April 25, 2019
Open sources, including satellite imagery, indicate that on 2015/05/12 sometime after 1515 AST two buildings in Abs were destroyed, and other buildings damaged, in an airstrike by the Saudi-led Coalition (SLC). Although there were multiple reports of different locations being attacked, it was consistently stated that a prison was one of the targets of this attack. We identified what we believe to be this prison in the report.
April 22, 2019
We identified the location of the alleged strike as the al-Fayush market. Using open sources, including images, videos and satellite imagery, we confirmed the strike took place in a livestock market near to a petrol station and multiple other services, such as a Qat market and restaurant.
December 22, 2017
This article was collaboratively written by the Syrian Archive Team and Bellingcat Investigation Team Location: Atarib (Aleppo governorate, Syria) Claimed targets: Public market and police building Date: 13 November 2017 First airstrike: ~14:07 local time (UTC/GMT plus 2) Second airstrike: ~14:12 local time (UTC/GMT plus 2) Attacks: 3 alleged airstrikes, 6 thermometric bombs Reported killed: 69 killed…
April 18, 2017
Bellingcat exchanged information with Forensic Architecture and Human Rights Watch. Both of which carried out separate investigations into the attack. All multimedia information has been archived by the Syrian Archive. On March 16, 2017, around 18:55 local time, a United States (US) airstrike targeted the Sayidina Omar ibn al-Khattab mosque, where reportedly almost 300 people…
March 16, 2017
This is a developing investigation, which will be updated as soon as there are new findings. We are currently waiting for a reaction from CENTCOM and the Pentagon with regards to our findings. Last update: March 18, 2017, 19:41 UTC. This is an investigation into the bombing by the United States (US) of a mosque…
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