SYRIA, YEAR 2018: Update on Incidents According to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) Compiled by ACCORD, 26 February 2020
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SYRIA, YEAR 2018: Update on incidents according to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) compiled by ACCORD, 26 February 2020 Number of reported incidents with at least one fatality Number of reported fatalities National borders: GADM, November 2015a; administrative divisions: GADM, November 2015b; incid- ent data: ACLED, 22 February 2020; coastlines and inland waters: Smith and Wessel, 1 May 2015 SYRIA, YEAR 2018: UPDATE ON INCIDENTS ACCORDING TO THE ARMED CONFLICT LOCATION & EVENT DATA PROJECT (ACLED) COMPILED BY ACCORD, 26 FEBRUARY 2020 Contents Conflict incidents by category Number of Number of reported fatalities 1 Number of Number of Category incidents with at incidents fatalities Number of reported incidents with at least one fatality 1 least one fatality Explosions / Remote Conflict incidents by category 2 12984 2941 11802 violence Development of conflict incidents from 2017 to 2018 2 Battles 4274 2143 16001 Strategic developments 1847 9 16 Methodology 3 Violence against civilians 1188 892 2264 Conflict incidents per province 4 Protests 536 2 2 Riots 15 0 0 Localization of conflict incidents 4 Total 20844 5987 30085 Disclaimer 10 This table is based on data from ACLED (datasets used: ACLED, 22 February 2020). Development of conflict incidents from 2017 to 2018 This graph is based on data from ACLED (datasets used: ACLED, 22 February 2020). 2 SYRIA, YEAR 2018: UPDATE ON INCIDENTS ACCORDING TO THE ARMED CONFLICT LOCATION & EVENT DATA PROJECT (ACLED) COMPILED BY ACCORD, 26 FEBRUARY 2020 Methodology GADM. Incidents that could not be located are ignored. The numbers included in this overview might therefore differ from the original ACLED data. ACLED uses The data used in this report was collected by the Armed Conflict Location & Event varying degrees of geographic precision for the individual incidents, depending Data Project (ACLED). ACLED collects data on reported conflict events in selected on what level of detail is reported. Thus, towns may represent the wider region in African and Asian countries, Syria being among them. ACLED researchers collect which an incident occured, or the provincial capital may be used if only the province event data from a variety of sources and code them by date, location, agent, and is known. Erroneous location data, especially due to identical place names, cannot event type. be fully excluded. Most of the data collected by ACLED is gathered based on publicly available, Incidents comprise the following categories: battles, headquarters or bases es- secondary reports. It may therefore underestimate the volume of events. Fatality tablished, non-violent strategic activities, riots/protests, violence against civilians, data particularly is vulnerable to bias and inaccurate reporting, and ACLED states non-violent transfer of territory, remote violence. For details on these categories, to use the most conservative estimate available. ACLED uses the reports’ context please see to estimate fatalities for events with reported fatalities for which the exact number is unknown (“10” for plural fatalities, “100” if “hundreds” are mentioned, etc.). • ACLED – Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project: Armed Conflict For further details on ACLED and for the full data, see www.acleddata.com and Location and Event Data Project (ACLED) Codebook (2019), 10 April 2019a Raleigh; Linke; Hegre, and Karlsen, 2010. https://www.acleddata.com/wp-content/uploads/dlm_uploads/2017/10/ ACLED_Codebook_2019FINAL_pbl.pdf Based on this data, the Austrian Centre for Country of Origin & Asylum Research and Documentation (ACCORD) compiles updates on conflict incidents and pub- • ACLED – Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project: Armed Conflict lishes them on ecoi.net to offer another access point to the ACLED datasets. Location and Event Data Project (ACLED) User Quick Guide, April 2019b https://www.acleddata.com/wp-content/uploads/dlm_uploads/2019/04/ It is advised to employ extreme caution when using fatality numbers. General-User-Guide_FINAL.pdf Assessments of the security situation should not be based solely on quantitative • ACLED – Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project: FAQs: ACLED Fatality analysis of event data. Methodology, 27 January 2020 https://www.acleddata.com/download/17979/ Please see ACLED’s additional methodological paper for Syria: ACLED, 16 April 2019 Geographic map data is primarily based on GADM, complemented with other sources if necessary. Incidents are mapped to GADM provinces using the provinces in ACLED data. Province names and borders may differ between ACLED and 3 SYRIA, YEAR 2018: UPDATE ON INCIDENTS ACCORDING TO THE ARMED CONFLICT LOCATION & EVENT DATA PROJECT (ACLED) COMPILED BY ACCORD, 26 FEBRUARY 2020 Conflict incidents per province are taken from GADM data which serves as the basis for the maps above. Number of In Al Hasakah, 591 incidents killing 935 people were reported. The following Number of Number of Province incidents with locations were among the affected: A’frah, Abdan, Abu Hamdah, Abu incidents fatalities fatalities Khashab, Ain Diwar, Al Awadat, Al Duwaym, Al Fakka, Al Hajalah, Al Hulw, Al Hasakah 591 218 935 Al Khabrah, Al Maylibiyah, Al Shayb, Al-Atshanah, Al-Fej, Al-Hamra, Aleppo 3606 955 3656 Al-Hasakeh, Al-Hasakeh - Al Mufti, Al-Hasakeh - Al Rusafa, Al-Hasakeh - Ghoweran, Al-Hasakeh - Msheirfeh, Al-Hassu, Al-Malikeyyeh, Al-Sa’da, Ar Raqqah 305 176 312 Al-Shamsani, Al-Suwaydiyah Sharqi, Al-Tibn, Al-Yarubiyah, Al-Zehiriyeh, As Suwayda’ 172 67 575 Alia, Amuda, Aradah, Areesheh, Arisha Camp, Arshet Ras El Ein, Aziziyeh, Damascus 523 240 1313 Azzawi, Bab al Kheir, Ballujah, Daoudiyeh, Darbasiyah, Dashishah, Eastern Dar‘a 1790 453 2105 Hanna, Fadghami, Hadaj, Hajiyah Kabirah, Hilaliyeh, Hole, Humaydah, Dayr Az Zawr 2140 998 7368 Humaydiah, Hussein al Hajalah, Huwayziyah, Jabal Abdulaziz, Jatal, Jazaa, Kawkab, Khatuniya Bahra, Khirab Rashik, Khirbet Mousa, Khrbit Al-Banat, Hamah 3530 345 1658 Khuwaybirah, Mabrouka Camp, Madinah, Maghloje, Makhroum, Malabas, Hims 817 214 771 Manajir, Mansura, Markada, Middle Janabeh, Nammura, Qarrah Chouk Idlib 4531 1148 3733 mountains, Quamishli, Quamishli Airbase, Ras Al Ain, Ras al Ain, Rawya, Lattakia 426 63 367 Rijlat al Hamzah, Safyan, Salhiyeh, Sarajiya, Sayibah, Semalka Border Quneitra 282 32 122 Crossing, Shadadah, Tabaqa, Tal Hmis, Tal Khanzir, Tal Sfuk Border Crossing, Tal Shayr, Tal Tamer, Tall Kubaybah, Tall Sakrah, Tall al-Jayir, Tell Halaf, Rif Dimashq 2122 1073 7146 Turumbah, Zorfafa. Tartus 9 5 24 In Aleppo, 3606 incidents killing 3656 people were reported. The following locations were among the affected: 135th Brigade Army Base, A’rima, A’wejel, Localization of conflict incidents Abad, Abisah, Abla, Abu ’Isa, Abu Darikhah, Abu Hamad, Abu Ka’ab, Abu Rweil, Abu Zandin, Abudan - Marsawa, Abyan Saman, Abzemo, Adamanly, Note: The following list is an overview of the incident data included in the ACLED Afrin, Aghjah Li, Aghtrin, Ahras, Ain Al Arab, Ain Dara, Ain al Arab, Ain al dataset. More details are available in the actual dataset (date, location data, event Arab - Kaniya Kurdan, Ain al Arab Air Base, Ajil, Al Bab, Al Dasimah, Al type, involved actors, information sources, etc.). The data’s precision varies among Fushah, Al Hajaliyeh, Al Khalidiyah, Al Qantara, Al Qarah, Al Safira Military the incidents: a town may represent a region, or the provincial capital may be Base and Defence Factories, Al Salameh, Al Shuqayyif Industrial District, used if the precise location of an incident is unkown. In the following list, the names Al-Bayadah Military Camp, Al-Bohouth al-Elmia, Al-Daq, Al-Eis, Al-Harsh, of event locations are taken from ACLED, while the administrative region names Al-Hoss Plateau, Al-Maizliya, Al-Malikeyyeh, Al-Mallah, Al-Meflseh, 4 SYRIA, YEAR 2018: UPDATE ON INCIDENTS ACCORDING TO THE ARMED CONFLICT LOCATION & EVENT DATA PROJECT (ACLED) COMPILED BY ACCORD, 26 FEBRUARY 2020 Al-Mokambo, Al-Qasmiyeh, Al-Rashadiyah, Al-Rashdeen, Al-Taflah, Hamran, Handarat, Harbal, Haritan, Harjalah, Hassan Kalkawi, Hawa, Al-Wasita, Al-Yalni, Alamdar, Aleppo, Aleppo - Al-Ashrafiyya, Aleppo - Hawzan, Hayamli, Haydar Ubasi, Haykajah, Hayyan, Helubiye, Hesen Dera, Al-Aziziyah, Aleppo - Al-Farafra, Aleppo - Al-Furqan, Aleppo - Al-Ghazali, Hmeira, Hmlak-Hmelek, Hober, Holilo, Hoteh, Hulilu, Hur, Huwair al-Eis, Aleppo - Al-Khaldiya, Aleppo - Al-Layramoun, Aleppo - Al-Mohafaza, Huyulah Qanli, ICARDA Research Facility, Ibbin, Ihtaymilat, Ikidam, Iskan, Aleppo - Al-Nile, Aleppo - Al-Sabeel, Aleppo - Al-Shuhada, Aleppo - Jabal Azzan, Jabal Barsaya, Jabal Kashkadar, Jalamah, Jalbul, Jalma, Al-Zahraa, Aleppo - Andalus, Aleppo - Ba’aiedin, Aleppo - Bustan Al-Basha, Jamilah, Jandairis, Janjeylan, Jaqalli Jum, Jaqmaq Kabir, Jaqmaq Saghira, Aleppo - Bustan Al-Qasr, Aleppo - Central Prison, Aleppo - Fardos, Aleppo - Jarablus, Jarez, Jazraya, Jdideh, Jeb Abyad, Jeb Sultan, Jeineh, Jirah Halab Al-Jadida, Aleppo - Hamadaniyeh, Aleppo - Hameidiyyeh, Aleppo - Airbase, Jubbali, Judaydah, Julqan, Juqali, Juqali Al-Tahtaniyah, Juwaiq, Haydariyeh, Aleppo - International Airport, Aleppo - Jamiliyeh, Aleppo - Kaan Kurk, Kabashin, Kafr Aleppo, Kafr Amma, Kafr Batrah, Kafr Dael, Kafr Jibreen, Aleppo - Kallaseh, Aleppo - Karm al-Jabal, Aleppo - Old Aleppo, Eibesh, Kafr Ghan, Kafr Hamra, Kafr Janna, Kafr Kalbein, Kafr Karmin, Kafr Aleppo - Ramousa, Aleppo - Rasafeh, Aleppo - Saif al-Dawla, Aleppo - Khasher, Kafr Miz, Kafr Nabu, Kafr Naha, Kafr Naseh Elatareb, Kafr Naseh Sakhour, Aleppo - Sha’ar, Aleppo - Shahabaa, Aleppo - Sheikh Maqsoud, Tal