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النقير, Nakir, Idlib, Syria

A woman and two children were reported killed and another woman was injured in Nakir village near Maarat al Numan, in a Russian or Syrian regime attack. However reporting mentioning the use of cluster munitions at night strongly indicates Russian aircraft carried out the strike. Reporting from the scene, Shaam News said the camp for…

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Residential, IDP or Refugee Camp

Civilians reported killed

Civilians reported injured

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

Russian Military

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29 September 2015

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الموصل‎, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq

At least 20 civilians were reported killed and up to 31 injured after Coalition (or possibly Iraqi) aircraft allegedly hit the Sunni Wafq state religious affairs building adjacent to one of the largest mosques in Mosul. Aircraft reportedly targeted a meeting of senior Islamic State figures at the Waqf site, which has been taken over…

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29 September 2015

Civilians reported killed

Civilians reported injured

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

U.S.-led Coalition

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28 September 2015

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معدان, Ma'adan, Raqqa, Syria

One or more non-combatant males were reported killed in an alleged Coalition strike at Ma’adan by a number of sources. All were agreed that one unnamed man was killed and seven people injured. The Damascus Centre for Human Rights Studies and Raqaa is Being Slaughtered listed, Munzer Ali Al A’asskar, as having been killed in…

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28 September 2015

Civilians reported killed

Civilians reported injured

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

U.S.-led Coalition

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27 September 2015

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الموصل‎, West Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq

Local and medical sources said that 13 civilians were killed and up to six more injured after Coalition planes struck their homes in the centre of Mosul, while three more civilians died after a shop was reportedly struck by the Coalition in the west of the city. This report relates to the west Mosul allegation.…

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27 September 2015

Civilians reported killed

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

U.S.-led Coalition

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27 September 2015

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الموصل‎, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq

Local and medical sources said that 13 civilians were killed and up to six more injured after Coaliton planes struck their homes in the centre of Mosul, while three more civilians died after a shop was reportedly struck by the Coalition in the west of the city. This report references the event in central Mosul.…

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27 September 2015

Civilians reported killed

Civilians reported injured

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

U.S.-led Coalition

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21 September 2015

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الرقة‎, Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria

An adult male named as Muhammad Khalifa al Hasan – a civil engineer from Bokros in Deir Ezzor – was allegedly killed in a Coalition strike according to some sources. Others said he had died in a regime attack. A Facebook page covering the locality of Deir Ezzor, where the victim is from, noted that…

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21 September 2015

Civilians reported killed

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

U.S.-led Coalition

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20 September 2015

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الرقة‎, Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria

An internally displaced person, a young girl named as Fatima Hasan Al Steif from Aleppo, was allegedly killed by a Coalition strike according to sources. Fatima was said to be the daughter of Hasan Al Steif, and the family had been displaced from the town of Al Safira, in Aleppo province, to Raqaa. In its…

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20 September 2015

Civilians reported killed

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

U.S.-led Coalition

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17 September 2015

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الحويجة, Hawijah, Kirkuk, Iraq

A reported evening airstrike by a drone or other Coalition aircraft at Hawijah was said to have killed five civilians and injured a further seven or more people. Al Amaaq, the media wing of ISIS, reported the "Killing [of] five civilians and wounding of seven others in the bombing by a US aircraft in the…

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17 September 2015

Civilians reported killed

Civilians reported injured

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

U.S.-led Coalition

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16 September 2015

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جديد عقيدات, Jadid Akidat, Deir Ezzor, Syria

Six civilians were reported killed and 10 injured in either a Coalition or Assad regime airstrike. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, “Six civilians were killed including children while no less than 10 others were wounded by the aerial bombardment by the U.S led coalition warplanes in Jadid Akidat in the eastern countryside…

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16 September 2015

Civilians reported killed

Civilians reported injured

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

U.S.-led Coalition

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14 September 2015

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الرطبة, Ar Rutbah, Al Anbar, Iraq

The marketplace in Ar Rutbah was hit in an alleged Coalition airstrike according to reports, killing up to five people and injuring eight more. An adult male and a young male child were pictured among the dead. Iraqi Revolution for example reported that "heavy shelling targeted Rutba focused on the market and fuel station and…

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14 September 2015

Civilians reported killed

Civilians reported injured

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

U.S.-led Coalition

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6 September 2015

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دير الزور‎, Deir ez-Zor, Deir Ezzor, Syria

A single source, Damascus Centre for Human Rights Studies, reported that a non-combatant male named as Khitab al Zaher Al Hussein died in an alleged Coalition strike on Dayr ez Zawr. Mr al Hussein was reportedly from al Kharita in the province. The two sources were unclear as to whether he had died in Deir…

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6 September 2015

Civilians reported killed

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

U.S.-led Coalition

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5 September 2015

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تل براك, Tall Birak, or villages to the south, Al Hassakah, Syria

Reports emerged on the evening of September 5th that a 13-year old boy named as Abboud Al Kharnoub may have died in a Coalition strike in the vicinity of Tal Brak near al Hassakah. Baladi News also reported that a number of women were injured, without giving further details. It also said that the casualties…

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5 September 2015

Civilians reported killed

Civilians reported injured

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

U.S.-led Coalition

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3 September 2015

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الموصل‎, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq

A single source, NINA, alleged that the Coalition had killed 13 civilians during airstrikes on ISIS targets in the south of Mosul city. According to the National Iraqi News Agency, "33 civilians were martyred and wounded, including women and children, following aerial bombardment by the international Coalition which targeted residential areas in the south of Mosul,…

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3 September 2015

Civilians reported killed

Civilians reported injured

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

U.S.-led Coalition

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3 September 2015

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بين جزيرة الخالدية, حصيبة والبوعبيد, Between Khalidiya Island, Husaybah and Albu Obaid, Al Anbar, Iraq

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq noted in January 2016 that two possible civilian casualty incidents had taken place in Ramadi. The Coalition has confirmed carrying out strikes in the vicinity that day. According to UNAMI, “On 3 September an airstrike hit a bridge in Jazeera al-Khaldiya, around 20 kilometres east of Ramadi, Anbar,…

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3 September 2015

Civilians reported killed

Civilians reported injured

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

U.S.-led Coalition

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الباب, Al-Bab, Aleppo, Syria

A six-months pregnant woman named as Ghafran Al Jabli was reported killed in an event at Al Bab along with her 10-year old nephew, Mohammad Al Waki. Syrian Martyrs reported that the deaths were caused by a Coalition strike on the outskirts of the city. However VDC described the cause of death as shooting, while…

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Civilians reported killed

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions, Small arms and light weapons

U.S.-led Coalition

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الموصل‎, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq

A single source, NINA, reported that a Coalition strike on a house at Hamam al-Alil, near Mosul “led to the martyrdom of all the family that inhabited consisted of nine members, including three children and a woman.“ As NINA noted: "Local residents told the National Iraqi News Agency that the international coalition aircraft bombed a…

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Civilians reported killed

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

U.S.-led Coalition

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الموصل‎, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq

Local sources claimed that a Coalition airstrike aimed at an ISIL vehicle instead hit nearby celebrations, killing 18 people including three medics. One was later named as dentist Dr. Samir Ibrahim while the UN noted that a father and child died in the reported event. According to NINA, the deaths occurred when a missile accidentally…

Summary

Airstrike and/or Artillery

Civilians reported killed

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

U.S.-led Coalition

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الرقة‎, Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria

Reports claimed that three civilians (a woman and one or two children) and 8 Daesh fighters were killed following two raids by the Coalition in an area surrounding a sugar factory or grain mill near the city. Local activist Abu Ibrahim Al Raqawi said of the attack on the mill: “Although it is not a…

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Civilians reported killed

Military actors reported killed

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

U.S.-led Coalition

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القائم, Al Qa'im, Al Anbar, Iraq

One civilian was reported killed and five injured in an alleged Coalition airstrike at the border town of al Qaim. Citing a ‘medical source in the city, al-Gharbiya eported that “a young man was killed as a result of the bombing was carried out by one of the [Coalition] warplanes on the neighborhoods of the…

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Civilians reported killed

Civilians reported injured

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

U.S.-led Coalition

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الرقة‎, Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria

A young adult male civilian was reported killed in an afternoon airstrike by the Coalition in Raqqah. He was named on a Facebook memorial page as Mut’ib Khamees Al Jarbou’. No further details were given of how he had died. In its monthly civilian casualty assessment for October 2019 – published on December 5th of…

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Civilians reported killed

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

U.S.-led Coalition

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تلبيسة, Talbisah, Homs, Syria

Damascus Centre for Human Rights Studies named Bassam Abd Al Kareem Al Sai’id as a civilian victim of alleged Coalition bombing on Talbissa, Homs. A second source naming him also as Abu Khaled, says he was from Talbissa, Homs but killed in Raqqa as a result of coalition bombing. In its monthly civilian casualty assessment for…

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Civilians reported killed

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

U.S.-led Coalition

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13–14 August, 2015

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مروح, Marwah, Aleppo, Syria

Six civilians, all members of the same family, were killed in an alleged Coalition strike on the Daesh-occupied town of Al Mourouj (or Al Mourwah) according to multiple reports. Saudi newspaper Asharq al Awsat reported that “six civilians were killed on Friday evening [August 14th] after an international Coalition plane bombed the village of Al…

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Civilians reported killed

Civilians reported injured

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

U.S.-led Coalition

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الرطبة, Ar Rutbah, Al Anbar, Iraq

Coalition aircraft were alleged to have struck civilians some 15 km from Ar Rutbah, at the Haj Saleh Mraid Kubaisi glassworks factory. According to a number of sources, some families had fled the town for fear of airstrikes, only for members to be killed in an alleged Coalition attack on a civilian vehicle. It was…

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Civilians reported killed

Civilians reported injured

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

U.S.-led Coalition

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البوكمال, Abu Kamal, Deir Ezzor, Syria

Five members of one family including three children were killed in a reported 1.30am Coalition strike on the Syria-Iraq border, according to two sources. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights noted the following: “Suspected US-led coalition warplanes carried out several raids after midnight on places around Aysha hospital and other places around the city of…

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Civilians reported killed

Civilians reported injured

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

U.S.-led Coalition

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الرطبة, Ar Rutbah, Al Anbar, Iraq

Local sources reported that four non-combatants were killed and six injured in an alleged Coalition airstrike at Ar Rutbah. According to Iraqi Revolution, "the alliance bombed Rutba in the morning, leading to the martyrdom and wounding of 10 civilians." Iraq Body Count, citing Xinhua [source now lost], said that four civilian fatalities had been reported…

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Civilians reported killed

Civilians reported injured

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

U.S.-led Coalition

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البوكمال, Abu Kamal, Deir Ezzor, Syria

A single source, the Damascus Centre for Human Rights Studies, reported that Ahmad al Awad had died in what was described as a Coalition strike at Bukamal. While single source, a Coalition attack was confirmed in the vicinity in daily reports at the time. In its civilian casualty report for October 2019 – published on…

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Civilians reported killed

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

U.S.-led Coalition

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ﺣﻠﺐ, Nahiyat Sereen near Aleppo, Aleppo, Syria

A reported Coalition airstrike at 3.45pm killed up to seven civilians including two children, at Nahiyat Sereen near Aleppo. One young victim, Mohammad Jassen Al Abou Rakan, was decapitated in the incident, with graphic images of his body widely distributed on social media. Islamic State later published a propaganda video of the event, including interviews…

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Civilians reported killed

Civilians reported injured

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

Turkish Military, U.S.-led Coalition

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مجارين, Majareen, Nineveh, Iraq

According to local MP Abdulrahman al Louzi, a dozen male agricultural workers died when the Coalition struck the village of Majareen. Among the dead were said to be five brothers from one family. The men were reported to have been converting hay to animal feed at the time of the attack. According to al-Louzi, “I…

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Civilians reported killed

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

U.S.-led Coalition

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18–24 July, 2015

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الرقة‎, Al Sabahiah area of West Raqqa, Raqqa, Syria

An alleged coalition strike on an Islamic State checkpoint in a suburb of west Raqaa reportedly killed 22-year old Omar Huwaidi Al Mueissat when a missile hit the family house. His 17-year old brother Ali Huwaidi al Mueissat was also reported to have been severely injured in the incident, suffering a broken pelvis and wounds…

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Civilians reported killed

Civilians reported injured

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

U.S.-led Coalition

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الرقة‎, Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria

The Damascus Centre for Human Rights Studies website named Ala’a Abou Abdallah from Deir Ba’alba, Homs as having been killed by Coalition bombing in Raqqa on July 13th. The Syrian Human Rights Committee also named Ala’a as having been killed. No additional public details could be found relating to this event. In its civilian casualty…

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Civilians reported killed

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

U.S.-led Coalition

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