Incident date
June 8, 2016
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17 تموز, Mosul, Talmuz / July 17th, Nineveh, IraqMultiple civilians were reported killed and injured in alleged Coalition airstrikes on the July 17th district of Mosul. According to Mosul Eye, the strikes on a Wednesday night took place at prayer time near a mosque in the Almoghait area – particularly busy during Ramadan. The attack “left several civilians killed and wounded as well
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May 21, 2016
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القيارة, Qayarrah, Nineveh, IraqAccording to a field investigation conducted by reporters Azmah Khan and Anand Gopal for the New York Times Magazine, one civilian was killed by a Coalition airstrike on an ISIS courthouse in Qayyarah. According to the reporters, the following occurred: “On or near May 21, 2016, an airstrike struck a house being used by ISIS
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Incident date
April 29, 2016
LOCATION
الموصل, Mosul, Nineveh, IraqThe attempted US targeted killing of the Australian Neil Prakash, ‘an ISIL external operations facilitator’ instead “struck three civilians on the road and one civilian located on an adjacent compound,” CENTCOM admitted three months later. Among the four civilians who were killed in the airstrike that day, one man was named by local sources, Ziad
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Incident date
April 9, 2016
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الموصل, Mosul, Nineveh, IraqThe Coalition conducted several night raids on telephone exchanges and reportedly the Babylon Bank in Mosul, which resulted in the deaths of at least six and as many as 67 civilians. In November 2016 the US initially admitted to killing one civilian in the attack, noting that “during a strike against an ISIL tactical unit,
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Incident date
March 19, 2016
LOCATION
القيارة, Qayarrah, Nineveh, IraqAccording to a field investigation conducted by reporters Azmah Khan and Anand Gopal for the New York Times, seven civilian were killed and one injured by a Coalition airstrike on a railway station in Qayyarah. The two journalists provided Airwars with the following: “According to our reporting, the following occurred: When ISIS left a mortar
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Incident date
March 5, 2016
LOCATION
شركة البناء الجاهز, Mosul, Industrial area in Arabi, Nineveh, IraqAt least 21 civilians including 13 children reportedly died after an alleged night time Coalition strike on an abandoned factory in Mosul, which was being used by Daesh. The Coalition later said it had targeted an ‘ISIL weapons production facility’ in the city. This may also have been linked to the terror group’s chemical weapons
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Incident date
December 3, 2015
LOCATION
حميدات, Humaidat, Nineveh, IraqTwo children were reportedly killed in an alleged Coalition strike on the town of Hemidiat to the west of Mosul. According to Shafaqna and others, the strike hit the commercial district of the town: “The death of two children has beeen reported from an aerial bombardment by international Coalition aircraft west of Mosul. Early detection of
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Incident date
November 7, 2015
LOCATION
Qayarrah, Nineveh, IraqAccording to a field investigation conducted by reporters Azmah Khan and Anand Gopal for the New York Times Magazine, one civilian was killed and one injured by a Coalition airstrike on Qayyarah – both of them young children. The Coalition admitted the casualties in early 2020. Khan and Ghopal report the following: “Tibea Alla, a
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October 30, 2015
LOCATION
Qayyarah City Hall, Qayyarah City Hall area, Nineveh, IraqMore than four years after the event, the Coalition finally conceded the death of a civilian during an October 2015 airstrike on Qayarrah. According to a field investigation conducted by reporters Azmah Khan and Anand Gopal for the New York Times Magazine, one civilian was killed by a Coalition airstrike on Qayyarah in this incident.
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October 22, 2015
LOCATION
البلعوم, Baloum, Deir Ezzor, SyriaAccording to reports civilian facility guard Waleed Mekhlef Al Abbad was killed in a Coalition raid on the Al Omar oil field. According to local reports, midnight airstrikes were followed by a raid involving up to six Coalition helicopters. Ara News cited media activist Yasser al-Dairi from Al Mayadeen as saying the raid “targeted an
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October 4, 2015
LOCATION
الحويج, Al Huwaij , Al Hassakah, SyriaThe Syrian News Network reported Coalition strikes on the village of Huwaij to the west of Al Hassakah. Step News also reported that “Coalition aircraft targets ISIS-run center in the village of Al-Huwaij and for information on the size of the losses yet.” #سوريا #Syria#الحسكةطيران التحالف يستهدف مركز لتنظيم الدولة في قرية الحويج ولامعلومات عن
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Incident date
September 29, 2015
LOCATION
الموصل, Mosul, Nineveh, IraqAt 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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Incident date
September 28, 2015
LOCATION
معدان, Ma'adan, Raqqa, SyriaOne 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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September 27, 2015
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السلخة, Jala'a (Al-Salakha), Deir Ezzor, SyriaFrance’s first air strike in Syria was alleged to have killed at least 30 child soldiers of Islamic State, according to reports. The attack – which France later declared was a five-hour raid by multiple aircraft on a ‘Daesh training camp’ – targeted among other sites a palm grove at Al Shalkha, near the town
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Incident date
September 27, 2015
LOCATION
الموصل, Mosul, Nineveh, IraqLocal 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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September 27, 2015
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داقوق, Duquq, Kirkuk, IraqA strike by what at the time was an unknown aircraft killed eight civilians in Yurgon (or Alarkon) village near Duquq, according to local reports. The US led Coalition admitted responsibility for seven deaths in March 2020. Waradana at the time cited one anonymous source: “The bombing led to the destruction of a number houses…
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Incident date
September 27, 2015
LOCATION
الموصل, West Mosul, Nineveh, IraqLocal 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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September 21, 2015
LOCATION
الرقة, Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, SyriaAn 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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Incident date
September 20, 2015
LOCATION
الرقة, Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, SyriaAn 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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Incident date
September 19, 2015
LOCATION
الرقة, Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, SyriaTwo women, sharing the same surname, al-Naji, were reported by a single source as having been killed in a Coalition strike at Raqaa. They are listed as originally from Talbissa is Homs. No other details about this even are presently known. In its monthly civilian harm assessment report for November 2019 – published on January
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September 17, 2015
LOCATION
الحويجة, Hawijah, Kirkuk, IraqA 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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September 16, 2015
LOCATION
جديد عقيدات, Jadid Akidat, Deir Ezzor, SyriaSix 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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September 14, 2015
LOCATION
الرطبة, Ar Rutbah, Al Anbar, IraqThe 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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Incident date
September 11, 2015
LOCATION
الطوب, Al Toub, Deir Ezzor, SyriaA single source, the Damascus Centre for Human Rights Studies, reported that three non-combatant males, sharing the same surname of al Khoudar, died in an alleged Coalition strike at Al Toub. No further details were given. Syrian Martyrs also listed the dead while quoting the same source. In its monthly civilian harm assessment report for
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September 6, 2015
LOCATION
دير الزور, Deir ez-Zor, Deir Ezzor, SyriaA 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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Incident date
September 5, 2015
LOCATION
تل براك, Tall Birak, or villages to the south, Al Hassakah, SyriaReports 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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Incident date
September 3, 2015
LOCATION
بين جزيرة الخالدية, حصيبة والبوعبيد, Between Khalidiya Island, Husaybah and Albu Obaid, Al Anbar, IraqThe 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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Incident date
September 3, 2015
LOCATION
الموصل, Mosul, Nineveh, IraqA 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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Incident date
September 3, 2015
LOCATION
الرمادي, Ramadi city: eastern area, Al Anbar, IraqThe United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq noted in January 2016 that two possible civilian casualty incidents had taken place in the vicinity of Ramadi on September 3rd of the previous year. The Coalition has confirmed carrying out strikes in the area on that day. According to UNAMI, “[an] airstrike reportedly hit a residential area
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Incident date
August 29, 2015
LOCATION
الباب, Al-Bab, Aleppo, SyriaA 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