Civilian Casualties

2 – 29

12–24

تل حسان, Tall Hassan, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

One named civilian died and between three and 15 others were injured in an airstrike on Tall Hassan’s main mosque, near Aleppo – though sources were conflicted as to whether Russia, the Assad regime or the US-led Coalition were to blame. Lens Young Manbij reported that “A short while ago a Coalition raid on the

Summary

(1 man)

3–15

Russian Military, Syrian Regime, US-led Coalition

4 named, 1 familiy identified

السوسة, Al Soussa, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

According to local sources, Coalition aircraft targeted the town of Al Soussa, which reportedly resulted in two civilians killed and an unspecified number of people injured. Initially Step News Agency reported that civilians were wounded when the towns of al Soussa, Al-Aleyat and Bubradan were targeted by airstrikes. In a later report, the media outlet

Summary

جزمتي, Jazmati neighbourhood, Aleppo, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

A single source, LCCSY, reported an unspecified number of civilians were killed and wounded in alleged Russian or Assad regime airstrikes on Aleppo’s Jazmati neighbourhood. @naifaleidi and @HalabTodayTV also reported Russian strike on Jazmati but made no mention of civilian harm. No further details are currently available.

Summary

Al Sha'afa, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

Up to 23 civilian non combatants – including 18 women who were reportedly the wives of ISIS fighters on external missions – died along with seven ISIS guards in an alleged Coalition airstrike on an ISIS-held house (and perhaps others) in al Sha’afa, according to sources on the ground. One source added that a child

Summary

18 – 20

(1 child18 women1 man)

حي بستان القصر, Bustan al Qasr (Aleppo), Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

According to local sources, one woman was killed in Russian raids on the Bustan al Qasr neighbourhood of Aleppo. HNN’s list of martyrs included, “an unidentified woman, following Russian aggression raids on Bustan al Qasr neighbourhood, civilian.” @RadioAlKul tweeted, “an apartment building in the neighbourhood of Bustan al Qasr was destroyed by Russian air raids

Summary

(1 woman)

تلبيسة, Talbisah, Homs, Syria

LOCATION

Three named civilians including a baby girl died and several more were wounded in a strike on Talbissa, according to local media – though reports were conflicted as to whether Russia or the Assad regime were to blame. The Shaam News Network reported that “a baby girl died as a result of warplanes carrying out

Summary

(2 children1 woman)

سراقب, Saraqib, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

Russian and Assad regime helicopters allegedly dropped what were reportedly exploding chloride barrels on a residential neighbourhood in Saraqeb in Idlib at 23.20 on Tuesday August 2nd. The Shaam News Network reported that this attack was a “revenge for the killing of a number of Russian officers after their helicopter crashed in the vicinity of

Summary

(2 children1 woman)

10–33

3 named, 1 familiy identified

كفر ناها, Kafr Naha, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

Five civilians died in an alleged Russian airstrike on Kafr Naha, according to local media. SRG_Syria tweeted that there were “five martyrs and many wounded due to Russian warplanes raids in Kafr Naha in Aleppo.” Al Jazeera, Syria Press and Syria News Dersk also put the death toll at five, while Halab News listed five

Summary

دارة عزة, Darat Izza, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

At least seven civilians including two women and two children were killed and up to 40 more wounded in alleged long-range ballistic missiles (Scud) strikes launched from battleships in the Mediterranean. But sources were conflicted as to whether this was the work of Russia or Syrian regime.The majority of sources attributed the attacks to Russian

Summary

7 – 8

(2 children2 women)

17–40

7 named

غرناطة, Gharnata, Homs, Syria

LOCATION

Two civilians were killed and others wounded an alleged Russia airstrike on Ghirnata village, according to local media. Nabd Syria and LCCSY blamed Russian airstrikes for the death of two non-combatants. Other sources mentioned artillery and air strikes in the area but didn’t say who carried them out. However, Homs Media Center reported regime actions

Summary

الصاخور, Al Sakhour (Aleppo), Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

Between one and 15 civilians were killed in either Russian or Syrian regime airstrikes on the Al Sakhour neighbourhood of Aleppo, local media reported. Microsyria reported 15 civilians were killed in the raids. According to Almesryoon, civilian infrastructure was struck by Russian jet, including “popular markets and bakeries”. Hassannkanjo wrote on Twitter: “Russian aviation targets

Summary

1 – 15

1 named

السوسة, Al Soussa, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

Up to four civilians from the same family including a baby girl (named as the daughter of Hamad Mussah Shahab) died in an alleged Coalition airstrike on a civilian home on Al Soussa, according to sources on the ground. Sources reported that the Coalition carried out several strikes on the area amid violent clashes between the SDF

Summary

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

1 – 4

(1 child1 woman)

Cause of injury / death

كقر بطنا, Kafr Batna, Damascus, Syria

LOCATION

Between eight and nine civilians were reportedly killed in alleged Russian or Assad regime airstrikes on Kafr Batna in Eastern Ghouta. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights put the death toll at three including one woman with “others” wounded. According to Enabbaladi, “nine people, including seven children, were killed as a result of the targeting

Summary

8 – 9

(4–7 children1 woman)

2–5

8 named, 1 familiy identified

جرجناز, Jarjanaz, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

Three civilians, a mother and her two children, were reported killed in an alleged Russian or Assad regime airstrike on Jarjanaz. Shahba reported: “Two children were killed with their mom in a Russian warplanes shelling in Jarjanaz and others wounded.” Halab Today TV published a similar report. All of the other sources reported that a

Summary

2 – 3

(2 children1 woman)

8–24

Geolocation

Town

قبطان الجبل, Qibtan al Ghabal, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

Five named civilians died and up to dozens more were wounded in an airstrike on Qebtan al-Jabal, according to local media – though sources were conflicted as to whether this was the work of Russia or the Assad regime. The Syrian Network for Human Rights put the death toll at three, including one girl, and

Summary

(1 child1 woman)

2–24

5 named, 2 families identified

الشيخ فارس, Sheikh Faress, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

Between five and eight civilians died in an alleged Russian airstrike on Aleppo’s Sheikh Faress neighbourhood, according to local media. LCCSY and Halab News were among sources attributing the event to Russia, and putting the death count at five civilians. According to Mojahedin: “the Civil Defence was able to lift 5 martyrs from the rubble

Summary

5 – 8

القيارة, Qayyarah, Al Shuhadaa, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

Local news service Al Sumaria claimed that “11 civilians from one family” died after coalition airstrikes hit the village of al Qayyarah south of Mosul on the morning of August 24th. Other sources, placing the death count slightly lower at 8-9 killed, reported that the attack had been carried out by a helicopter, possibly a

Summary

8 – 11

US-led Coalition, Iraq Government Forces

حي ‏المرجة‬, Marjah (Aleppo), Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

Between three and five civilians including two children and a woman died and up to 10 more were wounded in an airstrike or artillery shelling of a residential area in Aleppo’s Marjah neighbourhood, according to local media – though sources were conflicted as to whether Russia or the Syrian regime were to blame. The Shaam

Summary

3 – 5

(2 children1 woman1 man)

2–10

2 named, 1 familiy identified

منبج, Manbij, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

A report on August 5th 2016 by local blogger Hathifa al Yaman Abu al Majd claimed that approximately 15 civilians had died in a Coalition strike two weeks earlier, with their bodies still buried under rubble. “American Alliance planes – around 15 days ago – committed a massacre against three families opposite al Fatah mosque near

Summary

2 named, 1 familiy identified

الموصل‎, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

The previously-secret CENTCOM file also noted reports by redacted “prominent anti-ISIL Twitter users” that “civilians are being killed in the bombardment.” With so few details to go on, CENTCOM concluded that there was “insufficient evidence to determine date and time of any specific allegation.”

Summary

Unknown

تل كيف‎, Telkaif, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

Eight civilians including three women were claimed by NINA to have been killed in a coalition airstrike on Telkaif, 20km north of Mosul. A dozen militants also reportedly died in the attack.

Summary

near Ash Sha'fa, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

In an event previously not tracked by Airwars, the Coalition later confirmed the injury of one civilian in an artillery strike near Ash Sha’fa, Syria. This was later confirmed by the Pentagon to be a US-only event. In its June 2019 civilian casualty report, the Coalition noted: “Coalition artillery conducted a strike against a Daesh

Summary

Known belligerent

LOCATION

Raqqa, Syria

In the Amnesty and Airwars’s joint April 2019 report “War in Raqqa: Rhetoric versus Reality”, one civilian was reportedly killed in alleged Coalition artillery strikes in Raqqa. Although Airwars assesses single sourced incidents as “weak”, researchers have assessed this incident “fair” due to the depth of material provided by Amnesty. The report stated that “Mahmud

Summary

1 – 35

(1 man)

تدمر‎, Palmyra, Homs, Syria

LOCATION

A badly wounded Syrian refugee told Buzzfeed that he believed his injuries had been caused by a Coalition airstrike at Palmyra, although no strikes at that location had been reported at the time (the first publicly reported Coalition strikes on Palmyra were on September 9th 2015.) Mohamed Raja, aged 23, lost his right arm and

Summary

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

Cause of injury / death

الموصل‎, West Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

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.

Summary

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

Cause of injury / death

سنجار, Sinjar, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

The monitoring site Iraq Body Count reported seven civilians killed at Sinjar. While these were described as Daesh fighters in reports, IBC classifies all those aged under 18 as children. At least one of those killed in the alleged airstrike was described as aged 15. In its July 2017 casualty report, the Coalition classed the

Summary

1 – 7

(1 child)

Laantabuur or Abdow Dibile, Lower Shabelle, Somalia

LOCATION

Up to four civilians were killed in a US strike in the Lower Shabelle region, international media and investigating NGOs reported from the ground, though US Africa Command claimed that the strike had only killed three “terrorists.” It later again officially denied causing any civilian casualties. Initially, allegations of civilian harm came from a Reuters

Summary

3 – 4

(3–4 men)

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions, Unknown

0–1

Causes of injury / death

3 named, 1 familiy identified

Belligerents reported killed

1–4