Emily Tripp
@emilytripp.bsky.social
Director @airwars.bsky.social airwars.org
For more details on the tribunal, see Airwars' five takeaways from the process airwars.org/how-does-the...
How does the UK determine if it killed a civilian? Five takeaways from Airwars’ tribunal against the MoD
Landmark tribunal found UK's lack of published civilian harm policies may
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Secrecy around UK military civilian harm ‘risks undermining public confidence’ @theguardian.com reporting on the conclusion of Airwars' freedom of information tribunal against the Ministry of Defence www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Secrecy around UK military civilian harm ‘risks undermining public confidence’
Tribunal ruling follows Airwars investigation into Britain’s conduct in bombing campaign against IS in Syria and Iraq
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📢New blog by @emilytripp.bsky.social - Civilian Harm, Accountability, and the Battle for Truth This failure on the part of states to invest in understanding where and how civilians are being harmed is one of the greatest threats to civilian protection... 🔗 www.cips-cepi.ca/2026/01/06/c...
Important that civilian harm from the strikes does not go unreported. Great work by @airwars.bsky.social and @nickturse.bsky.social in the piece here, but the fact SOUTHCOM is unable to cope with the number of reports is one unfortunately predictable outcome of gutting the US efforts of CHMR 1/2
Nick Turse@nickturse.bsky.social · 7mo agoEXCLUSIVE: U.S. Southern Command is unable to cope with the volume of civilian casualty reports stemming from the military mission to abduct Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro theintercept.com/2026/01/13/c...
🧵NEW: 'Into the jaws of death' An Airwars short film visualises the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid process, showing how the system - from design to execution - made deaths and injuries inevitable www.youtube.com/watch?v=drm5... [1/5]
The widely reported death toll of 87 assumes the death of a survivor on October 27th. While the Mexican Navy called off the active search, there has been no official statement of presumption of death by US or Mexican authorities. airwars.org/civilian-cas... x.com/DOWResponse/...
USMAR251027a – October 27, 2025
Code: USMAR251027a Status: publish Incident Date Type: date Incident Date: 2025-10-27 Incident Local Time Of Day: afternoon Location Name Local: Location Name: Eastern Pacific Region: Eastern Pacific...
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Our interactive tracker has been updated to include this latest strike which reportedly killed 4 people. We have now recorded 22 incidents in which 86 people were declared dead. You can view the tool and specific incidents here: airwars.org/conflict/u-s... x.com/Southcom/sta...
3/ While the Trump administration argues the strikes are justified to stop "narco-terrorism," the UN has said they violate international law. Airwars will update the page throughout the campaign, providing a resource for those researching the conflict. airwars.org/conflict/u-s...
U.S. Military in Latin America and the Caribbean
Airwars tracking of U.S. military strikes against alleged 'narco-terrorists' in small boats
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2/ The page contains both incidents fully researched by Airwars' civilian harm team and disclosed strikes still under assessment. The chart at the top of the page allows users to navigate through the campaign and select individual incidents to view in greater detail.
🧵NEW: Airwars has published an interactive tool tracking all publicly declared U.S. strikes targeting small boats in the Caribbean & Pacific. This resource aims to aid public understanding & enhance transparency surrounding those killed in the campaign. airwars.org/conflict/u-s...
Thrilled to moderate a crucial panel this Monday in London! We'll cover how OSINT techniques and tools are transforming justice for human rights violations 🔎⚖️ An expert panel includes leaders from @airwars.bsky.social @bellingcat.com and more! Get your ticket: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/panel-disc...
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1/ Since the first Gaza Humanitarian Foundation site opened on May 27, Airwars has documented more than 200 allegations of civilian harm in the vicinity of aid sites. So far, we’ve published 17 of these cases: tinyurl.com/3f9yuvkw
2/ In October 2023, we had already found the number of journalists killed to be comparable to the average number of media workers killed in conflict settings globally per year over the last 30 years. gaza-patterns-harm.airwars.org#civilian-env...
Airwars Gaza Patterns of Harm
Airwars monitors, assesses and preserves civilian casualty claims resulting from explosive weapons use in multiple conflicts.
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1/ Anas al-Sharif’s reporting was pivotal in showing the world the reality of the war in Gaza. Our documentation teams have relied on Anas and journalists all over Gaza as they visit strike sites, interview family members, and capture critical testimony. airwars.org/conflict/isr...
1/ NEW: As the U.S. appears on the brink of another war, Airwars reveals dangerous precedent for civilians set by Trump’s Yemen campaign trump-yemen.airwars.org/operation-ro...
Trump nearly doubled U.S. civilian casualty toll in Yemen | Airwars
The Trump administration killed almost as many civilians in Yemen in 52 days as the previous 23 years of U.S. action
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1/ Our new investigation on unprecedented civilian harm caused by the U.S.’ latest campaign in Yemen covered by The Guardian www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Trump’s Yemen bombings killed nearly as many civilians as 23 previous years of US attacks, analysis shows
Monitoring group says high death rate in two months indicates change in US policy that could affect Iran
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Collections A new feature which allows us to bring together all the different parts of our work on a particular subject. Our first collection is about patterns of civilian harm under the new Trump administration. airwars.org/collection/
Conflicts we monitor From Gaza to Ukraine, from Yemen to Somalia, it's now easier to see where our teams document some of the world's most deadly wars, and to see our record of the civilians killed in them. airwars.org/conflict/
Today we launch our redesigned website - a comprehensive resource for civilian harm documentation and accountability. Explore some elements of the new site (🧵): airwars.org
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The Civilian Harm Watchdog
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The New Yorker's Madeleine Baran and @airwars.bsky.social's @emilytripp.bsky.social at #LoganSymposium2025 discuss the 2006 massacre at Haditha and the four-year investigation for the "In the Dark" podcast. Baron: "This was something done in the name of the U.S. government."
The Civilian Protection Monitor is the first public monitoring dashboard measuring state policy and practice on civilian harm mitigation and response, based on analysis of open source information.
*Reminder: Event announcement* In collaboration with @paxforpeace.nl, we're thrilled to announce the launch of the Civilian Protection Monitor: Join us at our online launch on Tuesday 15th April at 4-5.30pm CET by registering through this form: lnkd.in/eiWKVRpZ.
6/ “Even when comparing like with like: in the first week of Biden's bombing campaign in Yemen there were no civilian casualties recorded.” - @ionacraig.com, Yemen Data Project. Read the full article here: trump-yemen.airwars.org
What the chats signal about Trump's bombing campaign in Yemen
Everyone talked about the leaked Yemen attack plans. But who was killed in the strikes authorised?
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5/ In one of the deadliest civilian harm incidents on the first day of Trump’s strikes, at least five civilians were reported killed in two houses- including a woman and four children. airwars.org/civilian-cas...
USYEM250315b – March 15, 2025
At least five civilians, a woman and four children, were reported killed and at least 10 others, including five children and women, were injured by alleged US airstrikes on the home of the al-Ruqa’a f...
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4/ Initial indications suggest the Trump administration is choosing targets that pose a more direct risk to civilians and may indicate a higher tolerance to the risk of civilian harm
3/ Airwars analysed all public allegations of civilian harm in Yemen, and conducted a comparative review of hundreds of official statements released under the current Trump and previous Biden administrations.
2/ On March 15th Trump resumed U.S. strikes on Houthi militants in Yemen, after the Biden administration's 2024 campaign. Trump called Biden's response "pathetically weak," saying the previous administration failed to deter Houthi attacks in the Red Sea. x.com/POTUS/status...
President Donald J. Trump on X: ""To all Houthi terrorists, YOUR TIME IS UP..." –President Donald J. Trump https://t.co/P4qwgyDs8c" / X
"To all Houthi terrorists, YOUR TIME IS UP..." –President Donald J. Trump https://t.co/P4qwgyDs8c
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1/ NEW: You read about the leaked Signal group between top U.S. national security leaders, but what happened in the strikes they authorised? And what does this say about the new administration’s approach to warfare? trump-yemen.airwars.org
What the chats signal about Trump's bombing campaign in Yemen
Everyone talked about the leaked Yemen attack plans. But who was killed in the strikes authorised?
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You can see Airwars' short film, The Killings They Tweeted, here: idf-tweets-gaza.airwars.org
The Killings They Tweeted
In the past year the Israeli military has posted on social media footage of more than 1,300 strikes in Gaza. But who was actually killed?
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Al-Jazeera English's Fault Lines also won The Peter Jennings Award for their documentary "The Night Won’t End" - revealing the human cost of the war in Gaza - in which Airwars Director @emilytripp.bsky.social and NYT's @sanjanamv.bsky.social were interviewed.
