List of attacks on civilians attributed to United States government forces
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[]
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Attack | Location | Date | Dead | Injured | Perpetrators | Refs |
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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, | 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[]
- Civilian casualties from U.S. drone strikes
- Civilian casualties during Operation Allied Force
- List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States
- Drone strikes in Yemen
- List of drone strikes in Pakistan
References[]
- ^ "The Other Lockerbie". BBC News. 17 April 2000. Retrieved 18 February 2009.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "July 12, 2007, Baghdad airstrike". Retrieved 29 August 2021.
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- United States military-related lists