Civilian Casualties

12–24

LOCATION

مَأْرِب, Ma'rib, Yemen

code: USYEM239c
incident_date: 2015-10-03
status: publish
civilian_harm_status: Weak

Summary

Airstrike, Drone Strike

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

Cause of injury / death

شارع الجلاء، بالقرب من مسجد شهاب, Al-Jalaa Street, near the Shehab Mosque, Idlib City, Idlib Governorate, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

code: R4752
incident_date: 2024-12-02
status: publish
civilian_harm_status: Contested

Summary

Car, Mosque, Religious, Vehicle

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

Cause of injury / death

Impact

الباب, Al Bab, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

Turkish artillery or tank shelling reportedly hit a kindergarten in Al Bab, Syria. The ISIS propaganda outlet Al A’amaq reported: “Two dead and ten wounded, including three children, due to Turkish tank bombardment in Al Bab city.” It added that residential areas and the village Al-Qabaseen north of Al Bab were struck. Alrawi tweeted it

Summary

0 – 2

5–10

Turkish Military

منطقة الصوامع, Silos area, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

One civilian male was killed in alleged Coalition airstrikes in Raqqa governorate. Al Ragga Truth and Raqqa News named the victim as 23-year-old Fadi Qaher al Nashef and both alleged that the Coalition was responsible. Sources said that the Coalition bombed the grain silos area. No further details are currently available.

Summary

الباب, Al Bab, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

Between seven and 26 civilians including many women and children were reportedly killed in alleged Turkish airstrikes on Al Bab. Al Bab 24 posted on Facebook that “seven people were killed following Turkish air and artillery bombardment on Al Bab northeast of Aleppo.” The ISIS propaganda outlet Al Raed La Ykazeb Ahlahu initially agreed with

Summary

(12 children3–8 women2–6 men)

7 – 26

حي النجار, Mosul, Al-Najjar, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

Two local sources reported that an entire family was killed and another family was severely injured as a result of airstrikes on their houses in Najjar neighborhood, in West Mosul. Iraqyoon Agency reported that the entire family of Nashwan Salem was killed in airstrikes that hit their house near Saada area, in Najjar neighborhood. It

Summary

(1 woman1 man)

US-led Coalition, Unknown

المسطومة, Al Mastumah, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

One man and his granddaughter died in strikes on the village of Al Mastumah according to local sources – though these were conflicted as to whether this was the work of Russia or the Assad regime, with only one report attributing the incident to Moscow. Shaam News Network reported that “Activists in Idlib province documented

Summary

(1 child1 woman1 man)

7–9

2 named, 1 familiy identified

Raqqah, Tashih, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

In an incident not previously tracked by Airwars, on April 1st 2017 the Coalition said it had concluded an assessment of a self-reported civilian harm claim “near Raqqa, Syria”. According to the Coalition report, “ 110. May 24, 2017, near Raqqah, Syria, via self-report: After a review of available information and strike video it was

Summary

Unknown

سرمين, Sarmin, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

Russian airstrikes killed at least 14 non-combatants according to multiple accounts. The first strike at 1pm hit near a school and a field hospital in the town of Sarmin run by the Syrian-American Medical Society (SAMS.) A secondary strike or ‘double tap – captured on camera – shows an apparently deliberate attack on rescue workers

Summary

14 – 17

(13 men)

28–30

حطين, Huteen, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

At least two people were killed in Coalition raids on Huteen, according to local reports. Shaam News Network reported Coalition raids claimed the lives of 6 civilians and wounded others in two locations: “Shukri Busan station, North Al-Sekka and Mazra’at Hittin” Raqqa is Being Silently Slaughtered reported the death of a man named Yasser al-Kalu

Summary

2 – 5

(2 men)

الموحسن, Muhassan, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

The Shaam News Network reported that several civilians had been killed and wounded in an alleged Russian airstrike on Mohassan in Deir ez-Zor. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that “warplanes” had carried out raids in the area, but neither identified them nor provided casualty figures.

Summary

Russian Military

الحسو, Al Hisso, Al Hassakah, Syria

LOCATION

Al Hassaka Rasd reported that the “international coalition targeted al Hisso village in the southern Al Shadadi countryside and that there was news about deaths and injuries among civilians.” Abdalali reported a Coalition strike on Al Hisso but made no mention of civilian casualties.

Summary

LOCATION

حور, Hor, Aleppo, Syria

One girl died and many others were injured in an alleged Russian airstrike on Hor. The Shaam News Network blamed Russia, but provided no further details. According to Pressbshalmoon, a “little girl” died and “many others” were injured in a Russian raid. A number of other sources also said a child died, but didn’t identify the culprit.

Summary

(1 child)

Russian Military

LOCATION

الرقة, Raqqa, Syria

An August 2017 Amnesty International report documented a civilian casualty incident in Raqqa, in which 9 members of the same family were killed on June 8th, 2017. The neighbour of the family had told the organization’s field researchers that in the early evening, Abdallah Allawi, his wife Muntaha, and their seven sons, aged between three

Summary

(1 woman1 man)

3 named, 1 familiy identified

خشام, Khusham, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

At least two civilians including a girl and a woman died in airstrikes on the town of Khusham. While the majority of the sources allege that this was a Coalition incident, other reports say Russia was responsible. According to Free Deir Ezzor, Russian raids targeting oil fields in Khusham killed two civilians displaced from Qaryatain,

Summary

2 – 20

(1–8 children1 woman)

Unknown, Syrian Regime, US-led Coalition

2 named, 1 familiy identified

الطب الحديث, Al Toubb al Hadith, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

One civilian, Mohamamd al Ismail Al Abd al Dhaher, was killed in an alleged Coalition airstrike on the Al Toubb al Hadith area of Raqqa, according to local sources. Both Q_Alenzy and Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently blamed the Coalition. Other sources reported Coalition airstrikes in the area, with Alquds saying that Coalition jets “destroyed

Summary

برقوم, Barkoum, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

Six or more civilians were reported killed in an airstrike at Barkoum. The Violations Documentation Center (which in English said the attack was by unidentified warplanes, and in Arabic attributed it to the Assad regime) later named the dead. However other sources described the attack as the work of the Russian airforce.

Summary

6 – 8

(3 children2 women1 man)

Unknown, Syrian Regime

6 named, 2 families identified

الرقة‎, Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

A civilian male was reportedly killed as a result of artillery fire supported by Coalition airstrikes in Raqqa, local sources said. All three sources which reported the incident identified the victim as Samir Mohammed al Ali Al Ashayer, who is also known as Abu Mohammed. Both the Palmyra Media Center and Raqqa is Being Slaughtered

Summary

جبل الزاوية, Jabal Al Zawiya, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

Media activist Wassim Al A’dil was one of two civilians reported killed in an airstrike at Jabal al Zawiya. The other has been named by Violations Documentation Center as Mohammad Abd al-Razzaq al-Harami. The pair were reportedly on their way to cover nearby Russian airstrikes when they were caught up in an attack. Shaam News

Summary

(2 men)

المدينة القديمة, Mosul, Old City, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

Fifteen people were reported killed and five more injured in heavy air and artillery strikes on Old Mosul, as Iraqi forces supported by the Coalition continued their push to capture the last ISIL-held neighbourhoods of Mosul. Yaqein – which also reported 10 ISIL carbombs – said that “an aerial and artillery bombardment coincided with the

Summary

US-led Coalition, Iraq Government Forces

LOCATION

عقرب, Akrab, Hama, Syria

The Syrian Network reported that Russian warplanes attacked Akrab, a town under the control of the Free Syrian Army, in a joint attack with the Assad regime. All4Syria also reported that “regime forces tried to storm the town, in southern Hama, after several raids by Russian aviation, resulting in several casualties among civilians.“ Two rockets,

Summary

(1 child)

Unknown, Syrian Regime

طيبة, Al Taybeh, Homs, Syria

LOCATION

One male baby was named as a victim of an airstrike on Raqqa by some local sources. However, this appears to have been a reporting error – with the child in fact likely to have been killed in a Russian, regime or Coalition airstrike on al Taybeh, east of Palmyra. MC Palmyra added that members

Summary

(1 child)

US-led Coalition, Syrian Regime, Russian Military

عندان, Anadan, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

At least three named civilians, including a child, were killed in an alleged Russian airstrike on Anadan and nearby Kafr Hamra. There was some confusion about the incident, with Zaitonmag reporting that seven anti-government fighters were killed along with three civilians: “A Brigade commander working for Ahrar Syria in Aleppo said that seven of his

Summary

3 – 9

(1 child8 men)

10–24

Unknown

9 named, 3 families identified

رطلة, Ratlah, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

Two adult civilians died and three children were wounded in an alleged Coalition airstrike on Ratlah village, according to local media. Al Hassaka Rasd reported that the Coalition struck “the house of Abdul Aziz al-Khamri in Ratlah”. It reported that two civilians died and “three children were slightly injured by the attack”. The victims were

Summary

2 named, 1 familiy identified

ضاحية الكهرباء, Dahiat al Kharaba, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

The Syrian Network for Human Rights reported that one male civilian was killed in an alleged strike by Russian warplanes on the Dahiat al Kharaba region, between the towns of Kafr Naha and Khan al Assal. Al Jazeera, the Step Agency and Zaitonmag also said attacks in the vicinity were the work of Russia. However, VDC

Summary

الرقة‎, Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

Seven civilians died in air or artillery or mortar shelling of Raqqa, according to local media – though it was unclear who was responsible for their deaths. However, Hasaka Rasd also reported that mortars fell on Raqqa neighbourhoods on this day, meaning that these deaths may have been caused by SDF actions, for although Airwars

Summary

(1 child1 woman)

US-led Coalition, Syrian Democratic Forces

6 named

خان شيخون, Khan Shaykhun, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

According to reports two civilians – a man and a woman – died in a Russian airstrike at Khan Shaykhun, with other victims left in critical condition. SNN News described the attack as “a terrible massacre of civilians,” with footage showing a devastated civilian neighbourhood. And Al Jazeera aired frantic scenes as White Helmets tried

Summary

(1 woman1 man)

2 named

المجاوده, Majawdeh, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

At least one civilian was killed and a number of others were injured following airstrikes on Majawdeh, roughly 85km southeast of Deir Ezzor. However responsibility was contested. The victim was identified by a number of sources, which also reported that his wife and daughter were injured. The Syrian Human Rights Committee reported that the wife

Summary

1 – 2

US-led Coalition, Syrian Regime, Russian Military