Civilian Casualties

الباغوز, Al Baghouz, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

According to several local sources, the “American coalition” bombed the town of Al-Baghouz with several airstrikes, killing two civilians and causing significant material damage. No additional details are known at this time. In its January 2021 monthly civilian casualty report, the US-led Coalition determined this event to be ‘non credible’, asserting: “The allegation provided insufficient detail

Summary

شقرة, Shaqra, Abyan, Yemen

LOCATION

On May 17th 2012, at an Al Qaeda checkpoint in the town of Shaqra in the Abyan Province, a suspected US drone-fired missile or Yemeni air strike hit two cars killing between three and eight alleged Al Qaeda militants and up to two civilians, in addition to wounding others, according to local officials and residents,

Summary

Car, Vehicle

0 – 2

0–2

US Forces, Yemeni Air Force

3–8

0–2

تل الجاير, Tall al-Jayer, Al Hassakah, Syria

LOCATION

A young civilian non-combatant named as Khuder Mohammad Al Assawad was reported by VDC as having died “Due to coalition air force’s shelling of a civilian car in Tel al-Jayer village.” Zaman al Wasl put the death toll higher, noting that “two civilians died as a result of a strike carried out by international Coalition

Summary

1 – 2

(1 man)

المحفد, Mahfad, Abyan, Yemen

LOCATION

On July 28th 2012 alleged Yemeni or US fighter jets bombed two suspected Al Qaeda hideouts in the Mahfad district of the Abyan Province with an unknown number of casualties as reported by Xinhua news who got their information from a local security official and a local resident. The security official quoted by Xinhua news

Summary

US Forces, Yemeni Air Force

معسكر الغزلاني, Mosul, Ghazlani, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

A single source, Yaqen, claimed that 40 civilians were killed and injured in Coalition airstrikes on Mosul. According to the local news group, “A source said that ‘the bombing targeted areas of the Ghazlai camp project as well as the University of Mosul, and the shelling was followed by another bombing which targeted the same

Summary

10 – 40

10–30

الشيخ بحر, Sheikh Bahar, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

Civilians were injured as a result of alleged Russian airstrikes on Sheikh Bahar, Idlib on August 30th 2020. @baladinetwork reported: “#Baladi: Civilians were wounded by the bombing of Russian warplanes targeting a camp for the displaced near Sheikh Bahr in the northern countryside of Idlib #Syria”. The strike took place in the early hours of

Summary

Russian Military

كفرنوران, Kafarnouran, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

A middle-aged male, reported by most sources to be a civilian, was killed by alleged Russian, or Syrian regime shelling of the town of Kafr Nouran, in the western countryside of Aleppo on July 4, 2023. Baladi News reported that Anas Barakat was killed instantly in the village of Kafr Nouran as a result of

Summary

0 – 1

(0–1 men)

Russian Military, Syrian Regime

0–1

منبج, Manbij, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

One civilian was killed and 10 others injured following an alleged Coalition airstrike on a transport bus in the Manbij countryside, according to local sources. Shaam News reported: “Battles are still raging between the SDF and IS in which people were killed on both sides amidst intense coalition raids on the eastern and southern entrances

Summary

قرية الجات, Al Jat village, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

Two civilians were injured in alleged Turkish drone strikes on Al-Jat village on March 15, 2022. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a drone struck Al-Jat village in the northeast of Manbij city with several bombs, injuring two civilians. A Facebook post from Hawar News quoted the media center of the Manbij Military

Summary

Turkish Military

وصاب العالي, Wessab al Ali District, Dhamar, Yemen

LOCATION

Up to four civilians were killed in an alleged U.S drone strike in Wessab al Ali on the 17th of April 2013. However there is some discrepancy in earlier reports which alleged all killed were militants. A suspected Al Qaeda leader Hamid al Radami (aka Hammed al Masea Meftah, Hamed Radman, Hamid Radman al Manea,

Summary

Car, Residential, Vehicle

0 – 4

(0–4 men)

0–5

منبج, Manbij, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

In a second alleged Coalition civilian casualty event in Manbij for July 11th, up to three civilians were reported killed.

Summary

2 – 3

(1 woman1 man)

مديرية الوضيع, Wadi’a district , Abyan, Yemen

LOCATION

Initial reports of a US or Yemeni bombing raid upon a police station in Wadi’a district on July 14, 2011 may have resulted in as many as fifty people killed, with as many as thirty civilians among the deceased. Militants were also killed and injured, though there was huge variation in the numbers reported, which

Summary

Emergency Services, Police Station

8 – 30

US Forces, Yemeni Air Force

6–50

10–12

خب و الشعف، الجوف‎, Khabb wa ash Sha’af District, Al-Jawf, Yemen

LOCATION

Between two and seven people, including one child and multiple Al Qaeda militants, were killed and another child was injured in an alleged US drone strike that launched four to five missiles hitting a vehicle in Al Mahashma or Khabb wa ash Sha’af in Al-Jawf Province around noon on June 9th, 2013. The lowest death

Summary

Agriculture, Car, Vehicle

(1 child)

1–6

منبج, Manbij, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

Five or more civilians including three women were reported killed in an alleged Coalition strike in the al Rabita street area of Manbij town, scene of fierce ground clashes between ISIL occupiers and assaulting SDF forces. According to al Tokhar al Kabil, “members of the Karissli family have been martyred. They are Firyal Karissli and

Summary

5 – 7

(3 women1 man)

4 named, 1 familiy identified

المعجلة, Al Majala, Abyan, Yemen

LOCATION

At least forty-seven civilians, including at least twenty-two children and twelve women, were reportedly killed after a US cruise-missile strike targeted an alleged AQAP training camp on the edge of Al-Majala village, Mahfad district of Abyan governorate, at around 6 AM on December 17th 2009. This was the first known strike in Yemen approved by

Summary

Airstrike and/or Artillery

(22–23 children12–17 women11–19 men)

47 – 64

23–88

Known belligerent

Known target

62 named, 11 families identified

Village

6–24

عامودا, Qamishlo-Amuda road, Al Hassakah, Syria

LOCATION

Between two and eight civilians were injured by alleged Turkish drone strikes on Ali Faro Road between Qamishlo and Amuda on September 17, 2023. Up to four militants were killed and three others were injured in the original strike, while the civilians were injured in a double tap strike as they tried to help the

Summary

2–8

Turkish Military

YPG/SDF

2–4

تل عفر, Tall Afar, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

Between two and seven civilians including women and children died – and five were injured – in an alleged Coalition airstrike on the Tel Al Shaeer and Aski Mosul areas in Tal Afar, west of Mosul, according to local sources. Yaqein reported that the Coalition carried out a strike that “targeted the villages of Tel

Summary

2 – 7

(2 children1 woman)

قرية ام القرى, Um Al Qura village, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

Between one and two civilians were injured in alleged Turkish shelling of the village of Um Al Qura on June 3, 2022. According to North Press Agency, a displaced person from the village of Afraz was injured when Turkish forces bombed the village of Um Al Qura. The injured man’s house was damaged and the

Summary

1–2

تل الهوى, Tal Al Hawa , Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On 15th October, 2023, Dr. Omar Saleh Farwana (Farwaneh), his wife Umm Saleh Farwana, his children and grandchildren were all reported killed as a result of an alleged Israeli airstrike. They were in their home in Tal al-Hawa neighborhood, southwest of Gaza City. The attack happened in early morning hours when members of the large

Summary

14 – 15

(8 children4 women)

Impact

Israeli Military

16 named, 1 familiy identified

Names matched with MoH IDs

Neighbourhood/area

الشعفة, Al Sha'afa, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

Alleged Coalition airstrikes on a house and vehicles killed at least four and as many as nine civilians, according to local sources – though reports give conflicting accounts on the combat status of some of those killed. Deir Ezzor 24 reported that Coalition planes targeted a house in al Sha’afa village, leading to the “death

Summary

4 – 9

(1 child)

5 named, 2 families identified

زنجبار‎, Zinjibar, Abyan, Yemen

LOCATION

Up to five people, allegedly members of Al Qaeda, were killed in an alleged US drone strike or naval shelling on an extremist site in Bagdar neighborhood in the city of Zinjibar, the capital of Abyan province in southern Yemen on the evening of December 22nd, 2011 according to local sources and news outlets. One

Summary

Airstrike, Drone Strike, Naval bombardment

منزل لعائلة الدوس في حي الزيتون جنوب مدينة غزة, home of the Al-Dous family in Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, south of Gaza City., Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

code: ISPT0004
incident_date: 2023-10-07
status: publish
civilian_harm_status: Fair

Summary

(7 children3 women5 men)

Israeli Military

15 named, 1 familiy identified

Names matched with MoH IDs

Neighbourhood/area

بعشيقة‎, Bashiqa, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

An Iraq-based journalist told Airwars he had been informed by a peshmerga contact of four civilian deaths near Bashiqa. According to the reporter, A peshmerga called me and said he saw three wounded and four were crushed to death when their house was hit by either a missile or a bomb. Anadolu reported a military

Summary

جعار, Ja'ar, Abyan, Yemen

LOCATION

In a third incident occurring on the 14th of May 2012, two children were wounded by alleged Yemeni warplane strike in Ja’ar in Abyan Province. A military official told AP that a warplane missed its target and accidentally struck civilians, leaving two children wounded. AP was the only source to report on this incident, and

Summary

Yemeni Air Force

محيط شارع الصناعة, Vicinity of Al Sinaa Street, Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On November 8, 2023, two brothers – Muhammad Azmi al Rayees and engineer Muayyad Azmi al Rayees, as well as their cousin Fares Faza al Rayees, were killed by an alleged Israeli airstrike while trying to recover the body of their brother Dr. Maisara Al Rayees from the rubble of the Al Rayees family house in

Summary

(2 men)

Israeli Military

3 named, 1 familiy identified

Nearby landmark

خنيز السلمان, Khaniz al Salman, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

The Step News Agency, reported “international coalition planes targeted at noon today, Wednesday 9th of November, the village of Khaniz in the northern Raqqa countryside. There’s news about civilian casualties and a new massacre.” Step went on to add that “coalition aircraft also launched an air raid targeting the IS security perimeter in the city

Summary

كفرتعال, Kafr Taal, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

Two children were killed and up to two others were injured in artillery shelling allegedly carried out by Russian forces, the Syrian regime, or the Syrian Democratic Forces. The Syrian Civil Defense tweeted (@SyriaCivilDefe) that two children, Youssef and Abdul Baset Jadoua, were killed and the father of Youssef, named Mustafa Jamil Jadoua, and Ahmed

Summary

(2 children)

1–2

Russian Military, YPG, Syrian Regime

4 named, 1 familiy identified

قرب مسجد عبد الله بن رواحة, Vicinity of Abdullah bin Rawaha mosque, Khan Younis, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

Injuries were reported after an alleged Israeli airstrike on a residence in the Ma’an area, southeast of Khan Younis, on October 11th, 2023. Though the number of individuals injured was not confirmed by sources, a post on Facebook reported them to be “several”, which has therefore been quantified as 2 per Airwars methodology. The house

Summary

تل عفر, Tall Afar, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

At least 15 civilians were killed and 33 injured by either Coalition or Iraqi airstrikes, according to local sources. The Coalition later denied any role in the incident. Al Jazeera cited local medical sources and reported that 15 civilians were killed and 33 others injured by Iraqi Air Force and Coalition airstrikes in Tal Afar.

Summary