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With claim and counterclaim over civilian deaths in Gaza, vital stories are being lost or ignored.
Today we release the first of our casualty records - preserving the voices of civilians to build a permanent archive of each life lost.
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Two weeks ago, Israeli strikes hit the densely populated Jabalia camp in Gaza.
We identified at least 126 civilians killed in the strike, including 116 full or partial names - the most named victims we have ever monitored in a single event.
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Airwars tracked & mapped every single Coalition anti-ISIS air & artillery strike (all 32,000) in Iraq & Syria from 2014 to 2018. That ended December 16th when the US-led alliance stopped saying where & when it bombs. For the sake of transparency,
@CJTFOIR
should reverse decision.
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A new Airwars visual investigation has found that a single Russian cluster munition in Ukraine likely caused lethal damage spanning 350 metres.
See the video here:
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Almost every named victim we found died along with at least one other family member.
This includes the Rayan family. Abdel Rayan held up a list to Reuters listing the names of his 15 family members killed in Jabalia that day.
We have identified and recorded each one.
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"I am banned as well."
Iraq's ambassador to the US from 2013-16 says Baghdad embassy has confirmed he too is banned
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Can you work out why
@TeamYouTube
has banned these three videos? We can't. Of 100s we have archived since 2014, these 3 blocked this weeek
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There are likely thousands of recent historical events in which the US and its close allies killed civilians - their deaths then officially denied. It shouldn’t need multiple media investigations to have DoD properly review and identify civilian harm.
Without the NYT's deep investigation into the U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan that killed ten people from the same family it's unlikely we would have seen this admission by the Pentagon today. The entire strike was deemed a "tragic mistake." The man targeted posed no threat.
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A year ago, Russia was first accused of using the cheap Iranian Shahed drone in Ukraine.
We have documented every attack since.
Read our new immersive investigation in partnership with
@derspiegel
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On October 13th, a group of seven journalists in Lebanon was struck twice in 37 seconds.
In conjunction with
@AFP
, Airwars conducted an in-depth visual investigation into the attack.
The evidence suggests Israeli tank fire caused the harm.
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Thread: President Trump has today revoked a 32-month old requirement for DoD and other US agencies to report on strikes and civilian harm in areas outside active hostilities (eg Yemen, Pakistan). There's no doubt this is a major transparency blow.
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While American strikes on the Houthi militia may be new, the US bombing of Yemen is not.
The United States has likely conducted strikes in the country every year since 2009, our research shows. The impact on civilians is often fatal.
A brief thread
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As we wait for formal announcements on the defeat of ISIS, some key stats:
- This was a major conflict, at 1,688 days lasting 3 months longer than WW1 and involving almost 80 countries in the broader campaign; 14 kinetic international allies; and local forces in Iraq and Syria.
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We have now published our 100th assessment of civilian harm in the Gaza Strip, an attack on the Al-Taj tower block on Oct 25th.
We found reports of at least 101 civilians killed.
The incident received little international coverage.
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Since October 7th, Airwars has been geolocating every allegation of civilian harm from airstrikes in Gaza.
So far, we’ve published 250 geolocated incidents in our archive - with new cases published each week.
🧵Here are a handful of exact locations showcasing our work so far:
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Silence of Western nations on the horrors of Mosul and Raqqa - much caused by their own or allies' bombs - is an outrage that shames us all
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More bombs dropped by Coalition in March than at any time in war against ISIL: and a record number of civilians died
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For 12 months, Airwars &
@VICENews
have been investigating the Islamic State's most daring attack in years - a prison break in Syria.
This immersive article takes you inside the assault - and the US failures that allowed it to happen.
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In collaboration with
@thetimes
we provide a window into the scale of loss in Gaza since October.
To date we have identified hundreds of families killed together in single strikes.
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Airwars and ARES have created a new tool to help journalists, researchers and the public better understand explosive weapons and their impact.
Sign up for our online launch next week:
Explainer video:
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Tinderbox doesn't begin to describe Syria right now:
Regime, Iran and Russia attacking Idlib and Ghouta
US, France, UK, and Netherlands still striking ISIS
Syria targeting Israeli aircraft. Israel downing Iranian drones
Turkey attacking Kurdish areas
US attacking regime forces
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US Senator
@ChrisMurphyCT
on controversial arms sales: “I’ve got a huge defense manufacturing footprint in Connecticut, but I will never, ever advocate for an arms sale that ends up in civilians being killed just because it makes money for my state.”
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ICYMI: Airwars reviewed hundreds of civilian harm allegations to assess how safe the 'safe zone' in southern Gaza was for civilians.
Answer: Not at all
By
@sanjanamv
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Our new interactive dataset details all reported civilian harm in the Battle of Kharkiv.
It is one of the most comprehensive public resources of the human cost of the war in Ukraine to date.
A brief thread:
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Blocks on transparency and accountability for harm are always a poor choice - with those worst served being the civilians caught in conflict violence. They deserve to know why they or their loved ones were harmed, and by whom. Without that knowledge, reconciliation is impossible.
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A dashcam video captured the moment cluster munitions exploded on a road just outside the hospital.
From this we were able to visually identify and map 9 impacts.
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The US has released 1,300 case files of civilian harm allegations from the war in Iraq and Syria.
The UK won't release even one.
Next Wednesday Airwars is taking the UK Government to tribunal to force the MoD to be transparent with the British public.
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New research from Airwars finds that at least 22,679 civilians - and as many as 48,308 - have likely been directly killed by US strikes in the ‘Forever Wars.’
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Airwars has created an interactive map of population density in Ukraine as a tool for researchers, journalists and those seeking to understand the civilian impact of Russia's ongoing invasion.
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It is shameful that the United States has chosen to apply sanctions to both the Chief Prosecutor and Director of Jurisdiction of
@IntlCrimCourt
- a blatant attempt by
@SecPompeo
both to intimidate the ICC, and to undermine the international rule of law.
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A Pantsir air defence system, originally purchased by the UAE from Russia, has been flown into a US base in Germany after being captured in Libya, according to The Times
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@trbrtc
@EliotHiggins
The map is available here and was designed as a tool to help others document the war's civilian impact.
Any researchers with specific questions please reach out - our DMs are open
@SpencerGuard
@N_Waters89
@RALee85
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Russia waters down threat to Coalition aircraft. Now says will 'escort'. A few minutes ago said would be tracked by Russian SAMs as targets
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@damdamlefau
Thanks for raising. Hawija was indeed a high casualty event, though we were only able to identify six names out of the 70 civilians reported killed at the time.
You can find our full assessment here:
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Imagine a bomb hits your street. As you rush to escape the area you snap a few pictures and post them on social media.
The images are shared online extensively, but would not contain any metadata.
The US military might not consider them evidence.
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This devastating investigation by
@David_Philipps
and the
@nytimes
reveals that the US military knew a strike killed dozens of civilians and was a possible war crime. Yet officials chose, again and again, to hide or ignore the truth
Few highlights below
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August was the worst ever month for reported and likely civilian deaths from Coalition actions in Syria. Most died at Raqqa.
#hardfacts
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During Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, its use of cluster munitions has been widely documented - thanks in large part to online investigators such as
@EliotHiggins
and
@JakeGodin
.
We wanted to illustrate just how widespread the damage of a single cluster bomb can be.
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How our Ukraine population density tool works
If you know a strike (pic 1) occurred at 49.986471, 36.227401 put the coordinates into our map
A blue marker appears (pic 2)
Zoom in & see how many civilians lived in that square km (pic 3 - 9,712 in this case)
@trbrtc
@EliotHiggins
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Yesterday the US government finally published nearly two years of classified Afghanistan airstrike data.
It total it declared nearly 800 previously classified strikes in the chaotic final years of the war
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Libya: Munition fragments found at Tripoli 'appear to be from LJ-7 missiles', which are carried by Chinese-made Wing Loong armed drones. The only belligerent known to use these drones in Libya is the United Arab Emirates, which supports rebel LNA forces.
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The US military claimed to have killed a top Al-Qaeda leader in Syria.
Investigation by former Airwars investigator
@imogen_piper
@mmkelly22
and others reveals the man was actually a farmer and father of 10.
Now the military is "no longer confident".
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"The journalists were clearly identified and remained in an open location throughout, with a clear line of sight to an Israeli military base for more than an hour before the first strike."
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Today marks the 6th anniversary of Russia’s military intervention in Syria.
We’ve tracked over 4,600 alleged civilian harm events attributed to Russia, with up to 23,936 civilians locally allegedly killed.
Moscow is yet to concede a single death.
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The Open Source Munitions Portal is now live
We would love to hear your feedback and ways the tool can be more useful to journalists, researchers and others in the coming years
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For years, Airwars asked the UK government to reveal basic details of the one civilian it accepts killing in 8 years of bombing Iraq and Syria. It refused.
Today we announce we are taking the government to a tribunal.
The British public deserves answers.
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Airwars "parsed every report of harm to civilians south of Wadi Gaza in the first week after Israel told civilians to go there.
In total
@sanjanamv
gathered 127 allegations of civilian harm between Oct. 14 and Oct. 21."
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The report digs deep into why the US media rarely covered civilian casualties from US-led strikes in Iraq and Syria. A contrast eg with Ukraine at present.
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Today marks the 5th anniversary of the international war against ISIS. Ferocious air and artillery strikes in support of local ground forces have seen the terror group almost defeated. But what of the cost to Iraqi and Syrian civilians?
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'A preliminary war crimes assessment, conducted on behalf of 45 members of
@OSCE
, concluded that Russia had engaged in “a clear pattern” of war crimes, targeting, for example, hospitals, schools and places of shelter during the seven weeks of fighting.'
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Congress has also taken a more active cross-party interest in the protection of civilians in recent months, for example mandating the appointment of a key civilian at the Pentagon, and requiring more transparency:
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Ahead of the 20th anniversary of the start of the Forever Wars, Airwars tried to answer one simple question - how many civilians have US strikes killed in 20 years?
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Of those 34,000 US-led air and artillery strikes, some 14,500 were in Iraq and 19,500 in Syria. Many towns and cities have been left in ruins, part of the price for driving ISIS out of a territory once as large as the United Kingdom.
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For months our amazing researchers, analysts, assessors and geolocators have been painstakingly mapping every known locally reported air and artillery strike in Libya since 2012. Check out our new interactive map - in Arabic and English - of 3,200 events.
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We are absolutely delighted to announce that Emily Tripp will be our new Director at Airwars.
@Emily_4319
will be succeeding our cofounder
@chrisjwoods
, who steps down this summer after almost eight years at the helm.
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At least a further six hit the hospital's playgrounds.
One civilian was reportedly killed while waiting to donate blood with his family. At least three others were injured. Hundreds of sick children took refuge in the hospital’s bomb shelters.
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A grim year for non-combatants, with at least 3,900 killed.
Confirmed and likely civilian deaths from Coalition anti-ISIS actions across Iraq and Syria were up by 215% in 2017, as we report in our new annual assessment
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We've tracked 1,043 alleged Coalition civilian casualty events since Donald Trump took office 6 months ago. 30 months of Obama saw 855 cases
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Some news! For our deep mapping and investigation of civilian harm in Gaza and Israel in May 2021, Airwars' amazing researchers, analysts and investigators are finalists in this year's
#AmnestyMediaAwards
(Best Use of Digital Media category)
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Our minimum estimate of civilians killed by the US-led Coalition in anti-ISIS actions since 2014 now stands at 6,047 to 9,210. Around 65% of those deaths occurred in 2017.
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Ukraine: Latest civilian harm estimates from UN's
@LizThrossell
(significantly below UKR govt estimates):
At least 136 civilians killed, including 13 children.
400 injured since Russia invaded.
253 of tracked casualties (47%) in Donetsk and Lugansk regions in eastern Ukraine.
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We're launching our Open Source Munitions Portal, with
@Arms_Research
today at King's College London. We'll hear from
@joedyke
@julnueno
@TypeFiftySix
@trbrtc
&
@MeAndVan
about how this portal came to be, and what it can be used for.
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CENTCOM won't publish its inquiry into Al Jinah strike in Syria, and press briefing was closed. So here's transcript
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Pentagon just chose 4pm on day of the US election results to admit 64 new civilian deaths in 24 casualty events in Iraq & Syria. More soon
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For 7 years Airwars has tracked the civilian toll of Russian actions in Syria.
The brutal tactics - starving rebel areas, targeting civilians and bombing markets - are being repeated in Ukraine
With
@guardiannews
we outline "The Syria Playbook"
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Airwars is thrilled to be nominated three times for our investigative work at the
@AmnestyUK
Media Awards.
A brief thread:
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For our 8,0000th tweet, a nod to the monitors who track civilian harm day in, day out. Please follow:
@snhr
@VDC_Syria
@Raqqa_SL
@syriahr
@SyriaCivilDef
@iraqbodycount
@MosulEye
@UNIraq
@UNSMILibya
@UNAMAnews
@UNCoISyria
@ICRC
@HRW
@amnesty
@CivCenter
@everycasualty
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Your Sunday
#LongRead
: A year of Russia's use of the Iranian Shahed drone in Ukraine.
Featuring analysis from
@sambendett
,
@annaborsh
,
@conflictarm
,
@ruslantrad
,
@plichta_marcel
,
@fab_hinz
and others.
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7) States claiming to have killed 0 civilians in Iraq/ Syria
UK
Russia
France
Belgium,
Dutch
Denmark
Canada
Australia
Turkey
KSA
UAE
Jordan
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As Airwars we submitted evidence to General Garrett's review into allegations of a massacre of civilians by a US airstrike in Baghuz, Syria
We are deeply concerned by the Executive Summary and request more information on why the allegations were rejected
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What happens when the airstrikes fall silent? Powerful work by Airwars investigator
@samueloakford
for
@thedailybeast
on Raqqa's forgotten dead - and America's disinterest in knowing the true toll
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The UK's
@DefenceHQ
says it can precisely determine that it's killed 4,013 ISIS fighters in Iraq and Syria since 2014. This is the same MoD which says it's impossible properly to determine civilian harm from its actions, and admits only 1 civilian death:
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After the US admitted killing up to 10 civilians in an August 29th strike in Kabul here is a thread of just five more deadly strikes the US military should apologise for:
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Yemen: US accountability for civilian deaths peaked 12 days into Donald Trump's presidency - and has been declining ever since. Yet both US strikes and civilian casualties in Yemen majorly spiked under Trump.
Read our new report, 'Eroding Transparency'.
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Between the first US airstrike on ISIS in Syria in September 2014 and today's troop pullout announcement, our monitors tracked 2,061 events locally alleging more than 13,500 civilian deaths from Coalition actions. Our own minimum estimate is 4,880 killed:
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Russia reports carrying out 39,000 airstrikes in Syria since 2015. That's 10,000 more strikes than the US-led Coalition against ISIS in both Iraq and Syria, in a campaign which began 13 months earlier.
Local monitors say at least 7,000 civilians have also died in Russian actions
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NEW: It's taken the Coalition 588 days to admit that an 'ISIL HQ' it bombed in Sept 2015 was actually a family home
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Six children and 5 women have been killed during a US action in Idlib, Syria according to the White Helmets. The Pentagon describes the attack as a "success."
Where are the lessons learned from Baghuz, Kabul and other recent US killings of civilians?
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Denmark's defence ministry said it would launch a review after an investigation by Airwars,
@Altingetdk
and
@guardian
uncovered evidence showing its air force participated in airstrikes on Libya that killed 14 civilians in 2011.
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Our minimum estimate of civilians likely killed by Coalition since 2014 is now 5,117 - with 55% of deaths occuring under Trump's leadership
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We have now identified more than a hundred named victims within the more than 20 incidents now archived on our website.
This is less than 5% of the total number of monitored incidents we have yet to fully assess.
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Our new Ukraine research team documented and geolocated 200 separate civilian harm incidents across Kharkiv oblast in the 79-day battle period, which ended a year ago this week.
This research brief outlines our key findings.
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Kurdistan/ Iraq: Terrifying video shows children at play, as a reported Turkish strike on Kuna Masi falls within metres.
Is this okay with you?
@masrour_barzani
@qubadjt
@jensstoltenberg
this is my brother playing with my nephew when a Turkish bomb drops 20 meters away from them in Kuna Masi.
#TwitterKurds
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After years of advocacy by Airwars and others, the US DoD released its new landmark Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response policy.
We’ll be publishing a full analysis in the new year - but here are our 10 initial standouts for tracking + assessments.
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Militaries have a big problem when it comes to understanding the civilian casualties which result from their actions - particularly in campaigns dominated by airpower. Key to solving this is listening to affected communities themselves.
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The struggle for Mosul lasted far longer than Stalingrad in WW2. ISIS is vanquished - but the price is appalling
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“We have massively destroyed the infrastructure and given the population a disgusting image of what may be a Western-style liberation leaving behind the seeds of an imminent resurgence"
Brutal attack on Coalition's Syria tactics by French artillery colonel
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However today's Trump executive order appears to leave all other elements of the original Obama-era ExOrd 13732 intact - including key areas relating to casualty mitigation, and the reporting of civilian harm from the regular battlefield (extract below):
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Tomorrow morning, Airwars is taking the UK government to tribunal over its refusal to release even basic details about its civilian harm processes.
Journalists interested in attending get in touch.
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Our assessment into yesterday's US raid in Syria, during which the Islamic State leader and at least 9 civilians died, has now been updated with an additional 30 sources and statements.
Read it here:
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A major new Airwars study examines civilian harm from Israeli strikes in Gaza and Syria. The differences are stark.
During 11 days in May, IDF strikes in Gaza likely killed up to 10x more civilians than the country's eight-year bombing campaign in Syria.
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Similar work, but on a larger scale, is being done by Airwars.
As part of its work investigating civilian deaths, it has matched names of the dead on the health ministry list with areas that have been bombed.
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Ukraine: Latest
@UNHumanRightsUA
report estimates at least 564 civilians killed since Russia's Feb 24th invasion - 41 of them children.
Casualty weighting remains heavily towards Donetsk and Luhansk - until recently the focus of UN monitoring efforts.
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