List of attacks on civilians attributed to United States government forces

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The following is a partial list of attacks on civilians attributed to armed groups under the control of the United States government, including the Army, Navy, Air Force, and North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces under U.S. control. The items on the list are sites widely (though not in all cases universally) considered to be of a civilian nature that were directly (though in some cases mistakenly) targeted, and do not include errant bombs or other collateral damage resulting from imprecise attacks on military targets.

List of Attacks[]

Attack Location Date Dead Injured Perpetrators Refs
Iran Air Flight 655 Iranian airspace, Persian Gulf 1988-07-03 290 0 USS Vincennes (CG-49) [1]
Infant formula production plant Abu Ghraib, Iraq 1991-01-21 [2]
Amiriyah shelter bombing Amiriyah, Iraq 1991-02-13 408 [2]
Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory Khartoum, Sudan 1998-08-20 1 11 [2]
Grdelica train bombing Grdelica, Serbia 1999-04-12 14 F-15E fighter jet [2]
Radio Television of Serbia Belgrade, Serbia 1999-04-23 16 [2]
Chinese embassy Belgrade, Serbia 1999-05-07 3 20 [2]
Red Cross complex Kabul, Afghanistan 2001-10-16 [2]
Red Cross complex Kabul, Afghanistan 2001-10-26 [2]
Al Jazeera office Kabul, Afghanistan 2001-11-13 [2]
Al Jazeera office Baghdad, Iraq 2003-04-08 1 1 [2]
Palestine Hotel Baghdad, Iraq 2003-04-08 2 [2]
July 12, 2007, Baghdad airstrike Baghdad, Iraq 2007-07-12 12-18 AH-64 Apache [3]
Haska Meyna wedding party airstrike Haska Meyna, Afghanistan 2008-07-06 48
United States led air strike on Bir Mahali village Bir Mahali,

Syria

2015-03-30 64
Doctors Without Borders hospital Kunduz, Afghanistan 2015-10-03 22 37 US AC-130 gunship [2]
2017 Mosul airstrike Mosul, Iraq 2017-03-17 290+ Unknown injured

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "The Other Lockerbie". BBC News. 17 April 2000. Retrieved 18 February 2009.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Jon Schwarz (2015-10-07). "A Short History of U.S. Bombing of Civilian Facilities". The Intercept.
  3. ^ "July 12, 2007, Baghdad airstrike". Retrieved 29 August 2021.
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