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Monitoring and assessing civilian harm from international military actions in Iraq, Syria and Libya. Archiving war reports. And counting the numbers.

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    Oct 24

    From today, our weekly reports focus on both Russian and Coalition actions in Syria. Oct 15-21: While we again saw no local claims of harm from Russian strikes, we tracked 4 major alleged Coalition events, reportedly killing between 33 and 151 civilians:

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  2. Nov 2

    For the first time since 2014 according to , more civilians were killed in the last month in Syria by US-led Coalition forces (43) than by any other named party to the conflict - including the Assad regime:

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    Oct 31

    A year after the Syrian city of Raqqa's alleged liberation from ISIS, conditions remain rife for breeding "radicalization." But President Trump's "only plan for Raqqa appears to be to exacerbate those unstable conditions,” writes Laila Ujayli .

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  4. Nov 2

    Overnight, issued a statement confirming its SDF partners have paused an offensive against ISIS remnants "in response to cross border attacks by Turkey against SDF positions in Northern Syria." It urged "all parties to show restraint to de-escalate the current situation"

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  5. Nov 2

    Sara Rifaat has been named by as a child fatality of Turkish shellling of Kurdish-held areas in northern Syria, in a village near Tal Abyad:

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    Nov 1

    On Monday the WH press sec repeated Trump's claim that he defeated ISIS. There are more than 200 recent ISIS attacks from just one region of Iraq logged in this intel report on my desk:

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  7. Nov 1

    Syria: Once again our researchers tracked no local civilian harm claims against Russian forces as the Idlib ceasefire holds. But as notes, Coalition strikes continue at Hajin - with between 8 and 41 civilians alleged killed in the last week:

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    Oct 31

    Geir Pedersen of Norway named as the new UN Special Envoy for Syria

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  9. Oct 31

    Syria: The US-led Coalition's proxies the SDF have 'temporarily halted' their offensive against ISIS in the Hajin pocket - blaming not their recent heavy losses, but Turkish actions to the north:

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  10. Oct 31

    For Oct 15th-28th, the UK reports 8 strikes in Syria, mainly around Abu Kamal. Reported targets included ISIS observation posts and an IED facility. There was also 1 strike in Iraq, on a group of caves in a hillside 30 miles north-west of Kirkuk.

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  11. Oct 31

    Remarkable work by for its new Russian airstrikes data project - highlighting more than 1,400 civilian-related events in Syria from 2015 to the present with associated videos. A major research addition:

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    Oct 31

    Today Syrian Archive published a new documenting alleged Russian attacks on Syrian civilians and civilian infrastucture

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  13. Oct 31

    Our new Netherlands-based advocacy and research officer joined us this week - and we're delighted to have her on the team. Maike's previous role was with in Myanmar - and she brings a wealth of experience to the Airwars project.

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  14. Oct 31

    Netherlands reports heavy week of anti-ISIS airstrikes. For October 24th-31st, Dutch MoD says its F-16s supported ground troops in 9 missions. Weapons deployed in 4: near Abu Kamal in Syria and near Mosul, Iraq. Targets were ISIS warehouses and vehicles:

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    Oct 30

    Rising tempo: The US-led Coalition reports more than 180 airstrikes in the past week, almost all against ISIS remnants in eastern Syria. That's more strikes than conducted for all of July and August combined.

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    Oct 26

    In other words, absence of proof is not proof of absence. Comprehensive, standardised, verifiable must be embedded within all military operations.

    With key systemic flaws in US-led Coalition civilian harm monitoring - and challenges-with proxy admissions - it’s unhelpful for to claim ‘zero civilian casualties in its monthly report, we tell :
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  17. Oct 26

    With key systemic flaws in US-led Coalition civilian harm monitoring - and challenges-with proxy admissions - it’s unhelpful for to claim ‘zero civilian casualties in its monthly report, we tell :

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  18. Oct 26

    Full report is here

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  19. Oct 26

    France report that between Oct 17th-23rd, the three CAESAR guns of Task Force Wagram conducted 17 firing missions, from Iraqi territory. Aircraft conducted 18 sorties and eight strikes north of Abu Kamal, Syria - four times the number of strikes carried out in the previous week.

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  20. Oct 26

    As the graph by the local monitor shows, the air strikes in Raqqa destroyed 80% of the city, including 60 bridges,90 schools, and the main hospital.

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