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6 posts
14 Jul, 2023
Policy
United Nations urges states to support casualty recording
Breakthrough report directly links casualty recording and human rights obligations
24 Mar, 2022
Research
Syria
Patterns of civilian harm from Russia’s military actions in Syria (2015-2022)
Since the beginning of Russia’s military intervention in Syria in 2015, Airwars has tracked, documented and preserved every local allegation of civilian harm resulting from Russian actions – over 4,000 individual incidents from 61,915 unique sources. We have collected 11,181 names of civilians reported killed, and identified 1,383 family members killed in the same incidents. […]
27 Aug, 2021
Policy
Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria
As warfare changes, the UK’s protection of civilians falls further behind
Over the last decade, warfare has undergone significant changes. Countries such as the UK and US have increasingly done their best to avoid large-scale ground deployments of their own troops, focusing instead on supporting local forces, for instance by providing air power. Through the monitoring of nearly 60,000 locally alleged civilian deaths caused by belligerents […]
22 Dec, 2020
Research
Airwars monthly assessment – November 2020
Major Conflict Monitoring Civilian harm from foreign military action in all tracked conflicts have remained low, with little change observed in November compared to previous months. In Syria, Russian actions have decreased from October. It has also been a quieter month for US-led actions in Syria, although reports of US-led strikes on Iranian forces in […]
4 Apr, 2017
Update
America’s shadow war in Syria
What began as a unilateral war against Al Qaeda may see the United States embroiled in Syria's affairs long after ISIL's defeat
4 Apr, 2017
Update
Syria
America’s shadow war in Syria
What began as a unilateral war against Al Qaeda may see the United States embroiled in Syria's affairs long after ISIL's defeat