Civilian Casualties

2 – 5

(1–2 children1 woman)

Exact location (via Airwars)

دارة عزة, Darat Izza, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

The Step News Agency said that two civilians died and one was wounded in an alleged Russian airstrike on Darat Izza, while according to Paldf, “a number of people were injured as a result of renewed Russian raids”. @alnateq2 reported that “Mohammed al-Mousa was killed by an explosive device in the city of Darat Izza”.

Summary

1 – 2

Russian Military

مسكنة, Jirah Military Airbase, al Maskana, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

A shepherd boy aged 10, 14 or 15, and named as Muhammad Qasim (or sometimes Mohammed Abd al Kareem), was reportedly killed in a coalition airstrike on a nearby Islamic State military base. An investigation by the Syrian Network for Human Rights later concluded: “Around 2:45 in the afternoon an international alliance warplane raided over

Summary

(1 child)

مدينة ادلب, Wadi Al-Naseem neighborhood close to a market on Al-Bazaar street, Idlib city, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

During the morning of Sunday, December 17, 2023, 15 civilians, including five children and one woman, were reportedly injured by the artillery shelling with contested responsibility allegedly perpetrated by Syrian regime forces and/or Russian military and/or Iranian military in the city of Idlib, in the region of Aleppo, Syria. The incident reportedly occurred in the

Summary

Impact

Russian Military, Syrian Regime, Iranian Military

الرقة‎, Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

In an event previously unknown to Airwars, the Coalition said no civilians were harmed near Raqqa, In it’s April 2017 casualty report the Coalition said: “No Coalition strikes were conducted on that day in the geographic area of the reported civilian casualties”.

Summary

الموصل‎, Kisik Junction, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

An internal post-strike review for CENTCOM of full-motion video revealed a “possible child entering a targeted bunker and then disappearing out of the field of view (FOV) approximately 19 minutes before Strike.” The dynamic strike, conducted by a French Mirage 2000 using a Bu-49 bomb, killed an estimated five enemy fighters. Claims that a child

Summary

(1 child)

تميم الحنوة وسلماسة, Tamim al-Hanwa and Salamasa villages in Tal Hamis countryside, village of Haram Sheikho near in the countryside of the city of Qamishlo in the Al-Jazeera District of Hasaka, Al Hasakah, Syria

LOCATION

Fourteen identified civilians, including two women and six children, were injured as a result of the multiple air and/or drone strikes, including a double-tap strike, allegedly perpetrated by the Turkish military on the evening of Friday, May 31st, 2024, in the villages of Tamim al-Hanwa and Salamasa in the Tel Hamis countryside of Qamishlo in

Summary

Airstrike, Drone Strike

Infrastructure

Healthcare

Impact

14 named, 2 families identified

3–4

الموصل‎, Mosul, Maydan neighborhood, Bab Lagash, Aqaydat, Wadi Hajar, Denden and Tayyaran, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

According to NINA, an intensive airstrike by the Coalition at dawn killed 11 civilians and injured a further four in Mosul. Strikes reportedly hit the neighbourhoods of Maydan, Bab Lagash, Aqaydat, Wadi Hajar, Denden and Tayyaran. The news website Ajyal reported that up to 30 people had died in an airstrike on a juvenile prison

Summary

11 – 15

ورشة لصناعة المفروشات, wood furniture manufacturing facility, west of Idlib, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

In a wood furniture manufacturing facility located in the western outskirts of the Idlib area, Syria, at least one civilian was killed and five others, including a child and an elderly man, were injured in one of the four airstrikes reportedly perpetrated by Russian warplanes shortly before 9:03 AM on Thursday, February 29th, 2024. The

Summary

Consumer Goods, Motorcycle, Truck, Vehicle, Warehouse

2–5

Russian Military

Jameeco Jilyaale near Beled ul Amin, Lower Shabelle, Somalia

LOCATION

The US confirmed it had accompanied Somali troops in a mission that rescued 30 to 32 boys from an al Shabaab indoctrination centre in the Lower Shabelle region. However, during the rescue attempt, fire reportedly from Somali forces reportedly killed four or five children, and a teacher. A later US government FOIA response indicated that

Summary

4 – 6

(4–5 children1 man)

Small arms and light weapons

US Forces, Somali Military Forces

Known belligerents

Suspected target

Al-Shabaab

4–5

خشام, Khusham, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

Three children were reported by a single source as having been killed during an overnight coalition airstrike on a Daesh checkpoint at the town of Kheshan. However local sources said the attack was the work of the Syrian regime. A man named as Abu Mohammed, said to be one of the relatives of the dead,

Summary

(3 children)

US-led Coalition, Syrian Regime

شارع 5، خان يونس, Street 5, Khan Younis, Khan Younis, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On Saturday, August 24, 2024, Mohammed Izzat bo Ouda, a 48-year-old man, was killed when he was shot by alleged Israeli gunfire. Three others were also injured in the incident as the Israeli forces reportedly opened fire on IDP tents on Street 5, west of Khan Younis. Mohammed and the wounded were taken to the

Summary

(1 man)

Small arms and light weapons

الشعفة, Al Shaafa, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

Ali al-Muhammed al-Furaiji and his two wives were killed in the morning of April 15th, when their house was hit by an alleged Coalition airstrike, multiple local sources reported – though there was also a claim that the deaths had been caused by an explosion of an ISIS-planted mine. @alhasensaleem tweeted that “a whole family”

Summary

(2 women1 man)

3 named, 1 familiy identified

US-led Coalition, ISIS

Named victims

الرقة‎, Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

Coalition aircraft allegedly destroyed an “ISIS-owned digger,” killing a man local monitoring group Raqaa is Being Slaughtered Silently described as a civilian driver: “Coalition planes targeted a drilling vehicle belonging to Daesh which is used for digging berms in the area of Tal Al Bayi’a. This led to the burning of the vehicle, and to

Summary

(2 men)

مدرسة الشهداء في مخيم النصيرات, Al Shohadaa school, Al Nuseirat camp, Gaza Strip, North Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

Shortly before 12:27 on October 24, 2024, at least 17 identified civilians, including at least 11 children, three women, and the Dean of the Faculty of Nursing at the Islamic University, were killed and at least 32 civilians were injured in a declared Israeli airstrike on the Al Shohadaa school in the Nuseirat Refugee Camp

Summary

Education, IDP or Refugee Camp, Prayer Space, Religious

(11–13 children3–4 women1–2 men)

17 – 25

32–53

17 named, 3 families identified

Geolocation

Exact location (via Airwars)

هجين, Hajin, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

Sources on the ground indicated that between 12 and 14 civilians, mostly women and children, were killed in an alleged Coalition airstrike on Hajin. All but one sources reported that 12 civilians were killed in the airstrike, according to Step News this number was confirmed by sources loyal to Daesh. Jisr TV was the only

Summary

12 – 24

(2–6 children2–6 women)

الموصل‎, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

A 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,

Summary

(7 children5 women)

near NLZ, Syria, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

In an incident previously unknown to Airwars, one civilian was injured by declared US military live fire exercises near NLZ, Syria on September 4, 2023. In the Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR) Civilian Harm and Mitigation Response Report released on May 31, 2024, the US military stated that “Regrettably, based on

Summary

Known belligerent

Near Ameyra and Timirshe, Noogal, Somalia

LOCATION

A US drone strike intended to target an Islamic State hideout near the remote Ameyra and Timirshe villages in the Golis Mountain region, killed two civilians and injured another, according to multiple local and international media sources. However in April 2020, AFRICOM insisted the targets “were ISIS-Somalia leadership and media operatives.”” At the time of

Summary

Airstrike, Drone Strike

(2 men)

الفلوجة‎, Fallujah, Al Anbar, Iraq

LOCATION

Local sources reported that either government shelling or a warplane from the international Coalition struck civilians betwen noon and 1pm as they were using the Albu Shajal crossing point north of Fallujah, allegedly killing up to 14 non-combatants and injuring 12 more. According to Al Fallujah News there were two strikes at the crossing point,

Summary

11 – 14

(6 children4 women)

near Ruun Nirgood, Middle Shabelle, Somalia

LOCATION

Between 10 and 70 militants, including “key Al-Shabaab ring leaders and militias” were purportedly killed and 30 other al-Shabaab members were injured after airstrikes announced by the Somali government in conjunction with international partners were carried out near Ruun Nirgood, Middle Shabelle on 24 April, 2024. The Somali Information Ministry, referenced by Anadolu Agency, reported

Summary

International Forces (Unknown), Somali Military Forces

Suspected target

Al-Shabaab

10–70

near Buulo Fuulay, Bay, Somalia

LOCATION

Two civilians were killed in a US strike near Buulo Fuulay, according to a pro Al Shabaab outlet. Somali Memo wrote: “More details about the bombings of US warplanes hit the Bay region in southern Somalia on Wednesday night. Drones bombed a scooter with two civilians Saturday night, the killed were forced out of Buhodle

Summary

(2 men)

الموصل‎, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

At least ten civilians were reported killed and 13 or more injured, after a Coalition strike at 8.30am which targeted a Daesh IED facility also reportedly hit a next-door dairy factory in Mosul. According to the local Nineveh Reporters’ Network, the attack “killed all elements of the organization [Daesh] who were inside the booby-trapping plant,

Summary

5 – 13

(1 man)

13–28

دارة عزة, Daret Izza, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

Shortly before 10:19 AM on Wednesday, 27 November 2024, a girl and a man were injured in Daret Izza, west of Aleppo, Syria, by an artillery shelling with contested responsibility allegedly launched by the Syrian regime along with Russian airstrikes during violent clashes between Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham members and the Syrian regime forces. Though the

Summary

1–2

Russian Military, Syrian Regime

12–24

12–24

البوكمال, Al Bukamal, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

Around ten people were killed and an unknown number wounded in alleged Coalition artillery strikes that reportedly targeted Iranian and Lebanese militias in the city of Al Bukamal, Deir Ezzor governorate, on December 25th, 2019, according to local sources. It is unclear if those killed were civilians or belligerents. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

Summary

0 – 3

0–2

7–10

حي المثنى, Mosul, al-Muthanna, al-Masaref, al-Tahrir, and al-Qadisiyah, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

According to single source the National Iraqi News Agency, 12 civilians died and 11 were “severely wounded” in Coalition airstrikes on the neighbourhoods of al-Muthanna, al-Masaref, al-Tahrir, and al-Qadisiyah, north of Mosul. MNN cited Kurdish official Ghyath Surja as saying the Coalition had carried out a targeted strike on a vehicle at al-Muthanna, though did

Summary

(3 children1 woman)

جون- قضاء الشوف, Ghosn Family home, near Pine Forest Hill, Joun, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon

LOCATION

On 12 November 2024, at least 18 civilians from two families were killed when the three-storey Ghosn family home was allegedly struck by an Israeli airstrike; several people were also reported injured. At least one militant was also likely killed in the attack. The Ghosn family home was under Pine Forest Hill, overlooking the Joun

Summary

Agriculture, Factory, Residential

18 – 25

(8 children7 women3 men)

5–12

18 named, 2 families identified

Israeli Military

Named victims

Geolocation

Village

منطقة ‎‎ال عتيق, Al Ateeq area, Shabwa, Yemen

LOCATION

Several sources reported that US airstrikes targeted AQAP militants in Wadi Yashbum, Shabwa province, at dawn on March 2nd 2017. Some local language Twitter sources reported that three areas of the Yashbum Valley had been targeted by US strikes simultaneously. There were some allegations of civilian harm from the wider US campaign in the area,

Summary

Airstrike, Drone Strike

Infrastructure

Prayer Space, Religious, Residential

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)

US Forces

Suspected target

4–8

LOCATION

حماة, Hama, Idlib, Syria

In an incident previously unknown to Airwars, on December 1st 2016 the Coalition said it had concluded an assessment on a possible incident “near Hama, Iraq”. Officials later informed Airwars that the alleged incident in fact took place near Hama, Syria. The incident was reported in the December 2016 Coalition report as: “Feb. 15, 2016,

Summary

0–1