Investigations

Visual analysis of first usage of PrSM missile during Iran war reveals scale of civilian threat

Department of Defense report follows Airwars' strike-by-strike documentation of all U.S. bombing campaigns

Breaking down how militaries are offloading life and death decisions to flawed technologies

Airwars part of Latin American consortium piecing together victims of 'narco terrorist' killings

U.S. military told Airwars/Independent investigation it has 'no way of knowing' whether deadly strike relied on AI, causing alarm amid AI-assisted Iran attacks

U.S. and Israel hitting more targets than any previous campaign, numbers suggest

How 'Twitter randos' at Airwars and The Intercept disproved claims of "immediate" response

Landmark tribunal found UK's lack of published civilian harm policies may "undermine public confidence" in the system

Short film visualising the militarisation of humanitarian aid to reveal its deadly implications for the future

Searching for smugglers, the investigation instead uncovered how new technologies may be supercharging the virtual front of the war in Europe's east

How does Trump’s eight-week bombing campaign compare to the history of U.S. military action in Yemen?

Ignore the leaked messages - Trump's campaign is far more deadly than Biden's

A short film juxtaposing two videos along the same Gaza road. Taken five years apart, in 2020 and 2025, the footage is synchronised to illustrate the devastating impact of Gaza war

The challenges and methodologies of reconciling conflicting Syrian civilian death tolls

Matching Israeli military strike footage to civilian casualties on the ground to reveal full human cost of 'precise' campaign

Cross-referencing open source evidence with Gaza Health Ministry data finds early Ministry death figures largely accurate

Together with The Sunday Times, Airwars collated the details of more than 150 families that have lost multiple members in the Israel-Gaza war

Visual retelling of 2007 Dutch bombing in Afghanistan that killed at least 11 civilians, later ruled unlawful by Dutch court

A behind-the-scenes look at the investigation that forced an official Danish military review

Exposing the Danish military's role in 2011 Libya airstrikes that killed 14 civilians

What struck the journalists, where was it fired from, and were there any apparent military targets nearby?

Case brought to contest Ministry of Defence's lack of transparency on civilian harm processes

Tracking civilians killed in Gaza's designated 'safe zones' and how supposed havens became sites of fatal strikes

Investigation with the Financial Times into strike on an escape route

How Russia turned to a cheap Iranian-made suicide drone to terrorise civilians and hit infrastructure across Ukraine

Airwars/FT investigations shines light on secretive Alabuga 'special economic zone'

German tech parts found their way to Russian military drones despite sanctions, flowing through shadowy networks of middlemen and shell companies

Two-year investigation finds major flaws in British government's official narrative

The UK claims to have killed only one civilian in the war on ISIS. Airwars found otherwise

An ISIS prison break - and the American mistakes that made it more likely

Documentary with VICE investigates

A horrifying attack on a hospital in the Syrian city of Afrin left 19 people dead – and the perpetrators are still unknown.

A longstanding mechanism for verifying casualties of the Ukraine conflict have been subsumed by the scale of carnage since Russia’s February invasion.

Airwars examined a single Russian cluster munition strike on a blood donation centre and hospital, which may have caused a 350 metre span of damage, in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv

Why is the UN figure for the number of civilians killed in Ukraine so much lower than other estimates? An interview with Uladzimir Shcherbau head of the UN civilian casualty monitoring unit in Ukraine

The US-led International Coalition has quietly admitted to killing 18 more civilians in Iraq and Syria and injuring a further 11, its first such public concession in eight months.

Entire settlements reduced to rubble, attacks on civilian targets and the bombing of refugee exit routes were all part of Moscow’s brutal Syria campaign

Do citizens who take up arms to resist Russian invasion lose protected status? A layperson's guide to the lines between civilians, militants and soldier.

The map is designed for researchers seeking to understand how heavily populated Ukrainian neighbourhoods targeted by Russia are

Newly released documents allow fresh evaluation of how seriously the US military took reports of civilian harm. The findings suggest not very.

When two Iraqi holidaymakers were killed in the Kurdish region of the country, the finger of blame turned to Turkish strikes. But this investigation finds a roadside bomb was the more likely cause.

Is President Biden really going to end the America's decades-long campaign?

Almost 800 previously secret US airstrikes in Afghanistan during 2020 and 2021 are revealed, as US military declassifies data.

New Airwars research finds that 10 times more civilians were killed in 11 days of Israel’s bombing of Gaza than in the entirety of its 8-year campaign in Syria

The US government has admitted the last drone strike of the Afghan war killed an entire family. Why stop there?

A minimum of 22,000 civilians have been killed directly by US airstrikes since the start of the War on Terror in 2001, analysis finds.

Allied nations almost certainly killed them. So why did the Defense Department tell Congress that the US was responsible?

What would you do if you had minutes to leave your home forever? Residents of a Gaza apartment block recall the frantic moments before it turned to rubble

The alliance bombing campaign had a devastating toll—but, a decade after the war, leaders have still not taken responsibility.

During Libya's 2011 civil war, Norway came close to brokering a brokering deal that would have seen Colonel Gaddafi step aside. So why did the United States and France oppose it?

NATO members still refuse to discuss potential civilian harm from their strikes a decade after intervening against Gaddafi.

The US military has blamed an “administrative mistake” after conceding it forgot its own admission of the killing of up to 12 civilians during a raid on a Yemeni village in early 2017. Details of the admission feature in the Airwars annual report for 2020 which published March 2nd. The US military led a raid …

The release is a major breakthrough in transparency and could help Iraqis and Syrians finally secure apologies and even reparations for the death of family members

Key European allies are denying dozens of civilian deaths from their own actions - even where the US-led Coalition finds such cases to be credible.