the village of Dabsi Afnan (120 km west of Raqqa).” No further details are currently available.
Summary
Published
5 May 2017
Civilians reported killed
1–11
Civilians reported injured
1–11
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
5 May 2017
Incident Code
CS773
Location
المنصورة, Al Mansoura, Raqqa, Syria
According to local sources, a young man died in an alleged Coalition airstrike on Al Mansoura. Raqqa Post reported he died when his car was targeted. There is no additional information at present.
Summary
Published
5 May 2017
Civilians reported killed
1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
4 May 2017
Incident Code
CI686
Location
الموصل: غرب, Mosul, Meshrfa, Nineveh, Iraq
Local press sources reported that eleven civilians – all from the same family – died after a Coalition airstrike hit their house in North-West Mosul. Amnesty later revealed the dead were from two separate named families. According to Yaqein Agency, “International Coalition aircraft launched raids on a residential area on the right side, in the…
Summary
Published
4 May 2017
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
11–12
Civilians reported injured
3
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
4 May 2017
Incident Code
CI687
Location
17 تموز, Mosul, July 17th, Nineveh, Iraq
Residents and local media sources said that Iraqi or Coalition airstrikes and shelling by Iraqi forces hit Al Walaa school, in the 17 July neighbourhood in West Mosul. This reportedly led to the death of up to 81 civilians – of whom 18 were children – and left 86 civilians injured. The school was said…
Summary
Published
4 May 2017
Infrastructure
Education
Civilians reported killed
69–81
Civilians reported injured
60–86
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
4 May 2017
Incident Code
CI688
Location
الرطبة, Ar Rutbah, Al Anbar, Iraq
In a previously unknown allegation, the Coalition denied involvement in an incident that they said was reported on social media. In their July 2017 civilian casualty report, the Coalition wrote: “May 4, 2017, near Ar Rutbah, Iraq, via social media report: No Coalition strikes were conducted on that day in the geographic area of the…
Summary
Published
4 May 2017
Civilians reported injured
0–1
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
4 May 2017
Incident Code
CI689
Location
الموصل: غرب, Mosul, Meshrfa, Nineveh, Iraq
A field investigation by Amnesty International found that a number of civilians were injured or possibly killed in an air or ground attack on the 60th Street area of Msherfa in West Mosul. The following Amnesty field report citing an eyewitness was shared with Airwars: “My family and I were staying at my aunt’s house…
Summary
Published
4 May 2017
Civilians reported killed
0–2
Civilians reported injured
3
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
4 May 2017
Incident Code
CS769
Location
الثورة, Tabaqah, Raqqa, Syria
Seven civilians reportedly died and dozens more were injured in alleged Coalition airstrikes on Tabaqa, according to local media. The Smart News Agency reported “that warplanes likely belonging to the international coalition launched six raids on the first [al Awwal] and third [al Thaleth] neighborhoods in the city on Thursday evening, killing seven civilians, including…
Summary
Published
4 May 2017
Civilians reported killed
7
Civilians reported injured
12–24
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date
3 May 2017
Incident Code
CS766
Location
شعيب الذكر, Sho'aib Al Zakir, Raqqa, Syria
Two local sources reported that Coalition airstrikes allegedly took place in Shoai’b Al-Zake on the outskirts of Dabsi Afnan, injuring several civilians. The village lies roughly 30km west of Tabaqa, and lies on the main road connecting the city and Aleppo. No civilian deaths have been reported and no further information is available at this…
Summary
Published
3 May 2017
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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