Policy

179115

airwars.org ↗

18 Jun, 2025

Investigations, Policy

The U.S. killed almost as many civilians in 52 days as the previous 23 years of U.S. action in Yemen

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

173679

airwars.org ↗

3 Apr, 2025

Investigations, Policy

What the chats signal about Trump’s Yemen bombing campaign

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

126307

airwars.org ↗

12 Dec, 2024

Policy, Report, Research

Patterns of harm analysis – Gaza, October 2023

Analysis finds first month of Gaza bombing campaign among the most intense and destructive in modern warfare

118169

airwars.org ↗

9 Oct, 2024

Investigations, Policy

The Killings They Tweeted

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

126303

1 Oct, 2024

Policy, Research

Annex: Patterns of Civilian Harm in Gaza, October 2023

Annex This is an expedited annex of all evidence and data from a forthcoming Airwars report on patterns of civilian harm from October 2023, in the Gaza Strip. The report will be published in the coming weeks. Update: Airwars’ Gaza Patterns of Harm report can now be read online here.   Annex-1: Patterns of Death, […]

111907

airwars.org ↗

24 Jul, 2024

Investigations, Policy

One Name, Two Lists

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

110186

1 May, 2024

Policy, Research

Iraq, Somalia, Syria, Yemen

Analysis: U.S. declares its military actions worldwide killed no civilians in 2022

The US declares its military actions in 2022 resulted in no civilians killed or injured. Airwars finds otherwise

173600

airwars.org ↗

7 Mar, 2024

Investigations, Policy

The bombing of Quala 4131

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

106074

26 Feb, 2024

Policy, Research

Palestinian territories

Two weeks under scrutiny: Patterns of harm reported in Gaza following ICJ ruling

Palestinian civilians were killed every day during the two weeks following the International Court of Justice ruling on Gaza, analysis finds

86454

31 Jan, 2024

Policy

Libya

Airwars/Altinget investigation sparks Danish civilian harm review

Danish Armed Forces ordered to conduct a formal review of the allegations

101677

25 Jan, 2024

Investigations, Policy

Libya

Denmark admits role in NATO airstrikes on Libya that killed 14 civilians in 2011

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

88011

24 Nov, 2023

Investigations, Policy, Update

Syria

Tribunal notice: Airwars to challenge UK refusal over civilian harm next week

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

94908

21 Nov, 2023

Investigations, Policy

Israel, Palestinian territories

No safe place – tracking civilian harm in southern Gaza

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

91765

31 Jul, 2023

Policy, Research

Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria

Impossible standards: An analysis of the US military’s Baghdadi raid review

Unrealistic US standards for confirming civilian harm make it nearly impossible to acknowledge civilian casualties

89470

18 May, 2023

Policy, Research

Ukraine

Patterns of civilian harm from alleged Russian actions in Kharkiv oblast

Russian forces killed hundreds of Kharkiv civilians during the 2022 invasion, research finds

88011

4 Apr, 2023

Investigations, Policy

Iraq, Syria

Only official civilian victim of UK’s bombing campaign against IS appears not to exist

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

87768

airwars.org ↗

21 Mar, 2023

Investigations, Policy

The hidden casualties of Britain’s war

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

87009

1 Feb, 2023

Policy, Research

Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, Yemen

US airstrikes fell to historic low in 2022, despite fresh operations

The overall number of declared US airstrikes across all monitored military theatres fell from 441 in 2021 to a minimum of 36 in 2022

84863

29 Sep, 2022

Policy, Research

Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Syria

Pentagon annual report admits 12 deaths resulting from US actions in 2021

All deaths reported were in Afghanistan

82449

4 May, 2022

Investigations, Policy

Ukraine

Counting the Dead in Ukraine

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

82612

7 Apr, 2022

Policy

Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, Libya, Palestinian territories, Somalia, Syria, Ukraine, Yemen

Five takeaways from the first day of EWIPA negotiations

The shadow of the Ukraine conflict loomed large over the first day of the informal UN-backed consultations on a political declaration on restricting the use of wide area effect explosive weapons in populated areas (EWIPA), currently underway in Geneva. Delegates from more than 65 nations have gathered to fine tune the language of the political […]

82576

6 Apr, 2022

Policy

Scottish National Party official: UK, US should back explosive weapons limits

Stewart McDonald MP, the defence spokesperson for Scotland’s ruling Scottish National Party (SNP), called on Wednesday for the United States and United Kingdom to join those nations backing restrictions on the use of explosive weapons in urban environments during key talks in Geneva. On April 4th the SNP became the largest British party – and […]

86371

22 Mar, 2022

Investigations, Policy

Syria, Ukraine

How Russia is using tactics from the Syrian playbook in Ukraine

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

82128

22 Feb, 2022

Policy

Syria

Why a Russian war in Ukraine would be particularly deadly for civilians

On February 21st Russian President Vladimir Putin announced he would recognise the independence of two separatist regions inside Ukraine, with Russian troops reportedly moving there – steps widely seen as edging towards a full conflict. If Russia does, as has been predicted, invade part or all of Ukraine in the coming days, there are reasons […]

81791

9 Feb, 2022

Policy

Airwars adds voice to 104 organisations calling on President Biden to overhaul US civilian harm approach

On February 8th, Airwars joined its voice with 104 other organisations – including human rights, humanitarian, protection of civilians, peacebuilding, civil liberties, social and racial justice, government accountability, veterans, and faith based NGOs – to call for President Joe Biden to act urgently to overhaul US civilian harm policies and practises. Recent New York Times […]

81461

28 Jan, 2022

Policy

US Defense Secretary announces major shakeup of Pentagon civilian harm policies

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has announced major proposals to overhaul how the US military monitors, assesses and documents when its actions kill civilians, a move warily welcomed by human rights and civilian harm mitigation NGOs. Building on years of documentation by groups like the Syrian Network for Human Rights and Airwars, since late 2021 […]

80441

9 Dec, 2021

Policy, Report

Israel, Palestinian territories, Syria

Israeli strikes on Gaza in May killed up to ten times as many civilians as lengthy Syria campaign, Airwars finds

'Why did they bomb us?' report finds major difference in military tactics, and outcomes for civilians

80520

8 Dec, 2021

Policy, Report

“Why did they bomb us?” Urban civilian harm in Gaza, Syria and Israel from explosive weapons use

‘Why did they bomb us?’ Urban civilian harm in Gaza, Syria and Israel from explosive weapons use‘ – which is published in Arabic, Hebrew and English – provides the first comparative analysis of two very different Israeli military campaigns. Applying the same open source monitoring methodology Airwars uses to track civilian harm caused by the […]

74513

8 Apr, 2021

Policy

Yemen

Mwatana blasts CENTCOM silence on civilians killed in Yemen

The Yemeni human rights group Mwatana has accused US Central Command of being “very disrespectful to victims”, after it emerged that CENTCOM has still not publicly responded to a major investigation into civilians killed by US airstrikes and ground raids. Given five months’ advance notice of the findings of the investigation, which comprehensively detailed the […]

71802

2 Mar, 2021

Investigations, Policy

Yemen

US military blames “administrative mistake” after forgetting its troops killed Yemeni civilians

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 […]