SYRIA, YEAR 2019: Update on Incidents According to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) Compiled by ACCORD, 23 June 2020
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SYRIA, YEAR 2019: Update on incidents according to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) compiled by ACCORD, 23 June 2020 Number of reported incidents with at least one fatality Number of reported fatalities National borders: GADM, November 2015a; administrative divisions: GADM, November 2015b; in- cident data: ACLED, 20 June 2020; coastlines and inland waters: Smith and Wessel, 1 May 2015 SYRIA, YEAR 2019: UPDATE ON INCIDENTS ACCORDING TO THE ARMED CONFLICT LOCATION & EVENT DATA PROJECT (ACLED) COMPILED BY ACCORD, 23 JUNE 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 13672 1753 5751 violence Development of conflict incidents from 2017 to 2019 2 Battles 2814 1344 8296 Strategic developments 1348 19 37 Methodology 3 Violence against civilians 1167 724 1169 Conflict incidents per province 4 Protests 331 2 14 Riots 25 3 5 Localization of conflict incidents 4 Total 19357 3845 15272 Disclaimer 9 This table is based on data from ACLED (datasets used: ACLED, 20 June 2020). Development of conflict incidents from 2017 to 2019 This graph is based on data from ACLED (datasets used: ACLED, 20 June 2020). 2 SYRIA, YEAR 2019: UPDATE ON INCIDENTS ACCORDING TO THE ARMED CONFLICT LOCATION & EVENT DATA PROJECT (ACLED) COMPILED BY ACCORD, 23 JUNE 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 2019 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 2019 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 2019: UPDATE ON INCIDENTS ACCORDING TO THE ARMED CONFLICT LOCATION & EVENT DATA PROJECT (ACLED) COMPILED BY ACCORD, 23 JUNE 2020 Conflict incidents per province are taken from GADM data which serves as the basis for the maps above. Number of Number of Number of In Al Hasakah, 1247 incidents killing 1044 people were reported. The following Province incidents with incidents fatalities locations were among the affected: Aba Kabirah, Abbaa, Abu Fas, Abu fatalities Hamdah, Abu Rasayn, Abu Rasin, Abu Rusayn, Adlah, Ain Diwar, Al Al Hasakah 1247 299 1044 Asadiyah, Al Jana, Al Jawadiyah, Al Maylibiyah, Al-Ahras, Al-Amirat, Aleppo 2673 537 1657 Al-Arbain, Al-Dahma, Al-Hasakeh, Al-Hasakeh - Al Ghazal, Al-Hasakeh - Al Ar Raqqah 602 205 778 Kallaseh, Al-Hasakeh - Al Mufti, Al-Hasakeh - Al Rusafa, Al-Hasakeh - Al-Aziziyeh, Al-Hasakeh - Ghoweran, Al-Hasakeh - Housh Al-Ba’er, As Suwayda’ 79 34 72 Al-Hasakeh - Msheirfeh, Al-Hasakeh - Salhiyeh, Al-Karameh, Al-Kasra, Damascus 50 29 60 Al-Maabdaa, Al-Majou, Al-Malha, Al-Malikeyyeh, Al-Nasriyah, Al-Sa’da, Dar‘a 435 199 310 Al-Shamsani, Al-Silmasa, Al-Tuwinah, Al-Yarubiyah, Al-Zehiriyeh, Alia, Aluk Dayr Az Zawr 1291 600 2656 Sharkiya, Aluq al Gharbiyah, Amiriyeh, Amuda, Aniq El Hawa, Aradah, Hamah 5245 542 2980 Areesheh, Arshet Ras El Ein, As-Safeh, Asfar Najar, Atamiye, Aziziyeh, Bab al Faraj, Bab al Kheir, Ballujah, Bikaret Elhilaiya, Bir Nuh, Bir Qadim, Brigade Hims 81 53 334 546 Army Base, Daghaim Ajaj, Daoudiyeh, Darbasiyah, Dardara, Dashishah, Idlib 6706 1062 4121 Dwerah, Fadghami, Fakkeh, Faysaliyya, Ghabashiah, Hab Hawa, Hadaj, Lattakia 578 106 842 Halleq, Hamu, Haylah, Hdadiyeh, Hliwah, Hole, Hole Camp, Humaydiah, Quneitra 35 10 19 Jabal Abdulaziz, Jabisah Oil Fields, Jan Tamr, Jan Tamr Gharbi, Jaroudiyah, Rif Dimashq 333 169 399 Jattal, Java, Jazaa, Kashqa, Kashto, Khanik, Kharab Rashak, Kherbit Al khadra, Khirbat Al-Naimah, Khirbet Hammoud, Khrbit Al-Banat, Khweitleh Tartus 2 0 0 Hmud, Kozliyeh, Leylan, Mabrouka, Mabrouka Camp, Madhba’a, Maghloje, Mahmudiyeh, Makhroum, Malha, Manajir, Markada, Mashrafah, Matalla, Mjeibreh, Modan, Mousa Kora, Mubarakiyeh, Muraykiz, Nefkur, Qabr al Localization of conflict incidents Sheikh Hassan, Qahtaniyyah, Qasemiyeh, Qasr Eldib, Qasruk, Qayrawan Amuda, Qotniyeh, Quamishli, Quamishli Airbase, Quraish, Ras Al Ain, Note: The following list is an overview of the incident data included in the ACLED Rashidiyeh, Rashidiyeh Derbasiyeh, Rawya, Rihaniya, Rihaniyet Shamr, dataset. More details are available in the actual dataset (date, location data, event Rmelan, Safa, Salam, Salhiyeh, Semalka Border Crossing, Shadadah, type, involved actors, information sources, etc.). The data’s precision varies among Shakariyah, Shakhat, Shamo, Shara, Soda, Tal Ahmad, Tal Al-Laban, Tal the incidents: a town may represent a region, or the provincial capital may be Anbar, Tal Arqam, Tal Baydar, Tal Baydar Haskeh, Tal Brak, Tal Farfara, Tal used if the precise location of an incident is unkown. In the following list, the names Hmis, Tal Jammeh, Tal Jihan, Tal Khanzir, Tal Mohammad, Tal Shayr, Tal of event locations are taken from ACLED, while the administrative region names Tamer, Tal al Janab, Tall Abbud, Tall Diyab, Tall Hurmuz, Tall Kubaybah, Tall 4 SYRIA, YEAR 2019: UPDATE ON INCIDENTS ACCORDING TO THE ARMED CONFLICT LOCATION & EVENT DATA PROJECT (ACLED) COMPILED BY ACCORD, 23 JUNE 2020 Tawil, Tall Ward Sharqi, Tawileh, Tell Halaf, Tell Qartal, Thahr El Arab, Um Al Ihtaymilat, Iskan, Jabal Azzan, Jalabiyeh, Jalbul, Jamus Wiran, Jandairis, Safir, Um Harmala, Um Hojairah, Um Shu’ayfah, Umm Al-Kayf, Umm Jarablus, Jarez, Jat, Jazraya, Jeb Naassan, Jeineh, Jub al Hamir, Juqali, Al-Khair, Umm Ashba, Umm Hafur, Umm al Asafir, Western Abdel Salam, Juqali Al-Tahtaniyah, Jurayyat, Juwaiq, Kaan Kurk, Kabashin, Kafr Aleppo, Western Alouk, Ya’robiyah, Zaydiyeh Ras El Ein. Kafr Amma, Kafr Antoun, Kafr Dael, Kafr Ghan, Kafr Hamra, Kafr Janna, Kafr Kalbein, Kafr Karmin, Kafr Khasher, Kafr Naha, Kafr Naseh Elatareb, Kafr Noran, Kafr Rum, Kafr Safra, Kafr Shil, Kafr Taal, Kafr Zayt, Kafra, In Aleppo, 2673 incidents killing 1657 people were reported. The following Kafrantin, Kaljibrin, Kassibeh, Kawkabah, Khaderiyah Tahtaniah, Khalsa, locations were among the affected: A’rima, A’wejel, Abad, Abla, Abu Zandin, Khan Al-Asal, Khan Tuman, Khan al-Asal, Kharab Hisaq, Khawari, Khirbat az Abyan Saman, Abzemo, Afrin, Aghtrin, Ain Dara, Ain al Arab, Ain al Arab Air Zuwayn, Kimar, Kirzele, Koran Jandris, Korhyok, Kreidiyeh, Kusniya, Lower Base, Ajil, Al Bab, Al Bughaz, Al Harishah, Al Hussyah, Al Kawukli, Al Kafardali, Ma’btali, Maaret Elartiq, Maarrata, Mahsana, Makbas, Makhala, Khalidiyah, Al Qurt, Al Rafai, Al Salameh, Al Salloum, Al Ziyarah, Al’awasi, Mamali, Mansoura, Mansura, Manyan, Maraanaz, Maratet Um Hosh, Mare’, Al-Alqamiyyeh, Al-Baylonah, Al-Bohouth al-Elmia, Al-Eis, Al-Harsh, Marhamiya, Maryuda, Mashaala, Masikah, Mayasa, Meidan Ekbis, Menagh, Al-Malikeyyeh, Al-Mallah, Al-Qasmiyeh, Al-Rashdeen,