A report by the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) says more than two thousand civilians have been killed by airstrikes since the coalition began their military campaign in Syria.

The report entitled 'The Bloody Price' says that international coalition forces commenced their military campaign against the terrorist group ISIS in Syria on September 23, 2014.

On that day, several airstrikes were carried out on points in Raqqa governorate, such as al Tabaqa Military Airbase and al Lewa’ 93 in Ein Eissa town, while international coalition forces targeted also al Nussra Front in Kafr Daryan village, northern suburbs of Idlib governorate, in airstrikes that resulted in the killing of 12 civilians, including five children and five women.

The report adds that international coalition forces continued their airstrikes on ISIS-held areas, as attacks were concentrated in the governorates of Aleppo, Raqqa, Deir Ez-Zour, and Hasaka, in addition to Homs and Hama governorates to a less extent. international coalition forces never showed an open alignment with one of the parties to the conflict in their attacks.

Fadel Abdul Ghany, chairman of SNHR, said, “The presentation that was held by the United States Central Command in last June on the findings of the investigations regarding the attack incident in al Jina village wasn’t convincing in our eyes, or in anyone’s eyes for that matter, I believe.

"Serious investigations should be launched, and survivors, direct eyewitnesses, and victims’ relatives should be part of it. Confessing to these mistakes and affirming that such mistakes, which the Syrian people believe were deliberate, won’t happen again, as they are still occurring to this day.”

The report contains three accounts that were collected through speaking directly with eyewitnesses, and are not cited from any open sources. In addition, pictures and videos that were published online or sent to SNHR team via e-mail, Skype, or social media were analyzed.

The report sheds light on the toll of international coalition’s operations between September 23, 2014 and September 23, 2017, as no less than 2,286 civilians were killed, including 674 children and 504 women.

Additionally, international coalition forces were responsible for 124 massacres at least, and no less than 157 incidents of attack on vital civilian facilities.

The report highlights that the pattern international coalition forces’ attacks follow has significantly changed since they started in September 2014.

Until the end of 2015, international coalition forces’ attacks were directed, concentrated, and caused less civilian casualties, while the attacks we documented in 2016 and 2017 were indiscriminate and unjustified, and have resulted in the killing of hundreds of civilians, and great destruction to vital civilian facilities.

The report sorts the attacks into three major phases, the third of which from November 2016 to September 23, 2017 were the bloodiest.

The report sheds light on 38 incidents in which international coalition forces targeted civilian areas and vital civilian facilities between October 1, 2016, and September 15, 2017. Of those, 21 resulted in civilian deaths.

The report stresses that disproportionate, indiscriminate bombardment operations constitute an explicit violation of the international humanitarian law.

Also, indiscriminate crimes of murder constitute war crimes. Additionally, the report notes that these attacks have caused collateral damages that involved loss of lives, injuries, and significant damages to civil facilities.

The report calls on the international coalition forces to International coalition forces to respect the international humanitarian law and the customary international law.

Furthermore, the coalition should address the ramifications of all of these violations, and try as much as possible to avoid such incidents in the future.

The report urges the states of the coalition to unequivocally and truly acknowledge that some of the bombardment operations have resulted in the killing of innocent civilians.